• Mr. G. Venkata Satya Surya Narayana
• Dr. Jangam Sudhir

As psycholinguistics establishes ‘heart is the root and language is the fruit’, one’s language is an inevitable outcome of one’s intra and inter-personal skills which constitute some core components in soft skill set. Now–a–days, most of the communication system is associated with English. The multinational corporate mania demands proficiency in English as the need of the hour for a promising employee. The present paper traces out some of the areas of proficiency in English required to be a soft skill savvy and provides some practical ways to improve them. Listening with empathy, formal, semi formal and informal speaking, content based reading, Net and writing etiquettes, appropriate use of words, meaningful and intonation based utterances and proper use of modal auxiliaries in situational dialogues certainly add savor and makes one English soft skill savvy. No student generation of India needs so much of the English language and a soft skill as the present one does. Every age and generation has demanded particular kinds of skills for their bread and butter. We are in the age of communication. This age is called the ‘space age’ or the ‘age of information technology’ or even ‘cyber age’. In a

"ROLE OF ENGLISH PROFICIENCY IN SOFT SKILLS: A PRACTICAL APPROACH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.448-455, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCJ06099.pdf

"ROLE OF ENGLISH PROFICIENCY IN SOFT SKILLS: A PRACTICAL APPROACH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp448-455, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCJ06099.pdf