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CD to promote English language skills

FOR BETTER JOBS: Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy (centre) releasing the EnglishLab software CD at the Tamil Nadu College of Engineering in the city.

COIMBATORE: It is imperative to concentrate on developing English language skills of students in order to make them fit for survival in the age of Information Technology, Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy said here recently.

Releasing the EnglishLab software at the Tamil Nadu College of Engineering, he said that supplementary materials like computer software should be made available to students in addition to printed matter so that they could get varieties in learning material.

The package developed by Wisdomsoft, an educational software developing company in Chidambaram, is designed and packaged specially by linguists for school children. It contains exercises for listening comprehension, reading comprehension, model and fast reading, punctuation, grammar, etc.

The Minister lamented that most of the students who studied in Tamil medium had to switch over to English as the medium of instruction when they went for higher studies. “It is not enough for them to know Shakespeare and other forms of literature which they can memorise. They should be taught to speak and write properly.”

He also extolled the virtues of making use of technology for making students learn in a fun way method, instead of the conventional chalk and talk method. Rural Industries Minister Pongalur N. Palanisamy said that students belonging to Tamil Nadu had an edge over others in that they followed the two language formula instead of three languages. This made them proficient in Tamil and English. Vice-Chancellor of Anna University, Coimbatore, R. Radhakrishnan, said English knowledge and communicative skills were very essential for youth in the context of globalisation. He wanted technology to be exploited for easy and fast learning.

Chairman of Park Group of Institutions P.V. Ravi said students from rural background did not get a chance at good job opportunities due to lack of English knowledge.

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