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The IMPORTANCE of English and the MYTHS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.Why English? I mean, what is the Importance of English?.According to Rajeev Dixit, Baba Raamdev (and several other public figures) when China and Japan can do everything in their mother tongue, why cannot we? According to them, English language should be abolished from India..We have four Vedas which are said to contain the entirety of knowledge. We have Mahabharat, Raamayan, Geeta, Kaamsutra and what not!.Cultureas they call it, however I am sure that learning English is like leaving or killing our culture. I am sure, Vivekanand must have thought painstakingly before making a decision to learn English..As far as I have understood, the essence of four Vedas is Vasudhaiv kutumbakum entire universe is one family..And therefore I would say, what to talk of English, learn ALL the languages; because, after all the entire universe is one family..But before beginning to learn a different language, learn your mother tongue properly, and the mastery of your mother tongue allows you to have a better grasp over the second language. And it is a SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN fact..Now I will give yousome reasons why learning English is good..1. You will be more employable.2. You will be able to work anywhere across the globe.3. You will be considered an intellectual (and an educated) fellow.4. It is easier to milk the internet resources if you are acquainted with English5. Almost everything worth reading/listening/watching is in English or translated in it, and it can be experienced only if you know English.6. You can access or be accessed by most of people if you know English.....How to learn English?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ask anyone. I want to improve my communication skills (or Learn English) and the people (even those who do not know anything) will bombard you with suggestions like these..1. Read English newspapers (magazines)..2. Read English literature (or Novels)..3. Watch English movies..4. Listen to English songs..5. Master grammar (Solve one exercise daily from Wren & Martin)..6. Join some English classes..7. Learn one word daily from the Oxford Dictionary..I am anincorrigible believerof the fact that communication skills (or Learning English) cannot be acquired by doing any one or all the above mentioned activities. Let me give you the reasons for my belief...1. The importance of reading newspapers..This suggestion is given by almost everyone. My only question to anyone who suggests this is, WHAT have you learnt by this method? In fact nothing is as detrimental to learning English as reading newspapers..Most of the newspaper/magazines use very difficult words to show elitism. They avoid using common words..They purposely construct complicated and complex sentence structures. Their sentences are extremely long and confusing. .They use some very unfamiliar idioms and phrases. Readers have to read and re-read several sentences several times to decipher the meaning. Even the most dedicated English teacher will not make any effort to decode the morning newspaper..They situate words of Barrons Vocabulary List in the sentences. They write to IMPRESS and not to INFORM..I am reading The Hindu newspaper from the past 20 years, and it is terrorizing me with its English since then. And with constant use of such English it is depleting its readers base. It never uses the English language in the way, it should be used. That is for everyday give and take..Forget it pick any English newspaper, read its editorial, and you will see a lot of ancient sentence structures filled will excessive abstract nouns, adverbs and adjectives. Every word carefully chosen and written to confuse the readers. .People do not want this, they are busy. They want everything to be simple..Do not blame them!!!.It is not their fault. Every editor has to give one article everyday. And because they have to write everyday, they have to write on those topics also about which they do not know anything. So they take help from google. But being an editor they cannot simply Cut-Copy-Paste it. Therefore they replace the actual words with their synonyms and put several words to hide their ignorance. (which is what I am doing right nowJ).If it comes to plain simple English, Central Chronicle and the TIMES OF INDIA are bests..You might be thinking if The Hindu is that bad, why at all, I read it?.All the Reading Comprehension passages for all the Competitive Exams held in India appear from it. Thats why?..2. The importance of reading English literature (or novels)..This is the second most popular suggestion. .My question is, HOW can you learn current usage of English by reading the English which was prevalent 400 years ago? How by studying Shakespeare can you learn English?.There is something about English authors and Indian authors which you need to understand..Indian AuthorsEnglish Authors

Try to impress by using heavy words.Try to use everyday expressions.

Write primarily in PASSIVE VOICE.Write primarily in ACTIVE VOICE.

Still use the English which was used during the British RaajUse conversational form.

Deliberately construct complex sentences.Automatically construct simple sentences, which are easier to understand.

Useless for learning English.Very useful for learning English.

