LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 12 December 2011
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.

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Testing and Evaluation of Cloze Test among High School Students of Coimbatore

Chandrika Mohan, M.A., M.A., M.Phil., C.G.T., Ph.D. Research Scholar

Introduction

Language is a system. Each language has its own structure, its own system. The main objective of the teaching-learning of a living language – like English – is to help the learners to become able to use it to communicate with others, by sending and receiving meaningful messages. The objective of language teaching is not to ‘transmit’ the teacher’s superior understanding and appreciation of such texts to pupils; it is rather, to help them experience or ‘see for themselves’ the meanings. Teachers’ style is inevitably influenced by their attitudes and beliefs; the nature and role of knowledge, in the case of language learning, their view of language and the nature of learning and teaching. Having discussed in a general way the importance of textual materials to learners and teachers as well as some approaches to materials development, we will not focus on evaluating and testing materials and the various procedures for doing it. It should be clearly understood that evaluation of instructional materials is an important professional activity for all teachers. The process of evaluation involves measuring the suitability of a given set of materials to the stated objectives of a teaching programme.

Language Teaching

Language is an important tool of communication to express one’s ideas, views and feelings. Language teaching plays a vital role to open up its resources to the learner so that he or she may find the right words and sentences to convey the meaning intended. The teaching of language is by no means a recent of novel activity and there has always been a constant search for effective ways of optimizing learning. The goals of teaching the mother tongue or the first language are different from those of teaching of foreign language or a second language.

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Chandrika Mohan, M.A., M.A., M.Phil., C.G.T.
Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Bharathiar University
Coimbatore – 641 046
Tamilnadu, India
Chandrikamohan76@gmail.com
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