LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13 : 7 July 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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Teaching of Adverbials to the Tamil Speaking Learners of English
A Post-Graduate Dissertation

S. Rajendran

CONTENTS

1. Introduction 2. Adverbials in Tamil 3. Adverbial forms and their meaning in Tamil 4. Adverbial in English 5. Similarities and dissimilarities between adverbial adverbials in Tamil and English 6. Data from a short story for the use of Tamil Adverbials 7. Problem Areas for Tamil Speaking Learners of English 8. Suggestion and Exercises Books Consulted

Introduction

The filed of adverbials in either Tamil or English is vast. Attempting a work like mine on adverbials is like trying to cross the ocean by swimming. But for the fear of swimming we can’t help crossing the ocean. It is my humble attempt towards Adverbials in Tamil and English and tried my best to explain them.

Most of our Indian students often go wrong in the use of adverbials. Their errors are most due to their mother – tongue influence. The errors also vary according to student’s mother – tongue. So it will be always a great help to compare a particular grammatical item with the same item of the student’s mother – tongue. It not only helps the teacher to identify the errors, but also enables him to enhance his teaching in an effective manner to achieve his target.

In this work I have pointed out the similarities and dissimilarities in the adverbials of Tamil and English. And also I have stated the most difficult areas in adverbials where the students with Tamil as other mother – tongue most often go wrong.

I have given the data from a short story taken from the Tamil weekly. “Kumudham”, which is the largest circulated weekly in India, to show how the adverbials are used frequently in our day to day life. I have given the same sentences from a story and also translated them into English.

Finally, I have framed exercise in such a way that will help the students to rectify their errors.

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

S. Rajendran
Principal
Govt. Degree & P.G. College
Godavarikhani - 505209
Andhra Pradesh
India
rajen120000@yahoo.co.in
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