TEACHING IN ENGLISH

LEARN THE LANGUAGE; LARN THE SUBJECT

Guest Lecture by Dr. S. Malaikkani
To the St. Anthony School Teachers
On 20.12 2008
1.Imporance of English – need – economic importance – World’s first Language – Modern Language – A practical life tool - Almost an Indian Language – Future of it – Soft skills vs Hard skills – Spoken English vs Technical English.

2. Teaching English and Teaching in English – the first – method of teaching the language - the second - a method of teaching the subject – the first one needs common
vocabulary – the second needs subject vocabulary

3. Mastery of the language – both common and technical – follow study skills
LSRW - Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics - a good collection of quality books – Reference skills – Using the Library – Using the Net – learn the nature of English - A tough Language – Learn to simplify it

4. Methods of teaching – teaching for scientific thinking – Dvelop your own style of teaching – Formula for teaching MARKS – Learn the use of Technical and Scientific English

5. Old Methods of teaching – Lecture Method – Translation Method – Socretic Method – Q&A – Story method ect.

6. Modern Methods - Key Word Method – Embedding Learning Techniques in teaching – Memory- techniques based teaching – Indivisualized – Instruction – An approach to make all the students learn in the class room itself – No poor Students or slow learners

Prepare your own materials – e-contents – use the already prepared standard materials – Group work

Motivate the students towards self-learning – manage your time in the class room
Make the students to think like great scientists – ask to put their thoughts in writing – Try to create innovative bent of mind and do experiments and invent new working models.

Use electronic Gadgets in the class room – Encourage Students to use them in their learning

10. Self- in-service methods – News Readers Model – Modern Advertisements