Abstract:
In the 21st Century, the demand of experienced
and educated workers has increasingly become in
working environment and higher institutions like
universities play a central role in nurturing the
qualified students. In this context, the students from
University of Computer Studies, Yangon, need
training to apply efficiently their soft skills as well as
hard skills. They are expected to construct the Small
and Medium Enterprise (SME) if they realise the
contrast of theoretical knowledge and hands-on
experience before they hunt job in the real world. It
means that before completing their Bachelor Degree,
the university makes the internship program for them.
Students are sent to the industries or companies and
they are really engaged to the business fields or
workplace. On this occasion, the engaged learning
programme, as a theoretical background, is required
not only for the students but for the faculty members of
the university who involves teaching-learning
situation. For language teachers especially those who
are teaching English need to change their curriculum
in order to meet the current situation. In previous
semesters, the IELTS was prescribed starting from the
first year level to the final year level, but since 2016-
17 academic year, the 21st century communication
skills have been conducted in the final year. It can be
found that students become interested in
communication skills and they also motivate in their
English language learning. Communicative Language
Teaching method has been used to teach authentic
texts and to converse about learners' personal
experiences. Students are grouped in discussion and
debates, which promotes their four skills. The students
can also utilize the communication skills in their
report writing and project after they complete intern
programme. The aim of this paper is to enhance the
students’ performance by developing curriculum that
can support in their learning and provide real needs.
In other words, by means of engaged learning and
intern programme, the capacity of human resources
can be effectively built and it can be said that
curriculum development is associated with the
development of a society, a community, or a country.
