Need for CLT Teaching and Developing a CLT approach for General English Engineering Students

Aim of this paper is to reveal the need of CLT teaching and developing an approach to for teaching English for engineering curriculum. This research is divided in two parts, first part deals with the relevance of CLT in engineering and the second part deals with the teacher’s attitude towards CLT based teaching for engineering students. For this purpose, 80 students were selected from Science and Art University in Yazd. 100 students were selected randomly belonging to different field of engineering course. A pre- test was taken and nearly 80 students were selected with basic knowledge of English. The students were divided into two groups a control group and an experimental group. Control group was worked traditionally and the experimental group was taught on taken English communication in consideration the book which was used was Top Notch along with the related films. The treatment went on for 15 weeks, each week they had class for four hours. After 15 weeks a post test was conducted and collected data was analyzed using SPSS. The second part of the research dealt with teacher’s attitude about these classes. For this purpose, 35 teachers were interviewed. The data was collected and analyzed to check to what extend the teachers agree with this approach. The results showed that this can be a developing step and help the students to use English language in conversations and learn communication in English instead of routine grammar and readings with GTM method, students preferred communicating than translation. Regarding the teacher’s attitude, majority of the teachers agreed and had a view that it can help the students and can develop their qualification skills

Keywords:

communicative teaching , general English , communication , strategy , EFL teachers