Question

Requirements of advanced communication skills lab

Answer 1

The introduction of the Advanced Communication Skills Lab is considered essential at 3rd year level. At this stage, the students need to prepare themselves for their careers which may require them to listen to, read, speak and write in English both for their professional and interpersonal communication in the globalised context.

The proposed course should be a laboratory course to enable students to use ‘good’ English and perform the following:

Gather ideas and information, to organise ideas relevantly and coherently.
Engage in debates.
Participate in group discussions.
Face interviews.
Write project/research reports/technical reports.
Make oral presentations.
Write formal letters.
Transfer information from non-verbal to verbal texts and vice versa.
To take part in social and professional communication.
Objectives:

This Lab focuses on using multi-media instruction for language development to meet the following targets:

To improve the students’ fluency in English, through a well-developed vocabulary and enable them to listen to English spoken at normal conversational speed by educated English speakers and respond appropriately in different socio-cultural and professional contexts.
Further, they would be required to communicate their ideas relevantly and coherently in writing.
To prepare all the students for their placements.