Pedagogy of Communicative and Technical English for Engineering Students at Tertiary Level: A Case Study in Bangladesh

Abstract

Pedagogy refers to the manner and exercise of teaching, emphasizing an academic subject or theoretical concept. This paper explored the Pedagogy of Communicative and Technical English for Engineering Students at the Tertiary Level in Bangladesh. Furthermore, this paper investigated to demonstrate the holes between students’ existing level of competence and intended needs. This study imitated the quantitative approach to collect data using questionnaires. Beneath the simple stratified sampling method, the study collected data from 52 undergraduate and graduate engineering students and 12 ESL/EFL instructors from several government engineering universities in Bangladesh. This study’s findings disclosed a deficiency of practical communicative skills in engineering students. The findings also addressed the lack of engineering students in Technical English. In addition, the offered courses were not satisfactorily meeting the students’ demands. Furthermore, the class conducting approaches were inadequate to correspond to engineering students' needs. Considering the findings, this study formed a few suggestions to diminish the holes in the engineering students’ existing and target needs of communicative and Technical English.