Objectives of Teaching Technical English in Engineering Colleges

Abstract

The present thesis “A Case Study and Analysis of Course-Content, Materials And ESP Curriculum Design in Teaching Technical English and Communicative Skills in Select Engineering Colleges” is an attempt at pointing out some of the much-overlooked lacunae that exist in the pedagogy of English at the Engineering level; four State Universities have been taken for research; two of them are State managed Universities and two are privately managed Deemed Universities.  They are : Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (Kakinada); Koneru Lakshmaiah University and Vignan University, Guntur.  The study also aims to critique the pedagogy of Technical English at the Engineering level with specific reference to the objectives of teaching/learning English. The study is concerned with the practice of teaching and its productive results, rather than the ideology of teaching English.  It also makes an attempt at suggesting measures to better the existing conditions.