Effectiveness of CLT in developing technical English writing skills at undergraduate level in the context of Pakistan

Abstract

The Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), has always been considered useful for teaching English Language across the world. Current study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of the Lecture Method (LM) and the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) on teaching 'Technical English Writing' to the undergraduate students in Pakistan. The written test is used to assess the five traits of technical writing which are conciseness, precision, clarity, audience recognition, and document design. A classical experimental design was used to measure the comparative progress of LM group and CLT group. The experimental group was taught through CLT based activities while LM was adopted for teaching the control group. Finally, SPSS-25 was used to analyze the data collected through pre-test, post test score of both CLT and LM groups. The results of study indicated a significant difference between the gain scores of CLT group and LM group. From these results it can be concluded that CLT method is more effective than LM to be used at undergraduate level in Pakistan. Results of the study can be generalized to other students involved in learning of technical English writing skills.