P = ELT + ECC

by Ms. Anjali Thakur, Dharmsinh Desai University, Nadiad – India.

English language teaching in the professional institutes is subordinated and substandard, so are the skill acquired by the passing out students. The NKC found the quality of Engineering graduates as ‘unemployable’, so, it recommends ‘multiple skill development’ at large and proposed ‘qualitative transformation in engineering education’, which is possible only if the English language teaching in these institutes be given a new direction and approached with an Andragogical method of English Language Teaching (ELT) and English Communication Competency (ECC) development, combining these two will definitely result in English Language proficiency. So the key for Professional students as well as institutes to develop the proficiency does not lay in the traditional ELT methods and approaches like AVM, SLT, CLT, etc. etc. but in the experiential classroom treatment and discovery based learning or learn by doing it. The experience and research work of one decade with the engineering Institute and various English Language and Communication Competency experiments has compelled the writers to conclude that the master key for proficiency (which is not only of English Language, but the wholistic one) lies in the following equation: (more…)