LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:2 February 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
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         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Enhancement of Public Speaking Skill through Practice
among Teacher-Trainees in English: A Study

Dr. C. Arun, M.A., M.Phil., B.Ed., Ph.D.
Dr. V. Peruvalluthi, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Abstract

This paper discusses the innovative methods of developing public speaking skill in English for the B.Ed. teacher-trainees. Teacher-trainees must have this essential skill which helps achieve a successful academic and professional career. Normally professional course students focus more on their major subjects than on learning the effective use of English language. In Tamil Nadu, teacher-trainees, both from the rural and urban areas, seem to have difficulty in mastering the speaking skill in English though their medium of instruction might have been English in their schools. This leads to their failure to gain any success in public speaking in English. In general, public speaking is more challenging than speaking skill. Language proficiency is not used as a criterion for admission to B.Ed. courses in colleges of education. This deficiency, in due course, creates problems for these candidates when they attend interviews and when they try to communicate with their team members or others. In schools where they are employed, they have difficulty in delivering public speech in English. So, there is a need for them to develop their public speaking skill in English through some novel ways.

Public speaking is admired and is in great demand. The teacher trainees approach this skill with fear and reservation. Even in the training period, speaking skill is taught rarely in any formal sense, which may increase anxiety and discomfort. Most of the B.Ed., colleges give importance to get all their students pass the university exams rather than developing skills. This is also another reason for the teacher trainees who may obtain good to excellent grades in their subjects but fear to perform speech in the public.

In the present study, the researchers have tried to identify the ways which can be used to develop the public speaking skill among the B.Ed. teacher-trainees. This can be done through some innovative methods even as the trainees go through their textbook-oriented English course at the college. The researchers have also conducted a qualitative study to find out how the public speaking skill in English can be improved.

Key words: Public speaking, B.Ed. teacher trainees, methods of mastering public speaking skill

Introduction

How do I speak and present the subject effectively in the class using English? And how do I speak in English to deliver public speech? These are questions that every teacher trainee of English major and Non-English majors should raise. Many books are available to guide them to help use the various methods and techniques. However, colleges do not offer help as to how these books could be used. Colleges also do not provide for any practical training in public speaking.

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Dr. C. Arun, M.A., M.Phil., B.Ed., Ph.D.
P.G.Teacher in English
Government Girls Higher Secondary School
Polur-606803
Tiruvannamalai District
Tamilnadu
India
arun_english80@yahoo.com

Dr. V. Peruvalluthi

Dr. V. Peruvalluthi M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Professor & Head
Department of English
Thiruvalluvar University
Serkadu
Vellore 632 115
Tamilnadu
India
valluthi@gmail.com
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