English Communication Skills at DifferentWorkplaces: Bangladesh Perspective
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With the progression of time, as a result of colonization in the sub- ontinent and the effect of globalization, English language has become an inseparable part of our Bengali-speaking environment. Because of its rising need and demand English is widely used almost every sector such as science, technology, business, commerce, finance, aviation, navigation, agriculture, education, health sector and so on in Bangladesh. The study was designed to highlight the importance of English language in different sectors specially in banking, garments, industry, higher education and health care sector. The paper also throws light on how these sectors are benefitted, attaining progress by adopting English as their means of communication. Data were
collected from 58 respondents who are related with banking, trading, education and health care sectors as employers or employees through questionnaire and online interview with 10 of them. The findings indicate that the importance of English language abilities for communication in the workplace has increased, and participants have repeated the significance of English as an important component during interviews in the selection process. Furthermore, it has been discovered that inadequate English communication abilities might hinder one's efforts to increase the productivity of the organizations and also to get a better job. The data also show that in university education, the combination of language skills professionals require for optimum functioning in the workplace was underestimated.
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