Communication skills are significant to have for a student in any field. For engineering students, being students of multidisciplinary field, communication competence is the asset through which they can gain and depart their knowledge and communicate their unique ideas to the world. The major source for students to improve their communication skills is their syllabus. Language needs analysis/assessment is the process of determining the needs for which a learner or group of learners requires a language and arranging the needs according to priorities. Needs analysis is also a part of curriculum development and is normally required before syllabus can be developed for language teaching. The inclusion of needs analysis in second language curriculum development began in earnest in 1960s as language programs started emphasizing English for specific purposes instruction. But GTU has recently changed the old syllabus of English for engineering students. Researcher has reviewed old syllabus of GTU and existing syllabus of GTU. From this study, researcher has found that the existing syllabus of GTU is not helpful for the students to improve their communication skills. In this research, researcher has tried to study the communication competence of such students and also studied their syllabus. The researcher has implemented the Prototype syllabus and checked the effects of it on students' level of communication skills. Researcher has checked the level of communication competence of students through pre-test and post-test. Researcher has tried to prepare a prototype syllabus in order to help technical students of Alpha College to learn and enhance communication skills. Through the quantitative analysis of their marks in the test, researcher has found that the students are still in a need to improve communication skills. The Prototype syllabus designed by the researcher is partly helpful to students to improve their communication skills.
Impact Factor
2022: 6.012
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