Practices of English for Specific Purposes at Institute of Agriculture

Abstract

This research is a study of "Practices of English For Specific Purposes At Institute of Agriculture”. This study aimed to find out how important the English language for the students of agriculture has and also try to find out its relevancy, advantages, and weaknesses in technical writing. It also tries to throw light on the particular works in comparison to others for which the necessity of English always strikes. This study was carried out using both the primary and secondary sources of data. All the data were collected through questionnaires. For the primary source of data the researcher selected Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science Campus of Chitwan especially post graduate students. The research selected the students from the first semester (who had just finished their first semester exam) and from the third semester, the numbers of respondents were around 35/35 from the each semester. From the study it has been found that the respondents need English in almost each of their works. Where the knowledge of English becomes a must for them is in teaching learning activities, communicating with the person of different fields, presenting/attending seminars, meetings, presenting country profiles, writing reports, proposals, seminar papers, and so on. This study mainly includes four chapters. The first chapter introduces the study which consists of general background, review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter mainly concerns with the methodology used in the study: the source of data, sampling procedure, tools of data collection and limitations of the study. Likewise, the third chapter of the study comprises analysis and interpretation of the data. The fourth chapter introduces the product of the analysis and interpretation of the data, i.e. findings of the study and recommendations on the basis of findings. The final section presents the references and appendices which are very much important for the validation of the research.