ENGLISH AS A WORLD LANGUAGE AND ITS IMPORTANCE

Abstract

This paper aims to present the importance and requirement of the use of English in fostering and catering to the development of the technical competency and communicative skills of the students of engineering. It also draws a survey of the different methodologies adopted to meet the growing requirement of soft skills not only in academic institutions but also beyond it. This paper also throws a flood of light on the change in attitude of the students who are expected to be able technocrats in mere future. It also objectifies the importance of (LSRW), which is the Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing skills. The extent and importance of the English language today are such as to make it reasonable to ask whether we cannot attempt an intelligent speculation as to the probable position which it will occupy in the future. From a language spoken only by a million and half of people towards the close of the eleventh century it rose to be the language of five and a half millions by 1700. From Eighteenth century onward, English began to spread outside England and now it is spoken by men and women in the different parts of the world. English is the second language in Europe, Russia being the first from the point of view of numerical strength. This paper throws a flood of light on the importance of English language in developing literature and various other literary forms that we use in today’s world. The soft skill, which is the need of the hour has gained widespread currency and momentum in the 21st century life of the people. The role of Group Discussion, Debate, interviews, the different corporate etiquettes have become popular owing to the gradual development of English language. English language has achieved importance for the students to meet with multifarious challenges and goals in their professional as well as personals fields. It also focuses on the fact that emotional intelligence as an effective soft skill is the growing demand of the people in today’s professional world.