Techniques to Develop English Language Skills in Classroom Situation
Abstract
These days, English language skills have become very essential in our lives. It begins mostly at school level, and goes further in college and university level- education. And English language also plays a critical role in personal, professional and social life. Even though English has been imparted in schools from the primary level of education for several years, yet there have been some predicaments while learning and developing the English language skills. In many regions in the country, the bilingual method, i.e. vernacular language and English is used by the teachers. Nonetheless, there seem to be a huge gap in English language communications and associated skills in the rural areas in particular and urban in general. This reminds the need for developing English language skill by employing effective teaching methods, approaches and techniques. The innovative techniques for developing English language skills in an effective way in the schools and colleges in rural and urban areas of Telangana are the need of the hour.
In this background, this paper discusses about some of the salient innovative techniques that are used in the classrooms by the scholar. These techniques aimed at helping the students overcome English language difficulties, learn faster, speak and write English in a more effective way. So, in order to realize this objective, the study has adopted an experimental approach. And accordingly, the scholar has taken 10th class students as a sample unit so as to carry out the aforesaid experimental study. However, in this study, the researcher has introduced like grammar translation techniques, an ICT based language technique, and a few other such teaching/learning strategies. These exercises were taught nearly a month; and after one month; a post-test was conducted for the 10th class students. In the end, the result revealed that a majority of the students have improved a lot in the case of written language, and in the case of spoken language skills, this study shows a short of positive result. This study has, indeed, reflected in their grasping ability of concepts, understanding and knowledge.
