English Language Study

This paper reports a study of the language needs of the Professional students. In particular, the study seeks to examine the significant differences if any in the performance of the students in vocabulary, grammar, cohesion and organization components in English due to variation in Medium of Instruction at Intermediate. Findings of the study also shed light on the specific set of competencies for teachers of English at Engineering colleges in the state of Andhra Pradesh and informs the strategies for the development of writing skills components of the students.

Key Words: Grammatical components, strategies, English Language Teaching, Communication Skills

Introduction:

English is one of the most important Global language. Most of the international

The main objective of the present study is to ‘develop writing skills in the context of teaching English as a second language for professional course students’. Professionals at JNTU asserted that ‘knowledge of the traditional ‘grammar form’ and ‘communicative function’ are both necessary ingredients for success in the scientific-technical

In phase I Pre-test was conducted, Phase II Post-test was conducted and Phase III questionnaire was used to elicit data from the teachers who were teaching professional students. Findings of the study helped to shed light on an important facet of developing writing skills in the context of teaching English as a second language for professional course students.

Review:

Vivian Zamel (1983) looked at the composing processes of six advanced ESL students. Among the six, there were both skilled and unskilled writers. Zamel found that the least skilled writer in her study, like native-English speaking counterparts, ‘paused so often and between such short chunks of discourse that the overall relationships between ideas seemed to suffer’. She concludes that some composing problems transcend language factors and hence, are shared by both native and non-native English speakers.

Methodology:

This section introduces data about the profile of the respondents involved in the research, community of the respondents and the influence of these on the performance of the students in vocabulary, grammar, cohesion and organization components of English.