LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:4 April 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Standardization: Speaking and Reading Skills among Rural Students

Bharathi Raj. K and G. Baskaran, Ph.D.

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Students are good in studying and getting involved in classroom activities. They are eager to learn new things with enthusiasm and dedication like learning a foreign language. In the context of India, rural students do not show these characteristics in their early education level. Their performance rate in foreign language is very low or average. After getting sound coaching/training, they usually come off their shell. The reason for the initial failure is lack of awareness and love for L2. However, as our subjects showed, they are ready to imitate more or less like other L2 students.

Key Words: activities – imitation – shell.

Speaking

The early introduction of speaking of language is important for reasons of motivation. Students come to learn a foreign language in high school with the conviction that “language” means “something spoken”. They are often discouraged and they lose interest when they find that foreign language study is presented to them just like other school subjects: learning a whole lot of materials from a book with great focus on writing and memorization. They notice that speaking in the language is not emphasized and is a far distant goal. In this way most of the learners feel hesitant as well as shy to express themselves in foreign language. Moreover, they do not know “an act of speech involves more than knowledge of the code” (William M. River 160).

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Bharathi Raj. K. Ph.D. Full Time Scholar
Gandhigram Rural Institute-Deemed University
Dindigul – 624 302
Tamilnadu, India
rajbharathi70@gmail.com

G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Faculty of English and Foreign Languages
Gandhigram Rural Institute-Deemed University
Dindigul – 624 302
Tamilnadu, India
rgbaskaran@gmail.com
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