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English Language Teaching Case Study

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1. Introduction

The role of English as a unifying language in the dynamic trade environment powered by globalization, beyond any perceptible doubt is very crucial for the successful transaction of any business. English has so far played the role of a Lingua Franca, a bridge language, an auxiliary language etc and it has graduated to an international language. Now it has attained the status of a Universal language. Acquiring English language has now become synonymous to success. A good deal of research has been taking place in the field of English Language Teaching in India too. As a result of the research inside and outside India a number of changes in the past decades took place in the methods of teaching, materials to be used for teaching …show more content…

A strong belief in this adage made the researchers to focus on syntax, learning styles, effective teaching materials, curriculum design, methodologies etc. It can be understood from the works of the researchers in ELT that vocabulary shall be acquired through the method of “Guessing from the context”. Wilkins in his 1974 work, “Second Language Learning and Teaching” suggested that the only way to master the lexical system is the same as that recommended to master the syntactic system. But Krashen stated that acquisition of language will not take place without comprehension of vocabulary. Rivers asked language teachers to pay more attention to words, considering carefully how to help learners communicate meaning even before they can use grammatically correct sentences. Batia Laufer in the 1991 work started that “no text comprehension is possible without understanding the …show more content…

Nation in his review of literature (1982) focused on the need to teach vocabulary, guidelines for instruction and the relative efficacy of techniques depending on whether the goal was receptive or productive learning. But there were still theorists who stuck to conviction that vocabulary to be taught through the guessing from the text method. The method of explicit teaching of vocabulary slowly is gaining ascendancy. Nation and Waring show that some words make more sensible items for explicit teaching. This worked attempts to focus on those items which can be imparted through explicit teaching

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