Effectiveness of English Language Curriculum in Secondary Schools of Telangana: A Critical Study of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation Method

Abstract

Taking steps to improve teaching and learning in order to help students grow as whole people has always been a challenge in education, especially in English language teaching. CCE is a form of evaluation that aims to give students immediate feedback on how well they are learning and keep the focus on the students' learning needs and the context in which they are learning. It is also meant to help students find joy in learning as they try to understand the world every day. It is based on the idea that a teacher can do assessment at the beginning of a lesson, while teaching and learning, and at the end of a lesson, unit, or session without making it obvious. It should help teachers see what their students already know and correct their naive ideas. This could give the students a chance to think about their own learning in light of the feedback they got from the teacher's continuous evaluation and from self-evaluation and reflective exercises. If their simple ideas aren't talked about and fixed, they will continue to get in the way of learning. The longer they don't get challenged, the more deeply they become part of their thinking. The NCERT (2013) states that teaching and learning to be useful, the teacher has to catch, challenge, and change their simple ideas. In a learner-centred classroom, the learning process and experiences of the students are more important than the things they have learned. Instead of focusing on their learning problems, teachers focus on their strengths and abilities. The present article focuses on CCE methods with a view to finding if these methods enable the teachers improve the English language proficiency of the learners.