期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：2
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：This study evaluated the current Writing and Communication Skills Courseprovided to assist students enrolled on the undergraduate engineering programme atQuaid-E-Awam University of Engineering Science, and Technology (QUEST), SindhPakistan .The questionnaire was used as a main tool of data collection to seek theperspectives of the currently enrolled final year students from Civil EngineeringDepartment, and English teachers of English Language Centre (ELC). The presentstudy explored the extent to which the Writing and Communication skills (WCS)course taught by ELC teachers met the academic literacy and learning needs ofundergraduate students of QUEST. The course was evaluated from its two aspects:contents (themes and topic) and methodology (instructional approach,resources/materials, and assessment criteria). Findings based on the students’ scaledresponses and open-ended responses and teachers open-ended responses by and largeshowed an agreement that the WCS course was falling short in meeting the needs ofundergraduate students of QUEST both in terms of its contents and methodology.
