LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 15:11 November 2015
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.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
         N. Nadaraja Pillai, Ph.D.
         Soibam Rebika Devi, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Personal Reflections on the Concept of “Language Teaching as an
Art”, Based on a Critical Evaluation of In-class Presentations,
Discussions, and Practical Exercises

Talal Musaed Alghizzi, Ph.D. Candidate

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Teaching as a Science

Around the world, there has been a prevailing perspective that considers teaching as a science whose optimal goal is to elevate the efficiency and the productivity of learners at both pre-university and university levels. This belief has been promulgated and perpetuated in most educational research papers which, for instance, accept the methods of the natural sciences as the standard paradigm for investigation and hypothesization. The findings of those studies have had a two-fold effect, both on the types of curricula (i.e., text books) used in schools, and on the various kinds of teaching methodologies available for teachers in pre-service and in-service training courses. Unfortunately, the application of the above-mentioned findings has not yielded remarkable outcomes. Instead, these effects are considered to be disastrous since the “results of national and international tests in regard to the basic skills of reading and mathematics along with a clear deficit in pupils’ scientific knowledge have made educational reform one of the most pressing issues” (Lutzker, 2007, p. 10) that concern educational authorities. Some of these authorities have even suggested changing the current understanding of regarding teaching as a science to considering it as an art instead.

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Talal Musaed Alghizzi
(Ph.D. Candidate at University College Cork, Ireland)
Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU)
College of Languages and Translation
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
t-alghizzi-ie@hotmail.com
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