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Hart, Blaire Creamer – English Teaching Forum, 2017
Dr. Santosh Kumar Mahapatra did not grow up speaking English, and studying English in secondary school was not easy for him. In fact, he almost failed the subject in Grades 10 and 12. Later, after he earned a master's degree in English Literature but still felt he could not speak the language well, he improved his English-speaking skills while…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Teaching Methods, Teaching Skills, Educational Strategies
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John, Divya – Teaching English with Technology, 2018
The aim of the present study was to find out whether students' active involvement in classroom activities can promote language learning. This paper, using practitioner research, examines the active involvement of first-year engineering students in a film activity. The research took place in three phases: (1) the students were divided into five…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Participation, Class Activities, Assignments
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Arora, Shweta; Joshi, Kavita A.; Koshy, Sonymol; Tewari, Deeksha – English Language Teaching, 2017
English being a global language has become a vital element in all walks of life. The feelers of this language have left no sphere unmarked with its significance. Despite such a colossal tide for gaining command over the language it was found that the conventional pattern of teaching English language could not reap desired results. A comprehensive…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Communication Skills
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Verma, Meenakshi Harraw – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2011
Engineering students tend to pay more attention to their core subject classes rather than on an English language class. They all come from different social and academic backgrounds and their knowledge of English language varies from one another. A mixed ability group throws many challenges to an English language teacher teaching to a grown up or…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Language Acquisition, Engineering Education, College Second Language Programs
Bhatia, Aban Tavadia – CIEFL Bulletin, 1977
An integrated approach to teaching English composition to undergraduate students in Indian universities is proposed. The integration in approach is realized in terms of an onward progression from the first to the third year of the degree course. The idea of an integrated approach (viewing the sentence and the paragraph in an integrated manner) can…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Pande, M. P. – CIEFL Bulletin, 1976
Questions related to the teaching of Russian and Soviet literature in the second language programs in India are explored, particularly, the amount of time to be devoted to the study of literature, an appropriate method, and the most appropriate time to introduce it. Russian has been taught in India for only 30 years and only recently have…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Objectives, Cultural Education, Foreign Countries