LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 9 September 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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Target Language: Proficiency & Intelligibility

Nagen Bhusan Patnaik, M.A., PGCTE, M.B.A., Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

Target language or Second language (L2) learning reflects the complexity of learning a language which is the other tongue rather than the mother tongue. This paper focuses on the prospects and benefits of the skill-based learning of Second language. Adult L2 learners have two means for internalizing a target language. The first is acquisition, a subconscious and intuitive process, similar to that used by a child to pick up L1. The second is conscious learning, in which a learner attends to form and is aware of his/her own learning process. The conscious learning processes and the subconscious acquisition processes are mutually exclusive. Thus, the scholar asserts that speech would emerge after the acquirer had been exposed to enough comprehensible input. In the present competitive world, where the use of English is widespread, we have to learn and teach L2 in order to cope up with the existing system as it is beneficial for a learner, based on his/her own needs.

Target Language: Proficiency & Intelligibility

At the outset, I would like to focus on my personal experience to justify how the interference of the Mother Tongue leads to less intelligibility of the Second Language. I had been to KSR College of Science and Arts, Erode, to attend the contact programme of PGCTE, CIEFL, where I encountered caustic comments from the guide regarding my articulation of some of the consonantal phonemes. While articulating /s/ and /sh /, the guide found the interference of my mother tongue Oriya. As a result I had been given a tongue twister “She sells sea shells on the sea shore” to practice. It took the whole night to practice this tongue twister. And finally I succeeded in articulating these two sounds exactly. Similarly the interference of our mother tongue is rampant in our spoken English which snatches away the charm of the language. Further, it also creates difficulties in intelligibility which leads to communication failure. Therefore, in order to attain success in the process of communication, the speaker has to achieve proficiency in speaking English properly.

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