Augmenting Employability Skills by Integrating English as Communicative Language with Special Reference to COVID-19 by using ANOVA

ABSTRACT

As a matter of fact the English language is considered as the language of global commerce, the role and outcomes of English language provision in English-medium higher education institutions in the Indian fronts and remained central to any discussion on graduate profile and the employability of graduates in the global marketplace. This present study entails its direction toward the learning process of English language after the completion of graduation and post-graduation in the crucial times of COVID-19, where the most of the educational and training institutes were running in online mode. Many of the job aspirants use to learn English from the private English learning centers, who are having different methodologies for teaching the language, but presently this scenario has changed to online mode of training. Using a mixed methods approach, data was gathered through telephone interviews, student workplace simulations and employer focus groups. Findings of the study focus on the increase in employability skills during pandemic period, channeled through English as a second or additional language, becoming confident, gaining knowledgeable, etc. © The Electrochemical Society