Enhancing Speaking Skills of ESP Students Using Activity Based Learning Techniques

This paper discusses the effectiveness of Activity Based Learning (ABL) used to teach speaking skills to Engineering students in a private university in Maharashtra. The present study was used to determine the effect of ABL on the development of the speaking skills of first-year B. Tech students. Pre-assessment and post-assessment equivalent design was used to collect the data of the research. Total one hundred students of FY B.Tech. were selected as subjects of the study. Pre-assessment was done at the commencement of the course. Then ABL techniques were used to teach the selected topics. After the completion of the selected content, post-assessment was conducted to measure the development of the speaking skills among students. The findings of the study showed that ABL is an effective and essential way to enhance ESP students' speaking skills since the selected students' post-assessment score was significantly different from their pre-assessment score. Keywords: Activity Based Learning, ESP, speaking skills