..3. The importance of watching English movies..1. Because it is interesting (most of the times you want to know what is being said) it is easier to grasp.2. You get to know what sort of English is spoken by the native speaker in day-to-day conversations.3. You get to know the daily expressions (Idioms and Phrases) thus you become more confident and fluent.4. However, initially (and at times) you would not be able to understand what is being said, and you have to try hard, but it trains your ears best.5. Initially, it is a good idea to watch movies with English subtitles...4. Listen to English songs..It is a bad idea. And it has nothing to do with learning English...5. Master GRAMMAR (Solve one exercise daily from Wren & Martin)..All of us know at least one language. Now, understand that the faculty to converse requires a great deal knowledge of the grammar of the language..As a native speaker you can form the most complicated structures of sentences without even MASTERING the grammar of your mother tongue..Which Grammar book?.It is simply like doing mechanical engineering to learn riding a bike..Language is skill, and a skill is acquired by DOING. And you must understand that usage comes first and usage rules. Before that understand what is Grammar? Grammar is the whole system and structure of a language in general. That is to say that if enough people start making a mistake, the mistake will be accepted as an exception to the rule..Therefore, avoid those teachers who are purists the teachers who insist on CORRECT GRAMMAR..So. Should I give up learning anything related to grammar in any sense?.No. Learn IDIOMS and PHRASES...6. Join some English classes..Before you even think of it, let us do some general calculation..Almost all English classes have 20 to 200 students. With 20 students in a class and 90 minutes of total time, you will get...90 minutes 20 students = 4 minutes 30 seconds per day..But usually, a teacher has to spend 15 minutes in introducing the topic and 15 minutes to correct the mistakes and explain it..60 minutes 20 students = 3 minutes per day..Therefore, you will get to use English for 3 minutes per day..And at what cost?.The fee ranges from 300/- per month to 5000/- per month..Usually all English classes are closed on Saturdays and Sundays, and thus in a week, you will get.15 minutes per week, that is just1 hour per month.Ridiculous!!!.Also think about trainers attention..100% attention 20 students = 5% of the total attention. Right???.Wait I have still more venom to vomit..Have you thought oftravel expenses? To be on the safer side let us assume it to be500/- per month..There are some magicians also who claim to Teach PHILUENT English in 70 / 80 / 90 hours..Ask them that you want to talk to 4 or 5 students whom they have taught..Ask them, who will learn English in 70 / 80 / 90 hours? English medium students or Hindi medium students?.They say they give individual attention. When the very course is not designed specifically for individuals, how can they give individualized attention to an individual who is sitting in a class of 20 to 200 individuals?.Now, understand that in order to have fluency and speaking influentially you need to practice speaking under an experts supervision, but even after spending 90 minutes in class and 30 minutes (at least) in travel (2 hours in total) you are getting a practice of how many hours?.3 minutes per day..How wonderful!!!.You might say that we also learn by hearing. But usually all the students in a batch have more or less the same level. Therefore there is not much benefit..And on top of that you cannot go to class everyday!!!.If you want to learn from a teacher, hire a private tutor. Though it is expensive but it is worth the money. Ask him to teach you 2 hours a day. This will give you the desirable practice of speaking...7. Learn one word daily from the Oxford Dictionary..Some English teachers suggest students to learn at least 10 words daily from the dictionary. Some also suggest to construct sentences on those words. They also suggest carrying flash cards with just one word written on it, and carry it everywhere. Do you think you will write 10 (or 20) words everyday and carry those flash cards all the time?.I do not think it suits me. Moreover, my acquaintances/friends/colleagues will LAUGH at me..I prefer people to think that I do not know anything about English. And then all of a sudden (after a secret practice of 5 or 6 months) they should see me speaking FLAWLESS, INFLUENTIAL and FLUENT English. I want to astonish all of them with my command over the language..It should seem effortless. People should not see how much effort I have put, they should see me as a very intelligent person for whom learning everything is easy..Secondly, it is very difficult to remember words which are not related. And it is very easy to learn words by association. That is to say if you learn words which are related to a particular topic like marriage, family, disaster, school, you can learn and remember the words far more easily..Most of the teachers do not know that the words to be taught are selected based on their frequency of use, the teachability and their penetration among masses. As an English teacher, I never teach words which most of the people cannot understand. I prefer teaching those words which most of the people are familiar with. Unless of course my students are preparing for some competitive exams...What makes learning of words difficult?.There are essentially4 types of words..1.Homographs~ written same, pronounced differently..e.g.bow- to bend at the waist / the front of a boat / a pair of tied loopslead- to go first with followers behind/a type of metalminute- 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour/extremely smallproject- a plan or proposal/to throw or hurl forward/to cause a shadow or image to fall upon a surfacerefuse- waste or garbage/to reject or decline to acceptsecond- 1/60th of a minute/after the first.2.Homonyms~ written same, pronounced same..e.g.Bear - animal / carryLean- thin / rest againstSkip - to jump / to miss outMiss - unmarried woman / to overlookType - to write via keyboard / type a sortTrain- a VEHICLE / to teachFair - appearance / fair / reasonableLie - horizontal position / falsehoodLead - metal / start off in front.3.Homophones~ pronounced same, but written differently.e.g.Accept (to receive) and Except (excluding)Ad (advertisement) and Add (short for addition)Aid (to assist) and Aide (an assistant)Band (a group) and