Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

K. Yasaswini chowdary ¹, G. Vanaja Reddy ¹

Affiliations
1 H&S, HITAM, Hyderabad, IN

Abstract

Each year teachers encounter learners with distinct personalities, with diverse temperaments (as learners may come from different pockets of a country), and with high aspirations. Meeting these demands may throw a challenge to the teaching community. In this volatile environment teacher has to constantly reinvent new approaches of teaching and redesign methods of teaching, to help the learner. Hence it is being impractical to meet by the traditional methods. Further, the tradition has also shifted from a restricted classroom to virtual classroom, physical teacher to a virtual teacher. Widespread use of technology has led to revolutionary changes in the process of language acquisition .Especially, computer assisted language learning (CALL) acts as a juggler in the hands of a graduate learner. CALL offers innumerable opportunities to learn beyond the class room environment. . This paper focuses on the Inevitability of Internet - based Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) for self-learners of Engineering in the global age. This paper also examines the expeditious acquisition of language by using CALL in contrast with the conventional classroom setting.

Keywords

CALL, Self-Learning, Engineering, Approaches.

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K. Yasaswini Chowdary ¹, R. Umamaheswara Singh ¹, G. Vanaja Reddy ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Humanities and Sciences, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad, IN

Abstract

Our University, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University of Hyderabad (JNTUH) gives admission into engineering through a common entrance test with a focus on Mathematics, Physics and chemistry. So intermediate colleges are teaching by giving importance to these subjects and the related concepts. Even in these concepts they are teaching but not training them. In the knowledge gained by the students only the output is seen but not the outcome. The noble profession of teaching and learning has deteriorated to the level of consumerisation,where the learners are treated as mere buyers of services. This scenario gave green signal for big corporate giants to enter in to the market of education; they brought its side effects too along with them. Languages are not given their allocated instructional hours and the logic of reasoning is compromised in science subjects by encouraging only rote learning. The result of this compromise is seen in professional courses. As a result students are unable to meet curricular needs of the profession they have chosen. In order to address these gaps, we at our college have designed bridge course for English and Mathematics. The present paper focuses on the success of the course adopted at the entry level for the graduates of engineering and how it improved the academic performance of the learners.

Keywords

Bridge Course, Engineering Graduates, English, Mathematics, Learning to Learn.

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