Tuesday, 8 October 2019

Topic:- Teaching English as a Second language in India: Focus on Objectives.

Name: Kailas Gohil
Roll No:- 14
Email id:- kailasgohil1998@gmail.com
Paper No:- 12 (A English language Teaching-1)
Submitted by:- Department of English, Dilip Barad sir












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Topic:- Teaching English as a Second language in India: Focus on Objectives.

Introduction……..
ABSTRACT; After highlighting theoretical aspects of the nation “objectives of  language teaching”, we discuss the functionally-determined sub-categorization of language into First language, Second  language, Foreign language and Classical Language. We then Focus on the objectives of teaching English as a second language in India.

The Objectives of language Teaching:-
                  The  global Objectives of language Teaching can be  defined as helping children learn a language or languages  to perform a variety of functions. These range from  the  sociable use  of language for phatic communication and a network of  communication uses to it’s use at the highest level of “cognition”, and “ catharsis” and “self-expression”. Underlying these functions are two fundamental functions; helping children learn how to ask  question. The most important intellectual ability man has yet developed and helping children use this language cllectively in different social network.
             Language in a multilingual setting from a system-network. Such language  in this network has a function
Topic:- Teaching English as a Second language in India: Focus on Objectives.

determined value contrastive to the functionally-determined belies of the other language. A society or a government can assign a new value to any one of the language in the system network in terms of it’s  own policy of language planning, but the society or government must realize that this assignment of a new value to a language will produce a chain reaction in the network. The  values of the other language in the network are bound to undergo changes( Varma 1984:2).
        The notion of “Link language” or “ Lingue Franca” has an important significance in a multilingual setting, It encouraged wider mobility, national integration, and a sense of tolerance. It enricher other  language in contact acid gets enriched by  them. Effective bilingualism or linguistic repertoire  of individuals. These resources offered by plurality of  language can be used for rapid social and economic changes and modernization programed.
        Teaching is not a unidirectional process of pumping bits and pieces of unrelated and undigested gobbets of  knowledge in to empty sacks. It is  bidirectional,  international process . Learners  are not just  passive  recipients of  socially accepted language patterns. They play an active role in this teaching-learning  process. They actively  strain, filter and reorganize what they are exposed to. Their initiations are not
Topic:- Teaching English as a Second language in India: Focus on Objectives.

photographic reproductions   but artistic recreations. The  learners are meaning- makers. The main objective at  every level of teaching should be to help learners learn how to draw their latent creativity.
          Every  learners is born with a built – in language- Learning  mechanism. This  mechanism gets  activated  when  the  learners  is exposed  to that language. What  is, therefore, essential is to create an atmosphere  where Learning can  take place. Children learn the  language they hear around  them. Exposure to  a rich Varity of linguistic material is as important in first language Acquisition as in second language Learning. The teaching of English as a Second language, in particular, has  often been  less  successful than it might have been, as a result of  the  restricted  variety of linguistic contexts with which students are  provided . Learners should ideally ne exposed to a variety  of  contextualized  language materials. They must hear  and see language in action.
         The emphasis should shift from encouraging learners to  memorize  paradigms and   grammatical rules  to helping them interact  with people using  different  registers  of language and variaty of situations. In  that  proceeds the learners internalize not  only  the linguistic but also the sociolinguistic rules  of the  game, so that they capture the system which enabled them to
Topic:- Teaching English as a Second language in India: Focus on Objectives.

Focus on “what to say when and how”. It  should also enable them  to organize words in sentences and sentences  in texts effectively keeping in view ' the  topic  of discourse “ addresser-addresser relationship”, and “ socio- cultural setting”. Learning a language is not just a Question of learning to produce sente6 and utterances which are grammatical and acceptable; they must also be appropriate.
         Such of  the  four  major skills: Reading, Writing, Speaking and understanding, is composed of  a hierarchy of subskills. What is necessary  is to identity the  subskills that are to be strengthened and expanded in the process of teaching a first language, a Second language or Foreign language.
          The objective of teaching a language or language is not simply to make the learner  learn  the major language skills  but to enable the learners to  play their communicative roles  effectively and to select language/register/styles according to the roles they are playing. Every  social  person is a bundle of personas, a bundle of parts, each  part having  its  lines. If you  do not know your lines, your are no use in the play”(Frist 1957:184).
         The object in teaching a language… is to enable the learner to behave in such a way that he can participate to some degree 
Topic:- Teaching English as a Second language in India: Focus on objectives.

and for certain purposes as a member of a community what than his own. The degree to  which any particular learners may wish to  particular learner may wish to participate will vary. He may  seek only to read teachnical Literature, or he may wish to preach the gospel in a Foreign country. These varying digress of participation require different levels of skill in language performance.
            A teacher full of  life and vigour, resourcefulness and innovative power, love and understanding, can turn a full class into a lively  two-way  interactional game. A well- qualified, energetic and  inventive  teacher cam be a “ living” model, and act as the best audio- visual aid.

Functionally-determined sub- categories….
First language (L1)....
               L1 is used for performing  all the essential, personal functions. These are gradually expanded to cover all types of interpersonal  function. “In order to live, the young  human, has to be progressively  incorporated into social organization, and the main conditions of  the incorporation is sharing  the local magic –that is,  the language ( 1957:185). L1 is an indispensable instrument  of national culture the primary means for the
Topic:- Teaching English as a Second language in India: Focus on objectives.

transmission of culture crime one genre to another. “ Learning through  the mother tongue  is the most and comprehensive medium for the expression of the student personality”. (Government of India 1956), for it is Learning the all his or her future  activates else (Abercrombie1956:23). The such commission in 1902 recommended mother  tongue  as the medium   od instruction for all classes up to the higher secondary..
Second language (L2):-…….
       L2 may be used as an auxiliary or associate language, slot- filler, performing those functions which are not  norm performed by L1. For a vast majority of educated people living in and cities,  English as a Second  functions primary a  interstate or international link language. Some of them also use it a international language of knowledge, trade and industry. An import question here is: is L2 the main or associated medium of instruct all levels or at a particular  level, or is  it  taught as a subject listed our  “ other  language”?. When an “ isoglosses”  language is used  by a could  as its  official language and / or as a medium of instruction at all level  generates it’s own problems.

Topic:- Teaching English as a Second language in India: Focus on objectives.

Foreign language:………
                    It is used by a select group of leaners in a very restricted select situations. The main objectives of leanering a Foreign language is to direct access to the  speakers  these language and their cultures  enables  the  learners to participate in a Foreign society in certain and certain situations. A Foreign language like Russian is used in  Learning for absorbing the  cultural patterns of the USSR; English as a Second language is used in as an alternative way of expressing  India patterns of life.

Classical Language:-………
               A Classical Language like Sanskrit provides recess to ancie culture Learning and Philosophy of life and is assumed to contributed  the intellectual enrichment of it’s  learners. It’s real value cannot  measured in terms of wait it helps you do in everyday life  but in term of confidence  enrichment the modern language and offering “ insights” into a Varity  of linguistic problems.


Topic:-Teaching English as a Second language in India: Focus on objectives.

Conclusion:….
       
       The objective have to be formulates in the  light of what we perceive our  needs for English to be  in a multilingual setting, at both the national and  individual levels.  This  is related to the  following questions: what are the roles of Hindi, English, regional language, classical language, Foreign language, and languages of the  minority group in our  multilingual setting?. What  are the topics and situations that will necessities the use of English?. What is the kind and amount of English that learners will need.

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