English Language Teaching
Topic outline
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A. History of Teaching English in India – 1883 Act, General Committee of Public Instruction
1823, Lord Macaulay’s Education Policy 1835, Woods Dispatch (1854), Hunter Commission
(1882-83), Sadler Commission (1917-1919)
B. Education policy after Independence, The status of English in India Aims/Objectives of
Teaching English
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A. Behaviorist: Classical Conditioning; Operant Conditioning; Theories of Insight
B. Other Theories: Cognitive; Innatist; Constructivist, Sociolinguistic aspects of ELT
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A. Approaches: The Structural Approach; The Lexical Approach, The Communicative
Approach; The Humanistic Approach, The Natural Approach, Humanistic Approaches, Task
Based Language Teaching.
B. Methods: The Grammar-Translation Method, The Direct Method, Dr. West’s New Method,
The Audiolingual Method
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A. Teaching Language and Literature: Curriculum, Syllabus and Course, Lesson Planning,
Teaching Prose, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Grammar and Teaching Vocabulary
B. Teaching Aids and Techniques: Audio Aids, Visual Aids, Audio-Visual Aids, Pair work,
group work, group discussion, Peer Teaching.
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A. Teaching Skills: Teaching Listening, Techniques of Teaching Listening, Teaching Speaking,
Techniques of Teaching Speaking, Teaching Reading, Techniques of Teaching Reading,
Teaching Writing, Techniques of Teaching Writing
B. Evaluation: Theory of Evaluation, Types of Evaluation -Formative Evaluation, Summative
Evaluation, Types of Tests, Criteria of Good Test, Remedial Teaching.