LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:5 May 2020
ISSN 1930-2940

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Exploring the Pedagogical Needs of English of Engineering Students

Priyanka Jain, Research Scholar

Introduction

The twenty first century has transported new innovative teaching methodologies to make teaching student centric. There was a time when the process of learning a language destined understanding a large number of highly multifarious grammatical rules. The growing interest in communicative rather than linguistic competence, and in communicative performance ensured many theories of language learning. In these theories consequently, there has been a switch of emphasis from content" which normally meant grammar and lexis, to "objectives". These objectives are generally based on the needs of the learner. Van Ek (1976) explains the situation by saying that language learning objectives must be geared towards learners' needs, and that they should specify the following components:

1. The situations in which the foreign language will be used, including the topics to be dealt with;
2. The language activities in which the learner will engage;
3. The language functions which the learner will fulfil;
4. What the learner will be able to do with respect to each topic;
5. The general notions which the learner will be able to handle;
6. The specific notions which the learner will be able to handle;
7. The language forms which the learner will be able to use;
8. The degree of skill with which the learner will be able to perform.

Language learners need languages for professional and work related purposes. This has given considerable space to ESP which plays a major role in providing need based English teaching programmes. It focuses mainly on the questions tangled in scheming languages teaching programmes.

Definition and Characteristics of ESP

The term ESP stands for English for specific purposes. It is a field of linguistic study that addresses the immediate and very specific needs of students for a target language required for academic or professional purposes. It is a subdivision of the language for specific purposes (LSP), which is defined as "... the area of investigation and practice in the development of language programs for people who need a language to meet a foreseeable range of needs. communicative ". Therefore, communicative competence is a very significant issue in ESP. ESP has a number of features that differ from general English. Dudely-Evans and St. John offered a modified definition of absolute and variable characteristics of ESP:

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