Post on 21-Aug-2015
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Communicative English in Urban, Semi Urban and Rural India
• Mostly school education is provided in regional languages.
• At college level, Competitive examination and for Employment English speaking and understanding of the same is a prerequisite.
• This disadvantage leads to disillusion and also affects the economic growth
Challenge:
Facts – not able to speak English:
• Regional language is common and always spoken in daily life.
• Teachers are not properly trained and are not confident.
• Teacher students ratio is causing ineffectiveness.
• Students do not have exposure to English apart from school syllabus.
Objective • Language is best learned at a younger
age.
• Students need to learn communicative English at young age.
• Learning is through Listening—Speaking—Reading—Writing ( LSRW)
• Parents’ involvement will help their learning too.
Learning Method • Listening—teacher speaks and students listen
• Speaking—Students repeat, chant, practice, Role play
• Reading—Read through specially designed books
• Vocabulary—Vocabulary will improve through LSRW
• Grammar—Grammar will improve through listening, reading and sentence formation.
• Writing—learn to write
Technology Barrier
• Unreliable electricity
• Irregular or no connectivity of internet
• Cannot use smart boards or digital support.
• High cost involved to overcome these problems
Infrastructure
• No separate infrastructure is required
• Preplanned lessons to be taught in respective classrooms as per the designed curriculum.
• Parents’ mobile phones to be preloaded with practice lessons (Audio)
Good Pedagogy
• Teachers training in advance –for next six months curriculum
• More focus on learning and it’s outcome
• Easy, enjoyable, useful, practical curriculum to arouse interest in learner
• Age wise curriculum to have smooth flow in learning
Teachers play an important role
• All English teacher to go through training program
• One teacher for 350 to 400 students
• Teacher needs to attend the training (3 to 5 working days)
• Maximum 30 teachers per training schedule
• Assessments and Role plays based professional training for attending teachers.
Teaching and Learning
• Lessons to be taught as per the preplanned course in schools.
• 3 to 5 hours of teaching in a week for each classroom as per age group.
• Play and learn for 1st to 5th standard.
• Students to understand, learn in school and listen to lessons on mobile phones for access, whenever convenient when they’re at home.
What do we achieve? • Student will develop confidence to speak in English
(Global Language).
• Parents will be satisfied that their child speaks in English
• English is a user language through which children will make use of computers to access information online/offline.
• Students become competent to participate in competitive exams.
• Lot of opportunities for local employment.
Cost involved for delivering this program
• Government needs to provide teachers with training infrastructure
• Government needs to provide refreshments for participants for all the training days.
• Regular periodic teacher’s training, manuals and assessment
• Lessons recording in parent’s mobile phone
• All required books and material for students and teachers
• Regular periodic assessment of teachers and students
• Close looped system to assess the performance and correction
• Development guaranteed with responsibility and accountability.
Flow of program Learning 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
Listening √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Speaking/
Repeating
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Reading √ √ √ √ √ √
Grammar √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Vocabulary √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Writing will be included in subjects