A PAPER ON THE ENGLISH FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS COURSE BASED ON NEEDS ANALYSIS IN ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Globalization and Industrialization has put great demands on the engineers, they require good academic skills in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. All India Council for Technical Education constituted in 1945 has set criteria for engineering programs to meet the global standard for engineers. The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of the needs analysis to develop a course, English for Engineering Students. A needs analysis through survey questionnaire was done with engineers at the workplace. The data was gathered to get credibility to serve for ESP course development