LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 17:1 January 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Employability Skills as an Integral Part of the ESL Curriculum

N. Lakshmana Perumal and P. M. Usharani, Ph.D.

Abstract

The graduates who pass out from the portals of educational institutions are often found wanting in their abilities to meet the requirements of the industries/organizations. Though these learners undergo a course in English for 12 to 14 years, they are not able to cope with the industrial requirements/organizational demands. The present system does not categorically provide opportunities to the learners to master employability skills. The authors after having made a Needs Analysis Survey requiring responses under a multi-skill set decided to conduct another survey based on the recommendations of National Network of Business and Industry Associations, (NNBIA 2014) and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network (STEMNET 2014). The feedback thus obtained was classified under three main strands, namely, Communication Skills, Personal Skills and Managerial Skills. The authors had also consulted the NASSCOM study on the Employability Training Programme after having derived a broad spectrum of educational objectives and instructional objectives, the content outline was decided upon and the classroom methodology was in place. Procedures on formative and summative valuation were also finalized and presented. The inputs thus arrived can ideally form part of the ESL curriculum which can be incorporated for adoption and effective delivery and dissemination.

Keywords: Objectives, Communication Skill, Training, Analysis, Employability.

Introduction

Of late, a lot of discontentment among the stakeholders, (teachers, students, educational managers and administrators, employers, employees, proactive public citizens and others who are directly or indirectly involved in the business of education) is reported. The major complaints being the successful engineering graduates are not able to cope with the demands of ‘on the job requirements’ though they may have had academically a sound record, there have been complaints about the absence of non-scholastic abilities in these graduates, to be more specific, employability skills. The scholastic abilities and the non-scholastic traits make a graduate a rounded personality to meet on the job requirements.

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N. Lakshmana Perumal
Department of English
Valliammai Engineering College
Kattankulathur
Chennai 603203
Tamil Nadu
India
anirath1234@gmail.com

P. M. Usharani, Ph.D.
Department of English
B.S.Abdur Rahman University
Vandalur
Chennai, 600048
Tamil Nadu
India
pmusharani4@gmail.com
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