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ENGLISH IN COMMUNICATION SKILLS Vishali

Trainer of Soft Skills, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India

Abstract Communication skill is one the trait that one requires to convey his or her ideas in effective manner to the other person. Communication skills is one the interpersonal skill that is required by every person to bring clarity in one’s thoughts. To be a good communicator one also requires number of traits such listening skills, speaking skills, writing and skills of understanding one’s perspective. In today’s competitive world, requirement of communication skills is of utmost importance With advent of Globalisation, importance of learning communication has become more vital as nations have become open to do trade with companies from different nationalities. No company in the world wants to continue its business at local level therefore its necessary to learn English to become good communicator at every level. In this era of competition, a person is known to be a good communicator if one is good in speaking English. Even the intelligence of a person is said to be good if a person knows how to convey his or her thoughts in effective English. Nowadays English is one of the most important language is almost all the countries of the world. This paper focuses on importance of English in communication skills at various levels. Keywords:English, communication, globalisation

Introduction

English language plays a very major role in development of career at

national or international level. If one has to develop career at national

level then its necessary for the person to learn English and its also very

vital to speak English in such a manner that it is understood by the other

person. When schooling begins, a child is usually taught basics of English in

starting and other native languages are taught after English. The aim of

teaching English at primary level is to attain basic proficiency, as is

required in natural language and developing language as a medium of

gaining more knowledge in coming future. For example China is one of the

country that is known for using Chinese as its official language and this

country is not following the trend of adopting English as national language

but it has been observed that English has become a mandatory subject

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from primary level in china since 2003( Multiling.Ed.6,1(2016)). This

example clearly shows that nations have started to teach English at

primary level so that in coming future students would not find it hard to

talk in English. According to Dr Richards English is important to be taught

at primary level so that its easy for students to read things written in

English in coming future such as reading time table of the bus. There are

number of skills that are to be possessed by a person to be employed

according to National Association of Career Educators and Employment

(NACE). In this list, first position is held by communication

skills and to be a good communicator one need to be good in speaking

English so that one can address large number of people. It has also been

said by National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration

(NUEPA) that number of students who opted for Hindi rather than English

grew only by 32%.

Even to be successful at international level, a person needs to have basic

knowledge of communicating one’s thoughts in English as it is first spoken

language by almost 350 million people and it is second language of more

than 430 million people. To go abroad one needs to qualify for number of

exams such as TOFEL, IELTS, PTE. All these tests are conducted only to

check the proficiency of a person in English. Whether one wants to go

abroad for higher studies or for setting own business, an individual need to

prove his or her proficiency in English as it is international language and

person would find it hard to communicate in foreign country if one is not

able to communicate in English. Even if any business unit want to grow at

international level then it is necessary that employees working in that

organisation should have competency to represent company at

international platforms where English is medium of exchange of thoughts.

English is also a language for international affairs as all the official

meetings concerning an international matter are conducted in English.

Even if representative of any nation doesn’t know how to communicate

in English, they need to have a translator with them, who will act as a

mediator to translate thoughts from any language into English. It is also

medium of developing international relations and diplomacy.




The representatives of different nations have to discuss about number of

matters and it becomes easy for them to share their opinions if they have

common medium of exchange. When English was not recognised as

common language for exchange of thought, all the representatives of

nation used to convey in their native language and it became difficult and

expensive to hire translators. After World War one, members of United

Nations recognised English as an official language. The importance of

English as an international language can be known from the fact that more

than half members of United Nation use prefer to use English. (Xhuvani

2017).

In this technological era, most of the commands in computer are written

in English. Almost all programming languages use English keywords and

English is also known as lingua franca of computing whereas other

languages are sources of vocabulary. Out of top ten languages used on

internet, English stands at first place. ( Miniwatts Marketing Group 2010)

Popularity of English as major source of communication can be known

from the fact that even if English is not the native language of a country

still there is at least one newspaper in that country that is published in

English. Moreover, it has been found that for teachers who want to be

proficient in language one must read newspaper so that its easy to teach

the same in classrooms (here language refers to English).

Conclusion

It can be concluded that although 500 years ago English was spoken by five

and seven million people but now it has been recognised as international

language. It is also the common spoken language for many non-English

speakers over the world, and almost a quarter of the globe’s population -

maybe 1½-2 billion people - can understand it and have at least some basic

competence in its use, whether written or spoken. It becomes easy for a

person to communicate with other person belonging to different region by

using English as medium of exchange of thoughts.




References

1. Luke Mastin 2011

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3. Fatos Gjata (November 2017), “The Importance of

English in the Development of International Relations and Diplomacy”.

4. Multiling.Ed. (January 2016), The importance of English

2. Barbara Crossette,(June 16,2002), “At the UN French


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