Banned (forbidden)Capital (city) and Capitol (wealth and resources)Die (to become dead) and Dye (coloring agent)Elicit (to bring out) and Illicit (unlawful)Fair (even-handed) and Fare (payment)Gorilla (large ape) and Guerrilla (military soldier)Knead (working bread dough) and Need (must have)Mail (postal delivery) and Male (masculine person)Principle (a basic truth) and Principal (head of a school/sum of money)Than (a comparison) and then (shows time).4.Polysemy~ single word, multiple meanings..e.g.Man ~ The human species / The Males / Adult malesBank ~ a financial institution / the building / rely upon..Some practical tips to learn new words..1. Whenever you see a word always see the image in Google images..2. Read as much as possible and as variedly as possible.30 minutes everyday is more than sufficient.Solve SSC or IBPS question papers. It provides and excellent variety and a good level of difficulty..3. Whatever subjects you study, always check it on Wikipedia.org.4. Whatever you study / watch / listen write a brief summary of it.Actively using your brain everyday will enhance your vocabulary dramatically..5. Learn Etymology. It is a magical way of filling your brain with hundreds of words EVERYDAY..6. Checkthefreedictionary.comeveryday. Whenever you come across a word you do not know, look it up onthefreedictionary.com only..7. When you learn a word, start finding situations to use it. Start using it immediately and frequently. It will commit the word to your memory..8. Remember to REPEAT, and REPEAT to remember....What should I do then?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~..4 absolute steps to be good at learning English..1. Read at least 2 topics daily, related to yourdomain, from Wikipedia.org.2. Download podcasts (or videos from youtube) and LISTEN to it for 20 to 30 minutes while on your way to office/college/school..3. Write what you have understood in those 20 to 30 minutes..4. Speak what you have written....Some QUOTES~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~You must grasp a few essential principles if you want to write POORLY.In order to do a poor job atwriting, Merrill said you would need to do three things: ignore the reader, be verbose, vague, and pompous, and do not revise. Ignore your audience whenever you can. Avoid being too direct with your choice of words, and try not to overfill your paper with a lot of unnecessary words and phrases. Also, do not check over your paper.~Paul W. Merrill, in the essay, The Principles of Poor Writing~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~In being a good writer, you are able to be concise and simple and keep your readers engaged. His colleagues are educated people and should use their knowledge when writing papers. He feels that they should be stronger on information and have fewer razzle-dazzle.~Paul W. Merrill, in the essay, The Principles of Poor Writing~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Most of the English teachers in India BELIEVE that Wren and Martin is the best book on grammar, and The Hindu is the best newspaper in English, and Barrons word list is the best for vocabulary if you are preparing for GRE, SAT, MAT. However, it is meant for the students of L1 and not L2.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~But the academia has an itch to be looked more SERIOUS and DIGNIFIED even they have to sacrifice the lucidity as well as the meaning. All the course books are written in an indirect manner. It is filled with circumlocutions, pleonasms, redundant expressions, volubility, and repetitiousness. They make every effort to not sound like a human being.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Leave it only for the English teachers like me who believe that our usage has to be a bit INCOMPREHENSIBLE to be good.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Therefore have something to say and say it in SIMPLE, CLEAR, and PLAIN English.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~In Wren & Martin there are 50 sentences on each intricacy of the language, are you willing to spend that much time. The sentences in it are of no practicle use.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~If you have to choose between English English and American English always go for American because, FIRST, it is simple. SECOND, its spellings are logical and less confusing. And THIRD, they are the job providers.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~You have to understand that you cannot use a language efficiently unless you understand how it behaves in daily life. You need to learn the idioms and phrases of that language to have a command over it.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~English sounds best in the ACTIVE VOICE. It is altogether unenglish to say things in passive voice. English is the language to command, and if you are unable to use English in active voice, you cannot command contemporary English.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~English grammar is not only very confusing but is more complicated. And on top of that, it CHANGES again and again.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Grammar is a science but it is the most inexact. Why? Because it is based on the speaking habits of the majority of educated people. And this fact has ultimately drawn a margin between educated and GANWAAR rustic speaker.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Therefore, as lord Krishna has said keep on doing your duties and do not be worried about results. I, your teacher, command thee to keep on SPEAKING in English and do not be worried about GRAMMAR.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~It is necessary to understand that even the English medium students are not able to converse in English because most of them have not got sufficient interactive practice. And without sufficiently practicing it for some 10,000 times you cannot acquire the desired FLUENCY and SPONTANEITY with the language.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Therefore, instead of wasting your time and money in useless classes, get actual knowledge and experience by reading 30-40 good books on personality development.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~First, invite a friend on WhatsApp, use voice message to chat in English about the topic you have studied today. When you are using WhatsApp you do not need to schedule the conversation. Whenever you find time, just send a voice message. Use your mobile phone to initiate several discussions to learn the language.