GENERAL ESSAY TOPICS FOR ELT

GENERAL ESSAY: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

Objectives:

-          To expose the learner to the nuances of teaching English in the Indian scenario.

-         To expose the learner to the latest developments in Indian ELT scenario.

-         To expose the learner to the major precepts of Educational Linguistics, keeping in mind the ELT context of India(curriculum designing/syllabus framing).

-         To expose the learner to the major precepts of Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics.

-         To encourage the postgraduate students of English to have independent opinion and views about Indian ELT scenario and to enable them to effectively use the available resources like the web resources, case studies and the books to support their arguments.

Methodology:

Lectures, Class Group Discussions, Case Studies and Supplementary Study Materials

Aspiring teacher candidates to interview part-ii English teachers and students, and to make regular classroom visits for observation.

Evaluation:

Oral Presentations, Outline of the essay on each of the ten units, and Written Assignments

Topics to be discussed:

1.      Communicative Approaches to Language Teaching

2.      The Use of Educational Technologies in ELT

3.      Innovations in Indian  ELT scenario

4.      Contemporary Status of English – both in India as well as a Global language: the shaping influence for learning of English

5.      Indian English – features of Indian English, difficulties faced by Indians in learning English

6.      Curriculum Development and Syllabus Design in Indian scenario

7.      Approaches and Methods of Teaching English

8.      Teaching Language Skills in Classroom

9.      Testing – types, features and the need, Error Analysis and Contrastive Error Analysis

10. Language Acquisition Models – both as the first and the second language

Assignment:

1.      Trace the different influence upon the Indian ELT scenario.

2.      Status of English in Contemporary India