LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:6 June 2018
ISSN 1930-2940

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Everyday Problems in Teaching English Language to
Young Learners

Dr. I. Sirisha, Ph.D.

Abstract

Teaching any second language, particularly English has always been a strenuous task, especially while dealing with the students who come from different cultures and backgrounds, as it involves some complexities which can be overcome through the application of appropriate strategies. English language has put down firm roots in India from the inception of the British rule. Initially English was taught to the people by the missionaries, and slowly it developed as an official language. People treat English as a tool for social advancement even after the British rule; no other vernacular language has tried to replace this foreign language.

English has become the lingua franca of international transactions in the globalized world. Young learners require an ever-increasing range of skills to maintain relevance with the global environment of the new millennium. For students whose mother tongue is not English, mastering English is very important, not only for their academic life, but also for their prospective career. English is a matron nurse who makes delivery of ideas easy, but as a medium of instruction it poses many challenges both for learners and teachers. Mother tongue influence is one of the serious threats to the advancement of learning, which should be dealt dexterously. Pronunciation is one of the language traits which is seriously affected by mother tongue. The socio–cultural background of an individual helps propel forward a very strong impact of mother tongue on English teaching and learning.

This paper includes an analysis of the problems in teaching English Language to young learners and strategies to meet these challenges.

Keywords: English Language, mother tongue influence, mother-tongue and pronunciation, Young Learners, teaching language, learning second language, language teaching strategies

English – Essential Part of Modern Communication

Communication has become the prime necessity of man, the days before the birth of the language have nothing worth recording, and this unique speech trait has made him stand above the rest of creation. Though there are different languages, the feelings of the human beings are same, the base feelings of anger, happiness, gloominess, have been described in different ways. After the basic emotion man had thought of moving beyond this to speak his heart which had given scope for abundant literature. Every idea which takes birth in the heart of an individual needs to be delivered at the proper time through a channel called language. It may be any language like English, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi or any other.

English Language plays an important role in the development of any country; just as in other countries English occupies a place of prestige in our country. English Knowledge helps us establish cultural, economic commercial and political relations with the rest of the World. English language has laid its firm roots in India from the inception of the British rule; initially English was taught to the people by the missionaries, and slowly it developed as an official language. People treat English as a tool for social advancement even after the British rule; no other vernacular language has been able to replace this foreign language. English is a matron nurse who makes delivery of ideas easy, but as a medium of instruction it poses many challenges both for learners and teachers.

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Dr. I. Sirisha
Associate professor
Nalla Narisimha Reddy Education Society Group of Institutions
(Affiliated to JNTUH)
Ghatkesar
Hyderabad
Telangana
India
siriiruvuri@gmail.com

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