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Online friends can be milked to let you learn English almost freely. A casual Chatting is easier than speaking English on something. It also gives you a chance to practice your language. Second, when you use WhatsApp you are also creating a record of what you said and what your partner saidand it makes it easier for you to correct your partner and vice versa.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~All English classes teach GD (group discussions) , PI (personal interview), PD (personality development), body language essentially. If you say that you want to learn grammar for competitive exams, or bank English as it is called in Bhopal they will agree to teach you even that. But teaching just one thing judiciously consumes so much time and efforts that the English Class Wallah cannot justify it. And those who claim that they can; they are simply LIARS.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~However, the academia will declare my work superficial because I do not write academese. My paragraphs are three sentence long, and the words I use are simple.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~All of us have a very rich PASSIVE VOCABULARY, that is a person can identify a wide variety of words, without even knowing. Etymology enhances passive vocabulary almost magically.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~For them a good knowledge of English is equal to good Communication Skills.~ Puneet Biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The English language is not taught in the ideal way. First of all teachers teach English in big classes and teach the rules of grammar, thinking that doing this will be sufficient to teach that language. They are least concerned about the fact that the basic aim of teaching English (or any language) is to enable the learner to speak it. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~If you want to speak English, you have to practice speaking it. And if you want to speak a English very quickly, you have to start speaking ASAP. ~ puneet biseria.It is extremely important that you practice every day, 15 minutes a day is far better than 4 hours once a week. ~ puneet biseria.Always seek a one-on-one home tutor. Never go for English classes. Big classes give you the liberty to sit back and be lazy. And in a one-on-one home tutor setup you cannot hide anywhere. ~ puneet biseria.School is not to learn, it is for acquiring the learning skills. That is theultimate aim of educationis to make the learners capable of doing things on their own. To inculcate the ability to deal with the unpredictable daily challenges which they might face. And therefore students should be trained to learn on their own. That is what education is all about. We should prepare them to become an autonomous learner. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Intelligence is learned (or acquired) and is not inherited. You should be thankful to God. Because if intelligence were inherited, so would stupidity. ~puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ones attitude to oneself is primarily influenced by what others think of us. Stay away from all the well-intentioned people and all the teachers who overcorrect. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~If only the teaching material was carefully designed by the practicing teacher, with sufficient liberty, he could have used it to advantage for the privileged (or well-read) learners. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The teachers who teach school students are not allowed to teach without the B.Ed. degree. But nearly every school teacher has studied merely from cheap guides and has neither imbibed nor reflected over the teaching concepts which he is supposed to know. And thus they enter the most important profession of the world with useless degrees without knowing the basics. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Some teachers consider the not-very-bright students as intellectually inferior, but even with the most essential B.Ed. degree they are not aware of their negative attitudes, and they treat the students with same disinterest with which they were treated. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Nobel Laureate Roger Sperry stated that our educational system tends to neglect the non-verbal form of intellect. What it amounts to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~We, in india, do not pay any heed to the Right Hemispherical literacy. The dyslexic children are considered as learning disabled. If you have seen Taarey Zameen Par you can have a clear understand that the kids who can draw much better than the so called normal children, are not considered competent. You have to go to a very expensive school, if you want your child to be well versed with academics, art, and music. Most of the schools do not have art or music departments. In fact, art and music is not even considered a department in most of the schools. Just by including these things also in our education system, we can make the curriculum as vivid as as possible. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The teacher should try to develop the ability of the students to use the language for a variety of communicative purposes. It should not be limitized only to answer the questions in examinations. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~And now, when I am an English teacher, I avoid being an a**hole. I give my students frequent opportunities to speak. I let them speak freely, allowing them to make as many mistakes as possible. First of all, I let them be comfortable with speaking English words. I never use the word grammar, I tell them every rule by saying we usually use this sentence like this. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~What helped me most in learning English was attempting the English section of competitive exams like IBPS, SSC, Railway, et cetra and study the explanation of the correct answers. It improved my English tremendously. I was exercising my brain everyday to get the correct answer. Solving the reading comprehension exercises exposed me to the widest variety of the texts. It was only because of my reading the standardized and correct English everyday for 30 minutes I acquired a good command over the language. It fixed the correct grammatical forms in my mind. I developed an aptitude for the language. These question papers have a lot of exercises related to synonyms antonyms It helped me a lot to remember the meanings of the difficult words and also the various shades of their meanings. Attempt at least one English section of any competitive exam and check the answer everyday and within an year, your English will be improved incredibly. