LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 11 November 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Simulation in Language Learning Acquisition

Altaf Jameel, TESOL, Ph.D.

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Simulation is undoubtedly a valuable tool for applied scientific language learning in a constructive teaching learning process. It has and is enhancing creativity, innovation and applied thinking. Besides it helps in the development and cultivation of creative language within a relatively conducive learning environment. Thus, it helps in building motivation and enthusiasm, compulsory for the quality language-learning to take place.

This paper shall throw light on different approaches relating to the use of simulation techniques and designs behind the process and finally procedure of operation followed by the resulting conclusion.

Key words: classroom simulations, methodology, approaches, motivation, language learning and communications

Simulation Theory in Language: An Approach

There are three theoretical approaches to a language (Rodgers & Richards, 1986): Functional, Structural and Interactional. Simulation is viewed under the Interactional approach. Here the language is an instrument for the realization of interpersonal relations and for the social transaction performances between individuals…In the light of this approach “language teaching content, may be specified and organized by patterns of exchange and interaction or may be left unspecified, to be shaped by the inclinations of learners as interactions.” (Rodgers & Richards, 1986)

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Altaf Jameel, TESOL, Ph.D.
School of Humanities
Department of English
Singhania University
Rajasthan, India
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