Analysis Of Non English Social Milieu
ELT in Technical Education:
An Analysis of the Existing Hurdles in a Non – English Social Milieu and Some Viable Solutions
SARAKANAM SRINIVAS
M.A., M.Phil., (PhD) Faculty of English, Samalkot - 533440, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India
Mobile: 91+ 9959343424, 9154957348 vasu.vasu14@gmail.com Abstract One of the major challenges any English Language Teacher often confronts is ‘imparting of speaking skills’ to the students of engineering courses at under graduate level in a non – English social milieu wherein English is not the chief medium of people for conversation. Even if the teachers endeavor to adopt the communicative language teaching approach - according to which learners acquire language proficiency while interacting (communicating) with one another - they often experience setbacks due to the principal cause ‘non – English social milieu’ and the supplementary causes like lack of adequate infrastructure, unviable teacher – student ratio in class rooms, the exclusion …show more content…
A classroom with the students of various vernacular languages is cosmopolitan in nature and therefore the utility of English language is inevitable in this sort of academic environment. The students, compelled by their emotional and education needs, communicate with one another in English in this environment. The scholastic milieu that is quite favourable for English language learning is a common phenomenon at the international educational institutes. Students will have a huge scope for the acquisition of language proficiency in this kind of cosmopolitan scholastic milieu, if they can be prevented from the narrow minded practice of regionalism and linguistic
An Analysis of the Existing Hurdles in a Non – English Social Milieu and Some Viable Solutions
SARAKANAM SRINIVAS
M.A., M.Phil., (PhD) Faculty of English, Samalkot - 533440, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India
Mobile: 91+ 9959343424, 9154957348 vasu.vasu14@gmail.com Abstract One of the major challenges any English Language Teacher often confronts is ‘imparting of speaking skills’ to the students of engineering courses at under graduate level in a non – English social milieu wherein English is not the chief medium of people for conversation. Even if the teachers endeavor to adopt the communicative language teaching approach - according to which learners acquire language proficiency while interacting (communicating) with one another - they often experience setbacks due to the principal cause ‘non – English social milieu’ and the supplementary causes like lack of adequate infrastructure, unviable teacher – student ratio in class rooms, the exclusion …show more content…
A classroom with the students of various vernacular languages is cosmopolitan in nature and therefore the utility of English language is inevitable in this sort of academic environment. The students, compelled by their emotional and education needs, communicate with one another in English in this environment. The scholastic milieu that is quite favourable for English language learning is a common phenomenon at the international educational institutes. Students will have a huge scope for the acquisition of language proficiency in this kind of cosmopolitan scholastic milieu, if they can be prevented from the narrow minded practice of regionalism and linguistic