1. Analyses the generic structure of the article
The article is discussing the Western training and Communicative language teaching and mainly it argues about the impact of these teachings on a person who belongs from other languages. The role of TESOL is important here and the opinion and views of the other language teachers have been described. The discussion made in paper is in a proper and significant manner that is holding a generic structure for understanding. On the very first the paper is giving an overall summary of discussion in form of abstract that is describing about the main theme of article that is the problems in English language. As the writer has focused on the Bangladeshi English teachers so they provided an overview
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2) Summarize the main ideas Demand for competent English language users has been increasing in many countries like Bangladesh and for this purpose English language teaching (ELT) has been increasing. According to the increasing demand of competent English users and teachers the teachers of English language are adopting communicative language teaching (CLT), the best way to learn English language skills. With respect to current knowledge, teachers lack in CLT skills. In this scenario, the encouragement of competent English language users is going through many stages in Bangladesh. These stages involve the communication barrier and the cultural difference among people belonging from the other organizations.
The main and prominent objective of this paper and all of the discussion is to talk about the perception and ideology of Bangladeshi teachers. They are working to reduce and minimize the different problems associated with the teachers of other languages. The Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages(TESOL) is the association that is working on teaches of other languages and also on the teachers that have training from the Western Countries. It can be understood by the analysis of Bangladeshi population where almost 98% of the population is speaking Bengali. With the increasing demand of business market and job market, there is the great need
In this research, I’m going to focusing on the English as a language is being taught in many countries oversea today including Thailand. In fact, you’ll be surprising to know that English is required for many of the students in many countries. Unfortunately, it is not necessarily taught as well as it could be because of heavy teaching load, class sizes and adequate technology. Learning an English today still's has been challenging for many countries and specifically in Thailand. In Thailand, the student often gets too overwhelmed with English and mentally tune out in the classroom because English was their least favorite subjects. On the other hand, the students don’t have a resource at school or they don’t have it enough. Furthermore, many students just go to English class and switch back to Thai as soon as they out of school. English isn't used locally in Thailand. Although, there still a lot students continue care about English language because English has been the most ordinarily utilized language internationally and the language of traffic control and the majority of academic journals. It’s the most common language on the internet and the language that travelers use to communicate with different native speakers.
English language becomes a part of our life in various aspects such as business, education, economic, social culture and others. As we known that our country is one of favorite destination for the tourists and the language that we use to communicate with them is English language which is widely spoken. Since English has influent in our life and it still have problems in both teachers and students. The main reason that we always have heard from the others is we have our own language, we can communicate with other people in country easily so, it is unnecessary to learn other language. It is wrong idea of those people, but the true reason maybe come from our teaching approach that different areas also
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
English plays a big role in managing Malaysian’s everyday life. Students in Malaysia might face difficulty in learning English as it is not the first language among them. Marlyna, Tan and Khazriyati’s (2007) study on interference effect of Bahasa Malaysia in the acquisition of English literacy among Form One students discovered that most of the students have difficulty in using the correct English grammar, and made mistakes in the usage of articles and subject-verb agreement. In addition, the problems in speaking, listening, or even to interact with their teacher are also the commons problem faced by the
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.
Firstly, there is a crisis about the shortage of text and books that are available in other languages. Due to the lack of resources available in other languages, it creates obstacles to ensure proper teaching to children. “I work with young people who speak
English has undergone some changes in relation to its status in the world. Some years ago, it only became the first or second language for several countries. Nowadays, alongside with the development of information, communication, and technology the status of English becomes a lingua franca in the world. That is, a language that is used as a means of communication between people with different language. This change, of course, brings some impacts in the roles of English as a language. English is not seen as a language for identity anymore. Yet, it functions mainly as a means of communication. Added to this, the change of the English status as a lingua franca will also impact to the educational sector especially in English Language Teaching (ELT). With regard to this issue, this paper tries to present the notion of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and its implication to the teaching learning process especially in Indonesian context.
A widely used method for language learning in Bangladeshi schools isGrammar TranslationMethod (GTM) and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). Grammar Translation Method is a very traditional methodand I think in more or less in all medium schools it is mainly used. When we visit two schools, teachers were also use Grammar Translation Method and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)for teaching the students. From my point of view, in our Bangladeshi culture especially beginner level of students need appropriate use of both native language (L1) and target language (L2) and for that reason Grammar Translation Method and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), both are suitable. Also in Asian part of the world the parents are very conscious about
It serves as the primary language of the ubiquitous and all-influential World Wide Web, latest version applications, programs and freeware, shareware, peer- to- peer, social media networks and websites. Furthermore, English is of vital importance for higher education and specialized training. English is the medium of instruction in most universities and higher education institutes of the world. Skill to read and write English aptly is very much important, especially for higher studies in a foreign country and also for good standard of books as well as study materials. It is quite untrue to say that the books accessible in diverse mother tongues are of poor quality; however, it is a fact that the books obtainable in English on diverse matters are in wider choice. Apart from these, English is important for access to world media and entertainment. Satellite channels around the world telecast news and views in English. The art, tradition, culture and life style of any country can be understood fairly well if we have knowledge of the English
Students can learn language skills very quickly by participating in different activates like JAM, Debate, Extempore, Role-play, Mock- Group Discussions, vocabulary games presentations, seminars etc. so teacher should be confident and competent to lead the students towards proficient in English language. They become proficient in English by learning language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). It is great challenge to the Modern English teacher to make the students expert in English. This paper aims at to discuss role of English teacher, challenges in teaching English language in modern era and ways to learn language skills through different sources.
This course is for urban as well as rural people. This course is for students, housewives, retired or working people who lack communication skills. For personal development, they need to improve their language ability. This course will cater those people who want to learn this language for social needs, migration purpose. For example, when a person goes to restaurants like Subway, CCD or KFC, he or she faces the problem at the counter as the person on the counter is speaking good English. The customer is unable to explain his requirements about the food, he wants. They hesitate and take the order according to service to save themselves from embarrassment. In this course, our target is to meet the needs of those people who do not have background of English, who do not have environment to speak in English. The people who want to learn for general requirements, social needs and status symbol. Conversational English is survival communication. For example, parents who are not good in English face problems during admission process in schools, during parent-teacher meetings and while interacting with their own children who are good at
When students learn the language they have to improve it with good grammar and rich vocabulary. It is assumed this is not the final purpose. The learner has to be able to use language but also he has to possess other skills and abilities which he will need. Sometimes learners are good at listening and speaking and we cannot say for them that they are good at English. It also happens that some learners do better in reading and writing than in listening and speaking, it means thay can easily read and write, but they can hardly communicate. They are not able to express themselves with their own words. One teacher is not able to change the educational system but he can improve learning using methods which helps learners to enrich their knowledge. If learners want to use the language properly they have
Having in mind the topic of this article, Nihat (2008) explains the importance of acquiring communicative competences inside the classrooms as an important fact of English Language Teaching. He stated that more than grammatical rules and structures, students should know how to use their second language, in order to
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).