Teaching Pedagogy for SIow Learners to Learn English Grammar

Global Expert: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra

The aims of this research were to determine student’s problems in pronunciation, especially consonants, vowels, and diphthongs. The participants of this study were the second-semester students of the Indo Global Mandiri English Education Study Program. The researcher chose second-semester students because students had understood the phenomenon of pronunciation and they have taken IEC: Pronunciation courses. There were 23 students involved in this research. The data were collected by conducting direct meetings through a performance test that used three forms of tests such as pronounced 44 sentences, pronounced 31 minimal pairs, pronounced one passage with mixed sounds, and their voices made by the students were recorded by mobile phone. The data showed that in fact, most of the students have problems with pronunciations. It is found that the students had problems in pronouncing the English sounds of consonant [v], [θ], [ð], vowel [æ], [ÊŒ], [É”:] and diphthong [eɪ], [oÊŠ], [Ð...

International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education , 2022

Communication skills in English have become very essential in this Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revolution era. People who have effective communication skills in English have better opportunities to either receive or disseminate knowledge. Almost entire higher education is being offered only in English and to communicate with people in a highly diversified country like India is once again through English. For most of the students studying in state run schools, the status of oral and written communication skills is poor. The teachers and the students including the educational administrators prefer communicating in their mother tongue than to communicate in English. Much of the time, communication in English is influenced by mother tongue or local dialect in every part of India. The development of communication skills among students can be effectively understood by the materials and methodology of learning and teaching English language, and it is keenly observed from the communication point of view. This paper will help the teachers to introspect their methods and methodology in imparting communication skills among the students. It will help the administrators and the authorities to plan suitable methods for teaching communication skills to students from L2 learners. This will throw new challenges to the teachers.

Modern Journal of Studies in English Language Teaching and Literature

There has been growing discontent over the English language competency of graduates in the past few years. Many surveys conducted by various agencies have reaffirmed the fact that Indian graduates lack good communication skills in English. In a globalized tech-dependent world today, English language proficiency has become mandatory to attain success in any field. There were questions about the reasons for the lack of English proficiency of Indian graduates inspite of their English education both in school and college. This research study attempted to explore how English is taught in schools and the various factors that impact the teaching-learning process in schools.

JPPM Kepri: Jurnal Pengabdian dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Kepulauan Riau

In this study, researchers will examine students' problems in pronunciation errors in English and the causes of students' errors in English pronunciation. This study aims to determine the pronunciation errors and the causes of errors in pronunciation made by students in speaking English. This research is descriptive qualitative research that aims to describe students' pronunciation errors and the causes of students' pronunciation errors. The subjects of this study were second-semester students of the English language study program at the University of Bhinneka PGRI. The reason the researcher chooses this subject is the first subject that the researcher wants to examine and understand because there are some students who experience pronunciation errors and the researcher wants to know where the pronunciation errors are and what causes make their pronunciation errors. Based on the results of observations, the researchers found that students' problems in speaking Eng...

2014

English is taught as a second language in India. Due to its ever growing needs in everywhere in the world, it is given due importance in Indian universities also. The recent anti-English campaign in some parts of India has hardly affected its status, and the importance has not lessened in any way. However, the learning and teaching of English in the Indian classrooms need improvement. Teachers of English in India need further training and tools to improve their sincere efforts. Hence this paper highlights the challenges encountered by the teachers and learners in the teaching/learning of spoken English and also suggests some remedial measures to overcome those problems. <531-542>

Journal of Language and Linguistics in Society, 2021

This paper investigates and analysis the common interference of mother tongue, were committed by the students who are native of Tamil language, in writing English as a second language. The purpose of this current study is to reveal the common interference of the first language Tamil with its rules and structures in writing ESL. This study was conducted by using the qualitative research method and an essay was taken, from the participants, as a tool of this study. Data were collected from 50 Advanced level students who study at the government schools and these written samples were gathered from the Tamil native students who passed English language in their O/Level examination. The collected data were analyzed and identified the interference of mother tongue,in writing English as a second language, are in punctuation, capitalization, spelling, vocabulary, wrong use of pronoun, word order or sentence structure, preposition, conjunction and adjective. Besides this study will help to our students to develop their writing skills of L2, also to correct them. As well, this article will assist the teachers of ESL to approach the students in learning English as a second language.

Jadila: Journal of Development and Innovation in Language and Literature Education, 2020

This paper examines the present status of English as a second language in India. It defines language and identifies the factors that affect second language learning. It discusses different problems faced by learners of English and what is the right way of language acquisition for second language learners in India. Language acts as an instrument to express effectively in various communicative situations. However, it is the very second language which requires a conscious and diligent, systematic efforts to acquire or master it. Second language acquisition is really a big challenge for all native speakers of that language who really deal with it. The majority of Indian students, particularly from rural pockets, especially in the states of Bihar, eastern U.P. and Maharashtra, consider this seven –letter word as a magical and mystical word. A feeling of uneasiness sets in, the moment they hear something in English. As a result of this, teachers who handle English classes face insurmounta...

This study refers to the use of speech functions in English classroom interaction. The writer considers what types of speech function in English classroom interaction are important to be analyzed to know how the speech function is used in mentor-student classroom interaction and to show the most dominant types of speech function used in classroom interaction. The type of research used in this study used a qualitative descriptive approach. The research instruments were observation (nonparticipant observers) and interviews. The data analysis method used in this study refers to the theory of Miles and Huberman. Based on the results of the research, this study is that by analyzing the speech function used by English mentors during teaching, the researcher found the fact that James Holmes' theory of speech function has 6 namely expressive, directive, referential, metalinguistic, Phatic, and poetic. However, after this research was conducted, not all elements of the speech function were used by English mentors. The researchers could only figure out five of six kinds of speech functions. They are expressive, directive, referential, metalinguistic, and Phatic. So, the researchers found that English mentors were more dominant in using Expressive utterances, which was 36%.

Teaching English in India is not without challenges. But challenges are neither frustrating nor insurmountable. Teaching without challenges is dull and unproductive. Challenges encourage teachers to undertake action research. Results of action research can be applied to overcome challenges. The challenges range from the position of English in India, materials consumption and production, methods of teaching, blending, testing and evaluation, continuous professional development and training, learning styles, learner motivation, diverse socioeconomic linguistic backgrounds of learners, medium of instruction in schools, different school boards backgrounds, amount of exposure to English, the influence of L1, ill-trained English teachers in schools, English teachers with rich literature background in their degree programmes but without knowledge of applied linguistic areas, such as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, contrastive analysis and error analysis, and to theoretical linguistics branches, such as phonetics and phonology, semantics, and syntax. There is a general tendency among important stakeholders of English language education to play the blame game neatly without anyone of them owning responsibility for the dismal performance of students in acquiring communicative competency. The present study is intended to be a reflective, inductive research on the basis of inputs from the teaching fraternity and aims at making it analytical and descriptive.

The teaching of English as a second language has always been a challenge for teachers. In India, we have large classrooms with more students coming from non-English speaking background. Their economic condition is not favourable and schools and institutes are not really equipped for teaching language properly. Students learn English as a Subject from the beginning of their schooling. This makes their understanding of language poor. English has to be taught as a language, not as a subject. A language can be learnt by three genres: Reading, Writing and Speaking. Mainly the genre that effects is Pronunciation. Students learn to speak all by their own without expert speaking aid. Teachers also face problems of large classrooms so they can't give attention to each student and their pronunciation.Literature has its sublimity whereas language as a responsibility. Language teaching is not only for teaching, learning or passing the examination but for communicative purposes. The paper is...