The New National Education Policy and Teaching of English as a Second Language: Revisiting Grammar Translation Method
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https://doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2022.v07.i09.004Keywords:
New Education Policy, Multilingualism, Communicative method, Grammar Translation MethodAbstract
Even as the implementation of the New Education Policy gets underway in India, with its radical paradigm changes such as imparting instruction in mother tongue/ home language/ local language/regional language until at least Grade 5, and its emphasis on multilingualism, the subject of Teaching English as a second language calls for a fresh perspective and approach. This paper argues that, given the unsuccessful course of the communicative model of TEOSL in India, The Grammar Translation Method (GMT), in a modified form which incorporates spoken English and a few other features of the communicative method, can prove highly efficacious in making our students proficient in the use of English language.
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