Advantages And Disadvantages Of Teaching By Gujarati Medium Students

With the increasing number of students that do not use English as their first language in schools today, especially high school students, teachers and students alike have been faced with challenges that have made slow and mostly unpleasant; the transition and settling in of the students and the adaptation to them by the teachers.

In their opinion in countries that English is not their native language it has negative impact on culture and mother tongue. However, there are many reasons that demonstrated that use of English as a medium of instruction have positive impact on everyone’s life. As a study clearly says that student has the ability and skills to learn many languages (Begg, 2012). He adds that teaching a language in schools as a first or second language qualitatively vary because if all higher-study materials are in English so students to needs to be proficient in that language and that transition is smooth from school to college or college to university. In addition he clearly mentioned that” Junking English as a medium of education will only push us back”. For instance, there are many people he studied in English that now became successful in their life, Indira Gandhi, Jyoti Basu, Ratan Tata, Sunil Gavaskar, Amitabh Bachchan and a million of people who are leaders and successful (Begg, 2012). Therefore, all of these researches widely declare that English as a medium of instruction has benefits to improve educational system of and to develop a country that English is not their native

1. To analyse English instructional materials (syllabuses and course books) for YL in terms of raising their language awareness and teaching grammatical categories.

Through the readings this week it has been reinforced to me that language is an important aspect of life which is used in many different ways in our day-to-day life. Gee and Hayes (2011), view “language as something physically present in the world” and “is present in the form of speech, audio recordings, and writings believing language is a material object”, (p.6).

In this country good command on English is most important to communicate but most of the students from Saudi Arabia are not good in English. As a result it becomes difficult for them to communicate with non-Arabic speakers’ comfortably. This implies that learning also becomes difficult for these students as lessons in the institution are also offered in English. In that capacity, our organization embarks on giving English lessons to the members that helps them in getting better in English language. The classes for the same are held at the Islamic centre after the ordinary school classes every evening. Amid the initial couple of days or weeks after the landing of new students in the institution, providing this administration is ordinarily exceptionally troublesome as we are compelled to go about as translators to the students, particularly those with no information of English whatsoever. I learnt from my own experience at the organization as a Saudi student that the new students face issues in both communication as well as written English. They are neither capable of pronouncing English words nor writing these words in a correct way. It results in making communication extremely troublesome. Accordingly, I customize my lessons to focus on pronunciation and sentence development and on composition as well. Students are given a lot of reading material for pronunciation and

Language is an indispensable tool for communication. This is universally known fact. English has become a global language in the era of globalization. It is a linkage and is used vastly in all Indian and foreign libraries. The aim of teaching English in the secondary schools is to promote its pupils with sufficient knowledge of English and to aid them in their future studies and build confidence to find a suitable job. If we come to the present context, English is the language that is found in all corners of India. Now it is the language of the global trade.

After read many studies, there are many methods for gathering data for Indian English analysis, such as informal observation, small group discussions, personal interviews, documentary analysis, and the participants are from different

Learning of English and communication skills in high school and colleges has helped in developing positive attitude towards English and thus boost learning process. Students at all levels not only take the initiative to study the language, but also practice it often. Teachers inspire and guide learners to advance their level of proficiency in English. There are various perspectives which this goal is achieved. First, the student’s attitude is determined because it enables the assessment of the effectiveness of the method used for teaching students about the English language (The National Commission

73.2% of the students admitted that they lost their motivation to learn English because their English proficiency is poor (item 4). This could be because the students’ English language skills were not being well developed during their secondary or high school education experience. Four interviewees (66.7%) conceded that their English skills were poor, especially listening and speaking skills although two of them stated that their knowledge of grammar is so-so. In other words, a person with low English proficiency had a lot of difficulty in learning English and often left behind classmates, which leads to their demotivation in the English

Since I was a young child, my parents have been communicating with me in English. They have always encouraged me to study, especially with new languages. I have learned to speak three languages from my childhood. I realize that I can develop these three languages at the same time, but English, I find it very necessary. Therefore, I have decided to develop English as my first choice. In developing my English skills, I have used three simple steps.

Language has been labelled a core or basic property of humanity (Gee & Hayes, 2011). It plays a dominant role in the experiences of everyday life. Language allows us to express our needs and wants, allows us to understand and display our thoughts and is central to social interaction.

Reports show that there has been an increase of students who fail English language in the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination every year. As English is a compulsory subject, this is a disturbing development. There are factors that can explain the reasons behind students’ failure in English language. Such factors include the students’ background or their own attitude to their school work, the teachers’ attitude or methods of teaching, the government, psychosocial and environmental

With the development of living standard in society, studying aboard has become more and more popular. Not only because of English as the world language is an agent to connect countries, but also speaking English fluently will be beneficial for the future personal development. In order to study oversea smoothly, the first step is to go through the language--English. Generally speaking, English has been divided into two different types according to the purposes which are English for Academic Purpose (EAP) and General English (GE). It is obvious that EAP teaches the knowledge which will be suitable for a higher education whereas GE is mainly focus on daily communications. Therefore, the teaching style or perhaps teacher’s role in the class is also different. In this essay, the writer will illustrate two different classifications by Harmer and Scrivener, after compare and contrast the two the teacher’s role, the writer will select one of the classification and justify it. Finally, the chosen classification will be put into practice ( justifying with the radios provided).

In many countries around the world, English is being learned only by those who can afford instruction in it. Not being able to afford such instruction can close many doors, particularly with regard to accessing higher education. (p. 24）

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.