LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13 : 3 March 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Introducing English Pronunciation Teaching in Indian
Educational System – ‘Why’ and ‘How’

Reena Maskara, Masters Student

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English is used as a lingua franca in India. However, English has diverse dialects due to the influence of various local languages of India. In addition, the Indian educational system does not give much stress on learning English pronunciation causing variation in spoken English. The influence of local language in spoken English could be minimized by introducing phonetics (English pronunciation) English language-teaching curriculum of India. This paper aims to a) explore the existing English pronunciation problems; b) find the need addressing these problems; b) propose various solutions and their priority. We found that English pronunciation as a problem and phonetics’ teaching is a need for Indian students. The IPA phonetic symbols should be part of the Indian education system. Even a surface level awareness of phonetics might bring a lot of uniformity in various Indian English dialects.

Keywords –English, Lingua Franca, IPA, Phonetics, India

Introducing English Pronunciation Teaching in Indian Educational System – ‘Why’

When we talk about the World Englishes, we cannot ignore Indian English because it is widely spoken. The Indian census has not actually counted the numbers of English speakers recently; however, the English speakers are estimated to be in the range 9 percent (100 million) to 33 percent of her population (350 million speakers). There are 100-200 million fluent speakers of English, and 300 - 400 million people can manage to speak (Enokizono, 2000).

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Reena Maskara, Masters Student
Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics
Yuan Ze University
135, Yuan Tung Road, Chungli, Taiwan, 320
reena.maskara1984@gmail.com
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