Name: Puneet Narang
Country: India

Year: 2025
Volume: Volume-10, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 362-371
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20459731

ABSTRACT
The objectives of the present study were to understand perspective of the students with regard to significance of learning English language and role of their respective institutes in enhancing their English Competence. The sample of the study included 418 college students, studying through English medium and pursuing professional courses in various institutes of Punjab. An interview schedule had been prepared to seek their responses and its content has been standardized by including exact and precise questions to eliminate interviewer’s bias and to ensure that each respondent receives same stimuli in the form of questions. The data collected through interviews has been analyzed by employing the techniques of content analysis and percentage analysis. The percentage analysis has facilitated in gauging at themes and patterns across data, avoiding biased interpretation, enhancing precision, making contrast and comparisons and validating conclusions. The qualitative analysis of these findings of the study is discussed in this research paper.

Key Words: English Competence: Educational Institutions: Interview Schedule; Content Analysis; Percentage Analysis