Role of Language Proficiency in Enhancing Competency of Engineering Students

Abstract

In today s job market especially for engineers knowing how to talk about your work clearly newlineand confidently in English can matter almost as much as knowing how to do it. Over the newlineyears, I have noticed that students from Tier II cities often walk into the classroom with newlinestrong technical potential but limited opportunities to practice spoken English in any real newlinesense. This study looks at how their English-speaking skills can be nudged not always in a newlinelinear way from very basic (A1) toward more advanced levels (up to C2), as framed by the newlineCEFR. newlineThe motivation did not come from a textbook or a policy paper; it came from the classroom. newlineAfter more than ten years of teaching, I kept running into the same roadblocks: students newlinestuck in passive, exam-oriented learning habits, classrooms that discouraged risk-taking in newlinespeech, and a general absence of spaces where they could use English in authentic, lowpressure newlinesituations. So, rather than reinvent the wheel, the research focused on practical newlinepedagogical strategies some structured, others more experimental that might fit into this newlinekind of context. newlineWhat seems to be emerging is not just a list of what works, but also an understanding of newline