THE CRITICAL STUDY ON TEACHING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILL TO THE SPEAKERS OF TAMIL LANGUAGE AT SCHOOL LEVEL

MPHIL ENGLISH

The main purpose of this thesis is to improve the teaching of English speaking skill. In this modern world everyone likes to speak in English. This speaking skill must be developed in the school level itself. Although many educationists introduced so many excellent activities, the speaking skill cannot be developed in the school level. What is the reason behind it? Why couldn’t the teachers of English achieve this? There are many barriers in teaching English speaking skill. The first and the foremost barrier is that English is not the mother tongue of Tamil speaking students. There is no need to teach the speaking skill of one’s own mother tongue. He learns it by naturally. But it is very difficult to speak a language like English, which is used in the school alone as one among the subjects. Tamil speaking students feel difficult to pronounce English words. There are many other barriers also like lack of vocabulary, lack of grammar skill, lack of qualified English teachers etc. Here I suggest some ways which can develop the English speaking skill. Introducing English sounds and simple listening activities in the primary level, choosing and make easy the existing activities, developing the skill of vocabulary, Grammar, Framing questions, teaching English as a skill subject, adjusting time and syllabus are the important suggested ways.

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