Despite the gradual improvement of scores (from 24.90 to 29.02), the mean for this competency obtained by eighth semester students is slightly higher(29.02) than the total mean.The reason may lie in the contents presented and the educational methods used. Although focus of teaching English was on special and general English terms and text translation,listening and speaking skills were almost ignored.Contrary to the findings of the current study,findings by Sharepooretal.(2001) showed low generic competency in English language among senior students. The reason behind this difference can be found in the increased number of English courses in the new curriculum of LIS compared to previous ones. However, there is still a very small difference between the competency of students in their eighth semester and the average English competency which can be due to paying more attention to reading comprehension skills compared to listening,speaking and writing skills in the current curriculum.