ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES: ITS MEANING AND IMPORTANCE IN PRESENT INDIAN SCENARIO

Teaching process in India to some extent still depends upon conventional objectives of passing the examination and getting jobs according to the academic achievements in the form of grades and percentage. Students focus more on syllabus contents and get less time to concentrate on expanding their knowledge outside syllabus. Same thing happens in case of English learning also. Students concentrate more on learning answers to the questions provided to them by their teachers and grammar exercises done in the class. The obvious result is though they score very high in their subject but when it comes to using the knowledge they are complete failure. They lack appropriate words to convey their message in their work place. My paper deals with same issue and also with the importance of English for specific Purposes in present scenario.

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