Designing Remedial Course in English for Engineering Students from Non-English Medium Background

Abstract

Engineering graduates in India belong to different fields of specialization. The prerequisites of the professions and the specificity of language functions required for a study of English offered at Engineering Colleges. The students who join professional courses like Engineering, half of the students come from Non-English medium Instruction. Careful analyses of these students’ performance by diagnosing the areas of difficulty will help to plan and design a remedial course to teach the basics to communication skills in order to enhance and present according to their contexts and their academics. The engineering colleges in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have become mushrooms without maintaining any quality which should be suited to the industry requirement. The intention in preparing the paper is to point out what is lacking in engineering students and they are suited to the industry, their weaknesses, stumbling blocks, and measure to improve by suggesting with a remedial course in order to implement in engineering studies at the beginning of their courses.