LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 19:11 November 2019
ISSN 1930-2940

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Relevance of Listening and Speaking Skills for Engineering
Students in Their Professional Career

Katta Jan Reddy

Abstract

Communication is a fundamental element of people’s life. It became an accomplishment in every business. An aspirant can aspire for goals and achieve goals when he/she has a good command over communication skills. The central idea of communication is to convey clearly and unambiguously. Communication becomes effective and successful only when the beneficiary gets the similar message as preferred by the sender. Communication includes the basic four skills viz. listening, speaking, reading, and writing. English being a universal language, communicating easily in English has become the most requisite for those who seek to shine well in the professional as well as academic domain. Engineering is one of the leading fields of learning in the world and. But it is experiential; though the students are technically superior they are in dire need of effective communication skills which decide their job opportunity in MNCs. The focus of this research paper is on listening as receptive skill and speaking as productive skill, which are simultaneously used in the process of communication. The researcher is a staff in Engineering College teaching Communication Skills. Thus, the researcher was instigated to find the factors responsible for their poor communication and discussed its importance and types of listening and speaking skills.

Keywords: Importance of Listening - Types of Listening - Listening Skills and an Engineer Listening for an employee - Importance of Speaking - Speaking skills for a Student and employee

Introduction

Communication has become the input to conquest in every organization. An individual cannot be winning and reach his goals if he does not possess good communication skills. On the other hand, an aspirant cannot survive without the adeptness of these skills. The main idea of communication is to express any content coherently and cohesively. Communication becomes effective and successful only when the recipient gets the same message as desired by the sender. In modern days, effective communication plays a very high-flying role in the life of professional engineers. Communication is an essential part of people’s life. Active or passive, verbal or nonverbal, written or oral, intentional or unintentional, communication is needed everywhere, whatever we do. We can achieve many of our goals and destinations through communication. The advancement of science and technology has witnessed a sea-change in the field of communication. Therefore, effective communication is needed for proper exchange of information. A small misunderstanding may cause problems and hindrances in the communication process. People have a tendency to commune with others. Whether specialized or own the success of any endeavor depends on the potentiality of his/her communication. According to Keith Davis, “Communication is the transfer of information and understanding from one person to another.” To quote Bartol and Martin, “Communication is the exchange of messages between people for the purpose of achieving common meanings.”

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Katta Jan Reddy
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Guru Nanak Institutions Technical Campus
Hyderabad 501506, Telangana
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