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~All the English teachers feel that it is their duty to 'correct' the learners' English, to minimize their errors. But it is not like that, in fact errors are something to be be happy about. It tells us that the learner is in the process of learning, and is slowly and steadily climbing the ladder towards L2. Errors are seen as problems that had to be eradicated immediately. But just correct the student 3 or 4 times and the student either start considering you as an a**hole, or he will abandon all the hopes of learning English. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~It is necessary that an English teacher should exercise a good command over the English language. But is that enough? No not at all!!!! If it were the case, than the people of USA and UK were employed as English teachers everywhere saving themselves to face the biggest EMPLOYMENT CRISIS. It clarifies that just the working knowledge of the language is not sufficient, what is required is that the teacher must have explicit knowledge about the language. He must have the capability to understand how the language is acquired by the human brain. He must be well-versed with all the teaching principles and, more importantly, how to implement them. Most of the English teachers are employed merely to complete the syllabus. The college wallahs and school wallahs just see the degree of MA in English Literature and (or) B.Ed. degree, and employ them for 5K. They are not given sufficient time to prepare the lesson plans, and in their free time they are required to do the clerical tasks. Nowhere it is checked if the teacher has teaching aptitude or not. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~According to Rubin (1975), every good language learner is1. prepared to take risks.2. seeks maximum use of opportunities to communicate in the L2.3. interacts with speakers of L2 without inhibition.4. uses study techniques to supplement learning.5. actively monitors learning by analysing, categorising and6. storing linguistic features and attending to errors.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~However, the very educated AAJ KI NAARI bombard their kids with her inaccurate English. She butchers English as many times as she opens her mouth. She thinks that it will make her child fluent in English. But the kids who are brought up in such an environment commit silly grammatical mistakes, speak in fake accents as their mothers, and become a laughing stock in front of those whose mothers have made it a point to speak L1 correctly. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~If you want to learn L2, first of all master your mother tongue. And not only this knowing two or more languages always helps. It enriches a persons linguistic repertoire. It makes him more versatile in communication. The mastery of mother tongue supplements the mastery of the second language. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Before going into the class, consider the actual purpose of learning English. Are you concerned with real life purposes or the made-up classroom purposes? ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Almost every grammar book has thousands of sentences which are highly regular and well-structured according to the rules of grammar. It has to be. Because, after all it is a book of grammar. However, if you get in touch with those sentences you will get acquainted with it. WOW!!! It is so simple!!! But what is wrong with it? Speaking any language does not mean that you have to be a master of all the grammatical rules. How did you learn your mother tongue? By reading books?Anyone who uses grammar book CANNOT use the type of language which occurs in day-to-day speech. If you keep on practicing the sentence-based grammar, you will never learn rhetoric (the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques). Pumping brain with Wren & Martin is therefore a waste of time. Accept it. Even you do not want to attempt 50 sentences per grammatical rule/structure. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~What is the difference between errors, mistakes and lapses?An error is a grammatically incorrect form. It is committed because the learner has not mastered the rules of grammar.A lapse can be described as slips of the tongue or pen. Everyone commits errors inadvertently. A person is completely aware of the correct form.A mistake is committed when the person is grammatically aware but is not aware of the error which he has committed. He cannot correct his mistakes.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Best Way to Correct Your Students.If you want to be a good teacher, and want your student to learn from you, do not correct your students. Engage yourself in providing the students with the appropriate input.For example:-Teacher : Are you able to understand?Student : I think.Teacher : You think so?Student : Yes, I think so.Teacher : Hmmm.... good..!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Ideal Teaching PlanPoint out the error. (without saying)See if the learner is not able to correct himself. (If not then)Supply the correct sentence (by uttering the correct sentence)Express approval.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The learner as an individual who brings with him his own preferred learning styles, his very own intelligence, his own aptitude for language, his own attitude and most importantly his own MOTIVATION.As a teacher it is our responsibility to understand these 5 things about our students. Any teacher who is not able to analyse these things, should not teach. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Traditionally students are considered as PASSIVE RECEIVERS of the knowledge. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Learners should learn almost everything what they are supposed to learn, OR whatever is there in their syllabus, which is set by the most experienced (and good for nothing) senior teachers. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Indeed, it is really shocking to know that a lot of learning takes place without any conscious efforts. