Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
Year : 2014, Volume : 4, Issue : 5
First page : ( 66) Last page : ( 72)
Online ISSN : 2249-7315.

Role of Communication Skills Laboratory in Empowering the Communicative Competence in Engineering Students

Dr. Rai Asha

Technocrats Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Online published on 7 May, 2014.

Abstract

Scientists and engineers may be technically brilliant and creative, but unless they have communicative skills, their technical skills will be unnoticed. Today's engineer has to communicate with more number of his/her counterparts across the globe and has to travel to many continents and work away from their home country. So developing communication skills has become the need of the hour. “Engineering English” has been growing its prominence everywhere and the professional students of science and technology need to acquire these skills according to the global demands of the present century. As a result many technical universities have introduced English Language Communication Skills Laboratory in its curriculum. It acts as a platform for learning, practicing and producing language skills through interactive lessons. The present paper, in this context, highlights the importance, objectives and syllabus of English communication lab. Besides, the paper expressed a few barriers and some useful recommendations to overcome these barriers also.

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