Language Teaching Principles

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• …an activity or action which is carried out as the result of processing or understanding language (i.e. as a response)…A task usually requires the teacher to specify what will be regarded as successful completion of the task (Richards, Platt and Weber, 1985 cited in Nunan 1988a,p.45).

Task-based language teaching draws on several principles of the CLT:
• Activities that involve real communication are essential for language learning.
• Activities in which language is used for carrying out meaningful tasks promote learning.
• Language that is meaningful to the learner supports the learning process. (Richards and Rogers,2001,p.223)

Long and Crookers (1993) have identified three different types of task-based syllabi-procedural; Breen and Candlin’s …show more content…

It draws on the principles of CLT and “ is the teaching of content or information in the language being learned with little or no direct or explicit effort to teach the language separately from the content being taught”( Krahnke,1987 cited in Richards and Rogers, 2001,p.204). Practical content is derived from a subject area which becomes a vehicle as well as a means for providing content for learning language. Selection of ordinary content is determined by educational …show more content…

For each term, Tamil and English books are bound together as these two come under language. Lessons under Tamil are given first and then lessons related to English.
As per the guiding principle of the National Curriculum Framework 2005, the English textbook for all standards have been prepared. Different genres of literature such as story, science fiction, humour, autobiography can be seen in the English text book of IX standard which aims at explain the learners. The selection of different types of poems is to kindle the learners to probe the language and relish the joy of learning.
Communication with confidence and accuracy is ensured by the choice of the grammar and language activities. Various exercises on synonyms, antonyms, matching words to meanings, word building ( prefixes, suffixes, phrasal verbs), British/American English, idioms phrases and abbreviations are given at the end of the lesson is to enrich vocabulary. Grammar exercises have been given in order to facilitate the understanding of grammar items by a close reading to the prose

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