LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 10 : 9 September 2010
ISSN 1930-2940

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Effective Teaching of English: A CLT Perspective for Haryana

Ms. Daisy

Teaching Methodology/Pedagogy - Situation in India

English Language Teaching in India has not much changed for years and it is hardly different from the postcolonial ELT methods where Shakespeare and Milton are taught with the same style as was done 100 years back. First, the students do not feel comfortable with such age-old texts today and secondly, they have nothing to do in the monotonous classrooms but listen to a lecture.

With the inception of Communicative Language Teaching in the 1960s, English teaching/learning seems to be much affected positively and in the recent past, there have been some hopeful signs of modifications and modernization, not just in teaching and learning but also in the use of English:

  • CBSE has already introduced in all its affiliated schools CLT curriculum "which is based upon an approach to course design which recognizes the importance of developing students' communicative competence." (Bhatt, 1995, 328)

  • ESP (English for Specific Purposes) is introduced in some Indian schools.

  • With the rise in computer expertise and Internet, the new generation has realized the importance of the preferred language of the global information highway (English) and for them English is no longer associated with colonial overtones. They see it as a necessary vehicle for upward and onward mobility, not just within India but also overseas.

  • The widespread availability of cable TV in India has made the native English available to the Indians (through BBC, CNN, MTV etc.) and due to this exposure, people feel increasingly comfortable with the different native varieties and have stopped being threatened by them.

  • Technology has been infused with teaching of English in the form of Language Labs

  • Reframing of the curriculum by various universities on CLT pattern
Communicative Language Teaching

CLT is an approach to the teaching of second and foreign languages that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of learning a language. It can be understood as "a set of principles about the goals of language teaching, how learners learn a language, the kinds of classroom activities that best facilitate learning, and the roles of teachers and learners in the classroom". (Jack C Richards)

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Right to Education and Languages in India - Part I | An Application of Skills Integration in Language Teaching | Official Ways to Subjugate Languages - School Setting as a Cause of Pahari Dhundi-Kairali Decline | Speech Identification Scores in Children With Bimodal Hearing | Continuous Professional Development - An Issue in Tertiary Education in Bangladesh | Teaching the Extra - Essentiality of Bringing Eclecticism into Classroom | Effective Teaching of English: A CLT Perspective for Haryana | ELT in Libyan Universities - A Pragmatic Approach | Behavioural Problems of Secondary School Students - A Pakistani Scene | Selection Procedure for English Language Teachers' Professional Development Courses of HEC Pakistan - A Case Study | Cohesion and Coherence in the novel The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James | A Review of A. R. Kidwai 2009: Literary Orientalism: a companion | Dravidian Ideologue Kanimozhi and Her Language | Extensive Reading and Reading Strategies: A Try-Out | Trends in Language Shift and Maintenance in the Eranad Dialect of Malayalam | Interdependence of Law and Literature in Shakespeare's and Charles Dickens's Writings - A Reflection | The Interaction between Bilingualism, Educational and Social Factors and Foreign Language Leaning in Iran | Code Switching in Kailasam's Play - Poli Kitty | Morph-Synthesizer for Oriya Language Computational Approach | Question Formation in Pahari | Language in Politics of Recognition: A Case of the Nepali Language in the Creation of Political Identity of the Nepalis in Darjeeling | Technology Note - Creating Parallel Test Items with Microsoft Excel | Politeness Strategies Across Cultures | Bridge between East and West - Iqbal and Goethe | Syntactic Errors Made by Science Students at the Graduate Level in Pakistan - Causes and Remedies | Prospective Teachers of English in India: A Perspective | Reported Perceptions and Practices of English Language Teachers at Secondary Level in Pakistan | A PRINT VERSION OF ALL THE PAPERS OF SEPTEMBER, 2010 ISSUE IN BOOK FORMAT. | HOME PAGE of September 2010 Issue | HOME PAGE | CONTACT EDITOR languageinindiaUSA@gmail.com

Ms. Daisy
Department of English
BPS Memorial Girls' College
BPS Mahila Vishwavidyalaya
Khanpur Kalan (Sonipat)
Haryana, India
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