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A Contrastive Approach to Materials Adaptation for the
Teaching of Grammar to ESL Students

Prof. Kausar Husain, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Sadaf Zarrin, M.A., Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow

Abstract

English is considered today as a pre-requisite for the success and advancement of learners as well as a nation. The rising importance of English has created an immense demand for the development of quality resource materials. As materials provide the very foundation for the teaching of the target language, their efficacy should be considered an important factor in influencing the success or failure of the learners. Various government and non-government bodies as NCERT, SCERT, and CBSE regularly produce materials for learners of each level and age group on the basis of their needs analysis. Still, for many situations teachers may have to adapt the materials to make them more suitable for particular groups of learners. Our paper suggests ways of adapting materials for Indian ESL students, utilizing the resources of L1 as Hindi/Urdu. The use of L1 can prove useful for the teaching of different aspects of language, as the learners’ L1 comprises a part of the background knowledge that they bring to the learning task. In this paper certain ways have been suggested to demonstrate how L1 can be utilised for adapting materials for the teaching of tenses to ESL students.

Keywords: contrastive analysis needs analysis, adaptation, and use of L1.

Introduction

Materials occupy a central position especially in the ELT curriculum. They serve as stimulus for effective learning by providing opportunities to learners to learn through interesting input such as stories, poems, articles as well as different types of activities. However, despite the current rich array of ELT materials which are commercially produced by various government and non-government bodies as NCERT, SCERT, and CBSE in the light of the needs analysis of learners, sometimes we find these materials as lacking as far as L1 medium or regional medium learners are concerned. These materials can be adapted for such students using a contrastive approach, that is, by using the resources of the mother tongue in designing the materials. The paper suggests a few ways of applying a contrastive approach to materials adaptation which can be beneficial for Indian ESL students whose mother tongue is Hindi. The researchers have picked up adaptation of materials for the teaching of a few tenses to learners to tertiary level learners of ESL for this purpose.

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Prof. Kausar Husain, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Department of English, Faculty of Arts
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh 202002
Uttar Pradesh
India
husain_kausar10@yahoo.com

Sadaf Zarrin, M.A., Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow
Corresponding author
Department of English, Faculty of Arts
Aligarh 202002
Uttar Pradesh
India
sadaf.amu11@gmail.com

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