Teaching Perspectives

 Que 1.   How would you teach language skills (L S R W) to the students of UG level (students belonging to rural level)?

Listening skill

·         Classroom instruction in English

·         Classroom communication in English only

·         Teacher will narrate stories, small events or daily activities in class

·         Will encourage to listen Cricket Commentary, News, stories in English at home

·         Arrange listening activities like Questions after Dialogue, comprehending Public instructions at Railway station, airport, Bus station etc

Speaking Skill

·         Classroom instruction in English

·         Classroom communication in English only

·         students will be encouraged to narrate stories, small events or daily activities in class

·         Will arrange activities like Roleplay, dialogue-delivery etc

·         Will suggest students to try to speak in English with friends and family members

(In all above tasks, Mi8stakes are allowed, encouragement is important to reduce fear)

Reading Skill

·         Will introduce alphabets and their pronunciations

·         Will teach word to sentence reading

·         Teacher will Provide model reading to the students

·         Encourage silent reading in the classroom

·         Will give tasks to read product wrappers, newspaper, magazine, story

(At the first stage pronunciation is emphasized and then comprehension)

 Writing Skill

·         Listing Loan words with correct spelling

·         Developing own pocket dictionary by listing words

·         Noting down new words and their meaning while reading

·         Narrating daily activities, incidents, experience

·         Writing answers of GK based Wh- questions

·         Group activities like peer reviewing the written work

·         Paragraph writing once in a week

·         Teacher will show writing mistakes to the class and explain the mistakes 

Que 2.   What would you do to improve pronunciation of students?

·         Introducing alphabets and their pronunciation in term of phonetics

·         Ideal pronunciations by teacher in classroom communication

·         Correcting mistakes in students’ pronunciations

·         Developing habit of searching both pronunciation and meaning of new words in    dictionary

·         Develop habit of speaking with correct pronunciations 

Que 3.   How would you teach English grammar to the UG students?

·  Improve pre-knowledge of students

     ·  Teach Grammar by inductive or deductive method (Whatever is appropriate)

Inductive method= (example to Sentence pattern)

Deductive method= (sentence pattern to Example)

·     Use sentences and examples which are familiar to students

Que 4.   How would you teach English language through using literature (short stories, essays, articles, short novels)?

Literary texts provide opportunities for multi-sensorial classroom experiences and can appeal to learners with different learning styles. Texts can be supplemented by audio-texts, music CDs, film clips, podcasts, all of which enhance even further the richness of the sensory input that students receive.

 Literary texts offer a rich source of linguistic input and can help learners to practise the four skills - speaking, listening, reading and writing - in addition to exemplifying grammatical structures and presenting new vocabulary.

Some activities

·         Noting down important words, sentences from the work and applying into Speaking and writing

·         Dialogue speaking practice

·         Role play

·         Narrating the event or summery in own words

·         Teachers can introduce the topic or theme of the text, pre-teach essential vocabulary items and use prediction tasks to arouse the interest and curiosity of students.

·         Comparing levels of language of same writer or different writers in their work

Draw attention to stylistic peculiarity.

·         Showing the ways that writers use language to achieve particular effects