TEACHING OF ENGLISH: A PLEA FOR PRACTICLE ATTITUDE

ASSIGNMENT: EC-304 ELT

TOPIC: TEACHING OF ENGLISH: A PLEA FOR PRACTICLE ATTITUDE   

ROLL NO: 11

CLASS: M. A.

SEM: III

YEAR: 2011-2012

NAME: PATEL KAVITA B.

SUBMITTED TO: MR.DEVARSHI MEHTA,

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,

BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY,

  TEACHING OF ENGLISH: THE PLEA FOR PRACTICAL ATTITUDE

                                  -R. K. SINGH

 Abstract:

                 English in India is a potential national resource. It is important to develop tolerance and positive attitudes towards English. Teaching by making is more need based, flexible and innovative.

                 English is adopted and established as a link language by our national leaders during and after freedom struggle not for mutual communication and coexistence, but also for saving small state nationalism.

                  English is not necessarily for reasons of quality but for political and historical reasons. England and USA have been dominating power for past three centuries English has become a dominating language, the language of power, utility and international communication today.

                   English exists for many utilitarian reasons in many non native forms, and in India, with the ‘Associate Official Language’ status that constitutionally it enjoys, remember the fact that socially English continues to be a prestige language and widely preferred as medium for all transaction, it’s now an integral part of the country’s linguistic ecology and perceived as a language of power and administrative and sociocultural contexts, just as over 75% of secondary school students have been studying it.

                    There is a need to change attitudes towards English. English is a neutral language or linguafranca for communication. So, learning another language makes one bigger gives one a wider vision. As a teacher of English he hopes from us, the fraternity will appreciate his plea for tolerance and mutual understanding in our pluralistic multilingual society, where unfortunately communication is to quote Mulk Raj Anand,

        “Baulked by narrow parochialism.”

                    He make the remark to emphasise the need for adopting more practical and accomandating attitudes besides thinking about our role asa teacher of English. If teacher accept their aim of teach English well, and if they want to ensure that their pupils should achieve a basic command of the language, than they must..

      i.            Encourage a teaching programme.

   ii.            Pursue such teaching activities.

iii.            Flexible teaching approach.

                These are the three didactic aims of teaching. The first is, a need based teaching, and it is difficult for teacher. First of all, the teacher must know their level and abilities of student that is relevant and challenging with a definite goal in mind.

                 If teacher teach English as a means of communication, teacher should also understand the essence of communication is meaningful interaction between participants. Teaching is not only teaching but presenting and practicing with such language items, that learners need in real life.

                 Teachers have to give them opportunity to use language in intelligent and relevant interaction. These activities must relate to students intellectual awareness, by challenging their cognitive and creative ability, and students should also realize that they are equally responsible for their learning, that is enjoyable and useful.

                   The third one objective is relates to motivating the students to experience success, to make them believe it is possible. The negative feelings of learner have to be changed. Failure can be avoided by providing rewarding and successful experience, by using communication technique. It is possible for the flexible and adoptable in the English classroom. If the teacher wants to know from the very first what is his/ her demands to pertaining, to class work.

             We have this major problem because we have a big class of mixed abilities; teach certain materials to the class as a whole, and form groups and pairs for written exercises, discussion, tasks and specific activities.

            Teaching English should be seen as an opportunity to explore and understand to question and argue, to learn, they and to retain something. Students want to learn, they enjoy expressing themselves in a new and different languages. What to teach ,to whom and why it is important for teachers.