Advantages And Disadvantages Of English Language Teaching

As we know, English is the universal language in the world and everybody knows English. Many countries use English as official language for example Singapore, Korea, Australia and Etc. According to the language of government, English was an universal language and there were 58 sovereign states and 21 non-sovereign entities. English became an official language at the local or regional level and many countries have declared English as an universal language. Since English is important nowadays therefore many schools push their students to be able to speak English in early age. Many schools try to put English program to their lesson so the students are capable to speak English fluently earlier. By speaking English fluently, the students can build

N.S. Prabhu , 1987:24 emphasized that it’s an activity which required learners to arrive at an outcome from given information through some process of thought and which allowed teachers to control and regulate that process was regarded as a task. ‘Task’ is defined by Willis (1996) as an activity where the target language is used by learners for a communicative goal in order to achieve an

English language teaching is an art that requires artistic sensibility and well trained perfectibility. Each stage of English language acquisition will present unique challenges and require unique strategies. It cannot be mastered within a particular period of time. Learning English language will take some years to be mastered. Teaching the international language inside the classroom is very difficult indeed, especially for non native speakers of the language. Various strategies have to be applied for teaching English inside the classroom and to make students use the language outside the classroom. Teaching vocabulary requires more attention. Effective ways of teaching words will enhance learning capability. Mere learning of vocabulary will not make the learning process complete. For an effective mode of communication learners should be taught to use vocabulary in authentic situation. English language teachers need to concentrate on the ways which can help and teach

Sometimes more than one method is used to bring out the anticipated outcomes in the language classroom where communication develops the key factor of teaching-learning process. Unless students learn to utilise the classroom method to express thoughts and feelings outside into the real world situations, the learning cannot be effective no matter whatever teaching method is applied in English as a Second Language classroom. Teacher- student role becomes the centre in bringing out the maximum within the limited time in a

Teaching english as a foreign language has increasingly become more important at the present time tan ever.Specially here in Mexico which has been a touristic Paradise for many foreigners and mexican nationals as well.The icrease of many multy national stores and many other corporate offices has reached a time in which the mexican people have been wanting to speak, write, listen and read english. Due to the fact of this iterrelated economic, political and educational reasons have pushed the mexican population into learning our next door neighbor’s language and ways of life per say. Nowadays there are many methodologies to teach such common but no so easy to learn language such as english.There many types of learners, some are musical some are visual learners others are linguistic learners etc. Which is the best english learner? Various studies by different researhers from different áreas of the world have discussed the issue of teaching methodologies from different angles, some have claimed that a visual learner is the best learner others say that a lingustic learner would learn english much easily than the intrapersonal or logical mathematical learner. Truth to be told is that people in mexico and other counties learn at thier own and personal pase due to different cultural backgrounds , some do need visuals others songs, some others using gramar structures but at the end a student will learn english using the intelligence which he or she possesses. Take Alejandra

Key words: Role of English teacher- language skills- task based activities- Challenges in English language teaching- solutions etc

In the contemporary world, English language has a comprehensive usage and regarded as a lingua franca that acts as a communication bridge between the speakers who speak different native languages . However, it is quiet challenging to teach this language effectively especially to those who speak English as a second or foreign language.

In the long history of language learning, especially in the case of learning English as L2, educationalists have been tirelessly trying to explore more and more practical approaches that ranged from conventional methods like Grammar translation method, Direct method, Situational Language Teaching etc., to the latest mode of communicative approach. The conventional teaching methods - the unsuccessful result of the earlier language theories, were proved to be ineffective, because it was felt in all the methods, that the learners were passive and the teaching-learning process was mechanical. Hence during the 1960s, a new trend of language teaching called Communicative Language Teaching paved its way into classrooms in the early 1960’s and has

Have you chosen one of the best ways to teach your students today? Which one did you prepare? It will be better to choose Communicative Language Teaching as one of the approaches in teaching English. Communicative Language Teaching or CLT derived from communicative competence (Hymes, 1971). It is a teaching approach which has goals, teachers and learners’ roles, process of learning language, and also can facilitate learning activities (Richards, 2006). CLT underlines interaction between students. In the Communicative Language Teaching classroom, the teacher has a role as a facilitator who will only facilitate the learning process, not become a model. Moreover, the students are going to be more active in learning the language (Richards, 2006). Thus, CLT is a

It should mostly be used to satisfy the learner’s communicative needs (p. 22). In order to make classrooms a place that gives students more opportunities for learning a language they can use for communication and not just for learning its rules, Krashen (1982) suggests that teachers should give their students enough of comprehensible input (p. 22). This term refers to the use of language that students can understand and that can help them advance one step further.

and drills, the communicative method will leave students in doubt as to the result of a class activity, which will vary according to their reactions and

This method has its roots in communicative language approach where teaching is done completely through communicative tasks rather than focusing on grammatical

More than 90% of the students at both levels believed that the communicative teaching approach focuses on speaking skills (because students are exposed to various communicative activities, such as group discussions, role playing, and debating). However, the components of communicative competence, which are linguistic, sociolinguistic, discourse and strategic competence (Dai & Chen, 2008; Hedge, 2000), and the purpose of CLT are far more complicated While Looking at English language as the accepted international means of communication and thus become the second language of non-English speaking countries, educators and governments in East Asian countries are intensively addressing the need to increase the number of people in their population who can communicate effectively in

Along with the huge demand of good communication skill in English, the traditional teaching methods focusing much on grammar and vocabulary were gradually substituted by the appearance of a novel one named Communicative Language Teaching. This method aims at enhancing learners’ “communicative competence” which requires not only grammatical, lexical knowledge but strategic, actional and socio-cultural competence as well (Celce-Murcia et al, 1995). To meet the requirements of this new teaching method, simulation has been applied in language teaching lessons in

Once there was a time in teaching English, when teachers had mainly followed the traditional approach of teaching in various universities, where the learner used to be dependent only on the lecture delivered by the teacher. The learners were not exposed sufficient practice on their own and the interaction among the learners in the classroom was almost absent. That time the main focus was on grammatical rules, memorization of vocabulary, translation of texts and doing writing exercises. Classes were also conducted in native language ‘Bangla’ with little or no use of English language.