Practices of English for Specific Purposes at Institute of Agriculture
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Abstract
This research is a study of "Practices of English For Specific Purposes At
Institute of Agricultureā. 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.