Journal of English Language Teaching

Learning English is FUNtastic

Padmasini Kannan

Project Officer, Dr MGR Educational Research Institute University

Keywords: language skills, L2, fun-filled activities

Abstract

Globalisation of English has given a good impetus to the Indians to learn this language. However, the teaching/learning situation is far from satisfactory. The disadvantaged children face their own hardships as it taught in a rarefied atmosphere. The present paper provides details about a project undertaken to strengthen their spoken English in a crash 20 hours programme to equip the children with necessary speaking skills.  As a pilot attempt, this project conducted in ‘Home for Hope’ through an interactive method and was found to be successful. The whole programme was divided into two parts and the present paper focuses on the first part and briefly explains the methodology that was applied.