LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 11 November 2011
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.

HOME PAGE

BOOKS FOR YOU TO READ AND DOWNLOAD FREE!

REFERENCE MATERIAL

BACK ISSUES

  • E-mail your articles and book-length reports in Microsoft Word to languageinindiaUSA@gmail.com.
  • Contributors from South Asia may also e-mail their articles to
    B. Mallikarjun,
    Central Institute of Indian Languages,
    Manasagangotri,
    Mysore 570006, India     mallikarjun@ciil.stpmy.soft.net.

  • PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES GIVEN IN HOME PAGE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE LIST OF CONTENTS.

  • Your articles and book-length reports should be written following the APA, MLA, LSA, or IJDL Stylesheet.

  • The Editorial Board has the right to accept, reject, or suggest modifications to the articles submitted for publication, and to make suitable stylistic adjustments. High quality, academic integrity, ethics and morals are expected from the authors and discussants.

Copyright © 2011
M. S. Thirumalai
Custom Search

Teaching Vocabulary through Newspaper Advertisements: An Innovative Experience

Anisha, M.Phil. (ELT), M.A., B.Ed., Ph.D. Scholar

Frustration with Choice of Words

Many teachers in India face the challenges of teaching English because the students’ native language is not English. It is the need of the hour that teachers should certainly know more about effective strategies for teaching English.

Everyone - from beginners in English to veterans in journalism - knows the frustration of not having the appropriate word immediately. Sometimes it's a matter of not being able to recall the right word; sometimes we never know it. It is also frustrating to read a newspaper or homework assignment and run across words the meanings of which elude us. Language, after all, is power.

Importance of Word Power

Language is not possible without words. Words are like bricks that are used to build a small house or a big building. Words are the building blocks of language and knowledge of more words gives more clarity in writing. A right word at the right place makes the language precise and correct and helps in correct expression of the thought intended to be expressed. And for correct expression of thoughts, words have to be joined with one another to make complete sentences; hence the need for teaching connecting words, i.e., prepositions and conjunctions. But vocabulary learning is the focal point for communication. Students who are not able to construct complete grammatical sentences can still get their message across if they know some key high-frequency vocabulary.

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

Anisha, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of English
BPS Women University
Khanpur Kalan (Sonipat) - 131305
Haryana
India
chugh_anisha@yahoo.com
Custom Search
  • Click Here to Go to Creative Writing Section

  • Send your articles
    as an attachment
    to your e-mail to
    languageinindiaUSA@gmail.com.
  • Please ensure that your name, academic degrees, institutional affiliation and institutional address, and your e-mail address are all given in the first page of your article. Also include a declaration that your article or work submitted for publication in LANGUAGE IN INDIA is an original work by you and that you have duly acknowledged the work or works of others you either cited or used in writing your articles, etc. Remember that by maintaining academic integrity we not only do the right thing but also help the growth, development and recognition of Indian scholarship.