LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 6 June 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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Effective Utilization of Interpersonal Intelligence in Language Teaching –
Based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences

S. Jayalakshmi, Ph.D.

Problems in Procuring Proficiency

All practicing teachers of English will agree to the fact that the average Indian students lack confidence to speak in English effortlessly. Notwithstanding India’s close acquaintance with the English language for several centuries now, it is still a distant dream for most of the rural and some of the urban Indians to speak fluently in English. Thus this is a major problem that should be addressed as quickly as possible. The classes have long been highly ‘teacher-oriented’, in the sense that the learners did not get much opportunity to use the language inside the classroom to check their proficiency.

This paper argues that the practicing teachers should identify the means to provide these opportunities to the students. This should be done with a view to making them confident speakers of English, thereby enabling them move faster on the roads to higher education and gain an upward social and professional mobility.

Nevertheless, based on the premises that have hitherto been laid by the language experts, we can argue that the hiccup in speaking fluently in English is mainly because we never conceive anything in that language before we speak it. In other words, we do not think in English before and/or while we speak in that language and this hampers our ease in communication, in terms of putting our content in the appropriate form. It is high time that the Indian teachers of English find a convenient way out to help our students to get rid of the fear to communicate in English and become confident communicators ever. Towards this aim, this paper tends to propose the theory of Multiple Intelligences as an ideal tool to suit the methodologies used to fulfill the communicative needs of an average Indian learner of English.

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