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~If you want to teach a language effectively, you should learn to exploit the tremendous capacity of a human being to learn a language. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~If a child lives in a house of multilingual people, the child would be able to reply each of them in the language it was asked. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Everyone (if he is not suffering from some physiological handicaps) in every society is a competent and effective language user. Everyone learns his mother tongue.Though learning a mother tongue is a long drawn out process, and we can NEVER say when a person has fully mastered his mother tongue or has FINISHED learning it. Since learning a language is an INFINITE process, PRACTICALLY, everyone is a language learner. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Q. What is the difference a LEARNER and a PUPIL?Ans. Pupils have special chances and RESPONSIBILITY to learn a specific syllabus. They have to pay attention in a set environment (which provides opportunities to learn) and try hard to learn what is taught.Learners are not thus handicapped.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The learners do not learn everything in the same way or to the same extent. There is always a yawning gap between what is taught and what is learned. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~At times, I have seen where a students interest in something has been quashed by an uninspiring / thoughtless teacher. And there a lot of teachers like this in India. Most of them are working on a meager salary of 4000/- to 8000/-. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Human behavior is the result of learning. Secondly, learning is a highly individualized process. Each person has his own unique learning history which affects on everything which a person will learn in future from any learning stimulus or situation. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~It is surprising to note that most of the learning takes place outside the formal context of school and college. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Some people get very interested in certain areas and after a considerable time of studying on their own they become experts in the areas of their interests. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Any person who has decided to learn something is easier to teach. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Adults start more quickly and then slow down. Though children start more slowly, they finish up at a higher level. ~ Cook.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The job of a teacher is not merely to complete the syllabus but to make the learner learn what the learner is supposed to learn by the end of the session, and this is possible iff the teacher adopts a Learner Centered Approach. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~When I was undergoing training for my work as a Customer Care Executive in Dell Financial Services and British Gas, I realized that it is pretty natural to be unable to understand. And that if I was unable to understand something it was NOT my fault. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~The class has to be participative and should not go like the traditional class in which the teacher is lecturing non-stop for 45-50-60 minutes mercilessly, butchering every iota of interest / desire of the learner to learn what the learner should learn. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~Observe a teacher when he is teaching in the class and when he is giving private tuition. In private tuitions he tries to match his tutoring according to the needs of the students. He fine-tunes the complexity of the subject, he modifies the explaination and illustrations, he attunes his speed / pace of the discussion, he repeats the topic several times, he offers individual as well as personalized attention to each student; he tries to teach as effectively as possible to as many different types of students as possible.But when the very teacher teaches in school / college, he is least concerned about the efficiency of the lesson he is giving. The teachers who are poorly paid (getting around 4,000/- to 12,000/- INR in private schools / colleges) do not think it is worth their effort to teach effectively, and the teachers who are lucratively reciprocated (getting around 18,000/- to 1,36,000/- INR in government schools / colleges) think of why they should sweat blood when everything will come to them even if they do not work at all. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~There are too many types of students, interested, uninterested, disinterested; competent, incompetent; students who will try extremely hard, students who give up too easily; students who are from a very informative background, and the students whose parents are illiterate. All of these factors make the job of teaching very-very challenging.Just like they conduct the Indian Revenue Service, Indian Revenue Service, Indian Postal Service, Indian Civil Services, Indian Administrative Service, India Foreign Service, Indian Police Services, et cetra, they should also conduct Indian Teaching Services also. And every effort should be made to monitor the PRODUCTIVITY of the appointed teachers. . ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~Most of the teachers are still unable to understand that the students form a social group and they will talk to each other, and they punish the students for talking in the class. Alas! If only they would have used this talking habit of students. It would have made the class PARTICIPATIVE and INTERACTIVE, allowing the students to enjoy the learning process and grasp the concepts by actually discussing the intricacies of the topic. Not only this, in order to prove themselves more intelligent, the students would have studied diligently. In fact, they would have EXPERIENCED the topic.The students will feel good because they know that they have contributed in the class, and that they have taken something with them which they can use in the real life.It is, therefore, the duty of the teacher to establish the relationship between what is taught in the class to the real life, it makes the teaching PURPOSEFUL. . ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~Every teacher should create his own website where he should give the summary of what is taught in the class. Or he should use facebook or other social medium.This will also save the time in the class. Just think if 20 minutes are spent in writing one or the other thing in the class. Moreover using the net will also enable the teacher to suggest all the content present on the cyberspace, which will enhance the learning, as well as, the learning experience.Just imagine, every kid now-a-days spend at least 1 hour on the internet, especially facebook. This very fact can be used to the advantage of the students. The worst thing that could happen is that the students will not visit the internet resource, but then also, you have nothing to lose.It will also allow you to select the material which is most suitable for your students. Youtube.com and podcasts are overabundant with rich teaching / learning resources created by The Bests in Industries.If all else fails, you have something to show to the interviewers, when you go for an interview.If you are lucky to have good students, you can ask them to contribute something. You will be surprised to see how meaningfully these young kids can contribute to the lesson proper. Kids of present generation are bursting with good ideas, just encourage them to contribute so that they start believing that they are something. . ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~You will learn a lot by trial-and-error method. At times you will find that you have deviated from what you have planned. But then, do not be discouraged, within 3 sessions, you will learn to manage the class in an effective manner.If you can upload videos on YouTube.com, you can ask the students to view it. And those videos can be made by playing the PowerPoint Presentations with your voice in the background. You can use a lot of images in that PowerPoint presentation and thus you are using the opportunity which internet has provided you to be accessible anytime from anywhere in the world. ~ puneet biseria~~~~~~~~~~~~~School knowledge is the knowledge which someone else presents to us. We partly grasp it, enough to answer the teacher's questions, to do exercises, or to answer examination questions, but it remains someone else's knowledge, not ours. If we never use this knowledge we probably forget it. In so far as we use knowledge for our own purposes however we begin to incorporate it into our view of the world, and to use parts of it to cope with the exigencies of living. Once the knowledge becomes incorporated into that view of the world on which our actions are based I would say that it has become 'action knowledge'. (p. 82)~ Douglas BarnesComments in FROM COMMUNICATION TO CURRICULMabout 'school knowledge' and 'action knowledge':~~~~~~~~~~~~~The power of language lies more in concealing thoughts rather than expressing them.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Since all of us know at least one language and we are able to use it without making a lot of conscious effort, all the language teachers should understand that everyone has the innate ability to understand and use the language.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The ability to carry on the simplest conversation requires a deep knowledge of the language of which even the speaker is unaware of.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Everyone can produce the most complicated sentences without being aware of the principles and rules which the language teachers try to teach in the most absurd manner.That is, by teaching the grammar rules as the very first step of language learning.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Philosophers and scientists are still confused and cannot say with authority about when exactly human being started to use language.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Creativity in language means the ability to produce and understand even those sentences which are never spoken or heard.People in entertainment basically use this feature. In fact, they have to rely on creativity to keep themselves in the profession.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Cultural Transmission means the process by which a child learn the language of its parents.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Displacement is the most important aspect of human beings by which they can speak something which happened in the past, and something that will happen in the future.Animal communicate, but they can communicate only about Present Continuous Tense.And human being can communicate about all the 12 tenses.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Hypercorrection means to be extremely careful while using a language so as to avoid all the errors.It is basically the tendency of all the English teachers who concentratetooooooo muchon speaking the most correct form of the English language, and they keep on correcting the students, which ultimately convinces the students thatEnglish is a very difficult language and even if God teaches us, we cannot learn English.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Language variation refers to the peculiar style in which a person speaks which is the result of ones reejan, sosal kilaas, aakoopason, and paidaaish (region, social class, occupation, and nativity).~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~English is a descendent of the Indo-European family of the language.Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin all have a common origin.The similarity of the words and the grammar of these three languages confirms the fact.This fact was well documented by Sir William Jones in 1776.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~What is the role of grammar in language learning?The ultimate aim of learning a language is to speak and write that particular language correctly, and in order to do so, one requires a sound knowledge of grammar.But most of the teachers do not know what is grammar? And how should they teach grammar?Now if you want to know exactly, if your exceptionally experienced and respected teachers are really worth their salt, ask yourselfAm I able to use English flawlessly?If not, you can call them names in their face without batting an eyelid.Remind yourself of how bored you felt when they taught you. What effort they put to make the learning easier for you?Why should they have?They werepaid for it.