ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue 15
ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#15 | April 9, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 Webinar: The learner-centred classroom BBC TeachingEnglish Article: Global English and the teaching of pronunciation Video: Universality in Linguistics and Human…
ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#15 | April 9, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036 Webinar: The learner-centred classroom BBC TeachingEnglish Article: Global English and the teaching of pronunciation Video: Universality in Linguistics and Human…
In the present educational system of India the disparity between the needs-based and means-based language courses will be an obvious factor in practical field. Whether the curriculums prepared by states councils or central board in India which need to address and operate with a wide variety of cultures, ethnicities and languages of states and of the country as well can be reduced to any unified notion of compiling based on uniform standard and material or not is certainly a debatable issue. Specifically in North-East India, the institutes and colleges adopting the CBSE/NCERT course contents always have faced serious problems to meet up the needs of students coming from heterogeneous language background and remote areas. Even within a single territory or in colleges/institutions under an affiliated university, the curriculum that does well in some situations may not give expected results in another (Dudley-Evans and St. John 124). There should be provisions for compiling curriculums of language courses by mixing up both the needs and means analysis methods and every educational institute should be asked to compile the means-based part of own depending on the requirements of the students and the environment.
The higher education institutions of non-linguistic specialties are now facing a problem of students to be professionally trained and graduated from not only in their respective qualifications and specialties but also in the faculty of comprehensive thinking and acquiring knowledge along with multicultural issues. This requires providing such important arrangements to be made for the foreign languages teaching process as various kinds of intercourse related to a given social and cultural ambience, sociopolitical activity along with the main professionally (specialization) adjusted intercourse as the dominating one. It will comprehensively define and shape the professional terms of reference and lights of a given specialist in the course of the higher education process thus incorporating all personal lights what allows the specialist to properly employ and accomplish his/her professional activity by more efficient way, what in turn also provides for further mental development of individuals. In this aspect, the communication component shall be the key one.