This
blog is a part of our ELT-1 class activity,
Þ The references has been
taken from the research paper of R. K. Singh : “Teaching of English – A plea
for practical attitude”
In this research paper R. K. Singh has requested
every teacher and student to treat English practically. His focus is more upon
teacher that how far teachers are able to make learning more need based,
flexible and innovative.
English is linked language before and
after independence, about 750 million people around the world use it either as
a first or second language. R. K. Singh has started his paper with positive
points of English and then he described the serious facts of learning and
teaching English language, as per him English is not only a global language but
it is a language of prestige, it is an official language which is widely preferred
by people around the world. He requests Indians to have English language as a ‘neutral
language’.
Practical attitude suggests that
teaching should have an approach which contains tolerance and flexibility with
learners. There are language tensions in India because India is a multilingual country,
with almost 1650 languages and more than 200 dialects.
He make remarks that, every teacher
after adopting this attitude should think about their role as a teacher of
second language, and how they can contribute in the life of learner with the
help of second and third language.
He has given three aims to teach well:
1) Encourage a teaching
programme that is responsive to their specific needs
2) Pursue such teaching activities
from which pupils know they are learning something useful.
3) Adopt a flexible
learning approach.
Practical approach first focuses upon
the need of learners, and the first need is to communicate in second language
with intelligent interaction. Teacher should encourage learners to use language
at all levels and reading serious texts to every conversation. As per R. K.
Singh, language can be understood only when thinking enters in the mind of
students, so the teacher should give a challenging tasks to learners. English can
also be practiced in its Indian version. He differentiated method and approach
by saying that,
“Approach is flexible but method is rigid”
He has concluded his paper by saying
that the teacher of language should be active in teaching, s/he should create
an atmosphere in which learners do not feel bore and as a teacher s/he should evaluate
his/her own approach so teaching can be improved.
Thus,
in this research paper R. K. Singh has given an approach to use practical attitude
so learner and teacher both could get their goal.
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