LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:1 January 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
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         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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IMPEDIMENTS IN PROMOTING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AMONG
STUDENTS OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

V. Suntharesan, Ph.D.

Introduction

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) views language as a tool for communication. It insists that interactional speaking activities in classrooms provide fine opportunities to create a real communicative environment. It ensures that students have sufficient exposure to the target language. Thus, application of CLT in classrooms would bring about positive outcome to the students as well as the teachers.

By introducing CLT, teachers are able to catch up with the modern development of English teaching methods in the world. They are able to realize that teaching English is not only teaching grammar, and that true mastery of language involves communicative competence.

As CLT aims at communicative competence, students will be more competent in the use of English for communication. A good level of English will help them adequately to graduate from universities; to obtain jobs, ; to read technical and scientific materials; and to study abroad.

In the ESL classrooms in Sri Lanka, students encounter certain impediments that restrict their communicative ability such as lack of exposure to English, absence of CLT approach in the classroom, lack of motivation and subject demotivating factors such as inadequate vocabulary, and difficulties in spelling, structure and listening. Hence, this volume analyzes the factors that hinder the students’ communicative competence and suggest strategies for developing their communicative ability.

This book identifies and describes the impediments we face in promoting communicative competence among students of English a Second Language. The book suggests practical steps we can take to improve communicative competence in students of English as a Second Language. The book contains the following chapters.

CHAPTER -1
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING

CHAPTER -2
LITERATURE REVIEW

CHAPTER – 3
FACTORS HINDERING LEARNERS IN ACHIEVING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

CHAPTER – 4
TEACHING TECHNIQUES TO PROMOTE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

CHAPTER – 5
CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDIX – A
APPENDIX - B

This is only the beginning part of the BOOK. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE BOOK IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

V. SUNTHARESAN, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
English Language Teaching Center
University of Jaffna
Jaffna, Sri Lanka
suntharesan@yahoo.com
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