LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 10 : 3 March 2010
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Classroom Management and Quality Control -
An Action Research

T. Jayasudha M.A., Ph.D.

Introduction

Classroom reforms with Quality methods are assumed to enable teachers solve their individual classroom teaching problems to foster better learning in the learner. Most of the institutions that are sought after these days are those that provide need-based "quality" education. Hence any institution that wants to survive the competition should go for Quality to attract learners. The key factor in any Quality system is to satisfy the needs of the customers, clients or learners in this case. This research aimed to identify the gaps in the system and try alternative strategies to increase the learners' employability prospects.

The writer of this paper involved herself in observing classroom behaviour of the learners and she wrote notes about her own teaching to collect information to be used to improve or alter her own or learners' behaviour. Lesson plans, self-observation and self-evaluation records enabled her to reflect on classroom teaching and remedial processes.

An Action Research Program

Indian English usage through newspaper articles, reports, magazines and the like were used in the language curriculum to expose learners to the language as this would enable the learners empathize with the text at ease and unconsciously imbibe the vocabulary, structure and the meaning. This research sensitized the learners to the Indian variety of English through the language materials that were used in the classes other than those that were prescribed.

Quality as Tool for the Action Research and Classroom Management

It was realized that to adopt theories and texts and deliver them to suit the Indian socio-cultural context, a suitable standard framework was a must. Quality management principles have been adopted by the leading institutions of the world to provide quality education.

  • Fitness for use (Juran)
  • Conformance to requirements (Crosby)
  • Product or service which helps someone and enjoys sustainable markets (Deming)
  • Provisions to internal and external customers of innovative products and service which fully satisfy their needs. (Xerox) (Liston 11)

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The Linguistics of Newspaper Advertising in Nigeria | Women in Advertisements | Case-Assignment Under Government in Modern Literary Arabic | Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Very Young Learners: A Case from Turkey | Association of Self Fashioning and Circumstances in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin | A Moral Lesson, Amoral Lesion - Sharon Pollock's The Komagata Maru Incident | Pariksha: Test by Prem Chand | Treatment of City in Nayantara Sahgal's Storm in Chandigarh | Phrasal Stress in Telugu | Stress Among ELT Teachers: A Study of Performance Evaluation from a Private Secondary School in Haryana | Willa Cather’s Portrayal of the Pioneer Virtues in Alexandra Bergson with Reference to O Pioneers! | Man-Woman Relationship in Nayantara Sahgal's Mistaken Identity | Classroom Management and Quality Control - An Action Research | Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha - A Dualist Spiritual Journey | Impact of Dramatics on Composition Skills of Secondary School English Language Learners in Pakistan | Narrative Technique, Language and Style in R. K. Narayan's Works | Diasporic Crisis of Dual Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake | To Teach or Not to Teach Grammar isn't the Question Any Longer - A Case for Consciousness-Raising Tasks | Cognitive Flexibility in Children with Learning Disability | Coda Deletion in Yemeni Tihami Dialect (YTD)- Autosegmental Analysis | The Enigmatic Maya in Anita Desai's
Cry, The Peacock | Developing an English Curriculum for a Premedical Program | The Ties of Kinship in Rohinton Mistry's Novels | Indian English: A Linguistic Reality | The Unpredictability of the Sonority of English Words | Women's Representation in Polity: A Need to Enhance Their Participation | Nandhini Oza's Concern for the Tribal Welfare in "The Dam Shall Not Be Built" | A PRINT VERSION OF ALL THE PAPERS OF MARCH 2010 ISSUE IN BOOK FORMAT | HOME PAGE of March 2010 Issue | HOME PAGE | CONTACT EDITOR

T. Jayasudha M.A., P.G.C.T.E., Ph.D.
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Bharathi Women's College
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Tamilnadu, India
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