LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 5 May 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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English Language Teaching as Door to Communication

Pradeep Chaswal, M. A., M. Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
Deepak Chaswal, M. A., M. Phil., Ph.D. Candidate

Teacher's Attitude to Speech Forms, etc.

A teacher well conversant with and inclined towards conservative and traditional approach of teaching English as a target language or Second language will lay emphasis on formality of style and the literary classics. As far as spoken English is concerned, the conservatively inclined teacher will also advise the students to avoid as far as possible lazy forms of speech, slang expressions, undesirable dialect and accent. Such teacher will recommend the prestigious form of English written and spoken by middle class people in society.

On the other hand, a teacher of radical temperament does not find any virtue and feels no necessity in propagating and recommending a middle class prestige form of English. He may not feel shy in introducing and recommending all sorts of informal expressions, colloquial and slang terms and phrases, and he may also avoid strict adherence to the rules of grammar.

Communicative Fluency as an Important Focus

Main concern and objective of radically inclined teacher will be to prepare students to communicate in the target language with or without strict rules of grammar. Historically speaking, rigidly rule bound languages cannot keep pace with the forces of progress and transformation in society. Such languages lose their practical value.

For example, rigidly rule based Sanskrit language is, for all practical purposes no more a living language. There was a time, when Sanskrit was a living language in India.

Constraints of English Teaching and Learning in India

In fact, neither rigid adherence to the rules of grammar nor deliberate neglect of these rules is good for the health of a living language. English is being taught as the Second language in almost all the countries of the world simply because it has shown rare flexibility in accommodating non rigid views regarding teaching of this language as a Second language.

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Pradeep Chaswal, M. A., M. Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
Department of English
Maharishi Markandeshwar University
Mullana-Ambala 133001
Haryana
India
Chaswal.pradeep@gmail.com

Deepak Chaswal, M. A., M. Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
Department of English
Maharishi Markandeshwar University
Mullana-Ambala 133001
Haryana
India
dchaswal@gmail.com
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