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The ultimate aim of teaching a language is to develop the ability to communicate in English.And since you cannot learn how to swim by reading a book on it, you need to practice it in water.Communication cannot be taught without interaction. You need to interact, in order to learn communication.Interaction gives you the necessary practice oflisteningandspeaking.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~As a teacher it is our duty to know the structure of the language, and if we understand it properly, we can improve the lessons we are imparting.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~It is necessary to revise what we have already read about teaching. It is possible only with revision and revision only that we can get better penetration and new insights from the old information.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Instead of teaching grammar first, we should first teach sentences first, then about how the words are used, then the grammar, and finally the sounds.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Language is dynamic and undergoes changes all the time. And therefore, when we mark something as mistake, we must first find out if the MISTAKE is accepted as standard.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~English is constantly interacting with all the languages of the world and is also influencing all the languages of the world. The purity of the language was never Englishs concern.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~What is grammar?Grammar means a set of rules which regulates the morphology and the syntax of a particular language.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Why we are able to speak our mother tongue correctly?We do not commit any grammatical mistakes. If someone commits a mistake we can identify the mistake and correct it.What to talk of an educated person even an illiterate person can tell what is incorrect. The funny thing is that an illiterate person does not know anything about grammar.What is grammar then?Grammar is the sense of the language. And this my dear. Is theexactdefinition of the language.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~An illiterate person can tell what is wrong.But CAN an illiterate person tell why a particular sentence is grammatically incorrect?The ability to define why some sentence is wrong and correct it accordingly, requires the study of the rules of the grammar.This ability of explaining the reason is required only and only by an English teacher. If you are not planning to be an English teacher, be comfortable and just try to speak what you mostly hear, and do not be worried too much about the grammar.There is no need at all to pursue Mechanical Engineering, if all you want is to ride a motorcycle.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Grammar is the innate ability which is possessed by all human beings, it is by this ability only that all human being learn their mother tongue.So.. can it be said that the grammar is the property of human brain?Absolutely.!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Again let me ask what is grammar?Can grammar be described as the set of usual sentences used by educated speakers?Yes. Or . No.???English is a type of language in which there are a lot of exceptions.According to a particular rule, a particular sentence is correct, but it could be incorrect even if it is grammatically correct.So what should you do?Do not follow the grammatical rules like religious texts. Language is dynamic and so are its rules.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~There are several types of grammar.One is Intuitive Grammar (you know because it is your mother tongue).Second is Prescriptive Grammar (you are told about the dos and the donts of the language).Third is Discriptive Grammar (you can describe why some thing is wrong).Fourth is Instinctive Grammar (youhavesince birth by which you learn any language)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~According to Henry Widdowson, an authority figure in theApplied LinguisticsandLanguage Teaching, a second language learner is least benefitted by learning grammar.Why?Because a second language learner is not able to transfer the knowledge of grammar to the real life situations.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~According to Peter Newmark, an authority figure in theTranslation Studies, knowledge of grammar is neither necessary nor sufficient for language learners.Even after spending several years in learning grammar, most of the second language learners are not able to speak or write grammatically.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~If you are still wasting your time with books like Wren & Martin, Nesfield, McGraw series, rest assured, you will only master the rules of grammar, you will secure cent percent marks in grammar tests. But when it comes to speaking or writing you will forget all the rules you have learnt by wasting several years of your life.Secondly it contains a lot of isolated sentences and no where in life you will find yourself in such situation where there is no continuity of thought.Another very important thing . Do you want to spend the rest of your life solving the exercise sentences given in wren and martin?No one would!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~What should you do if you want to have a good command over the grammar?Practicethestructuresof the language.Practicing the patterns will make you familiar with the basic patterns of the language.But do not rely on classes which promise you to teach fluent English in 70/80/90 hours. They will merely teach you 70/80/90 sentence structures and make you practice endlessly.If someone talks using a different sentence structure, your command over the language will collapse. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Put yourself in as many situations in which you can speak or write.Put yourself near a person who knows better English than you do.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Learn grammar for communication.Do not learn grammar just for its own sake.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Our job as a teacher is to help a learner to speak English effectively.Or is it to produce grammarians?I do not want to produce students who are very good at grammar but when it comes to speaking, they start shivering.If you are an English teacher, do not frighten your students with absolute grammatical rules.Let them commit mistakes, do not start teaching grammar at the very instance. 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