Journal of English Language Teaching

ESL Teaching - Avenues and Challenges

Aparna Banik

Head, Department of English, Shri Cloth Market Girls’ Commerce Collge, Madhya Pradesh

Keywords: Mother tongue impact on english language learning, Ways to teach students from regional medium of instruction

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Abstract

Teaching the English language to a group of students who come from a regional medium of instruction has always been challenging. The affinity to their mother tongue creates obstacles in learning English. The main reason behind this problem is students’ inclination to learn through translation. This is not an appropriate method for learning. Very often this leads to misinterpretation of  words and their meaning, inheriting faulty pronunciations and accents. The present study explores the ways in which one can make the teaching of the English Language more effective and result oriented especially for students coming from a regional medium of instruction.

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