Many Indian Language Teachers use to teach Grammar in the process of Teaching English for Communication purpose. I just astonished the way they teach to the aspirants! Language teaching is not an easy task since it is a personal skill.
People from the world corners found the importance of Communications in English language due to Globalization. So the demand for the language also drastically increased, but the methodology is not changed in reference with Indian English Language Teachers. The fact is that, they teach only Grammar in the course duration.
As per my knowledge:
The application or Practice of language should be given more importance rather than teaching Grammar! What after all we required to communicate with people in foreign language? We just require knowledge of verbs and the knowledge of framing sentences as per the Time sense and Mood.
I say very clearly that we can speak any language without Grammar!
Even in United Kingdom, where the language is born - many people are not familiar with Grammar of English, but they are communicating in English. Take our native languages also as examples!
Except language teachers, all the other professionals who work in Multi National Companies should learn how to communicate in English. They don't want to learn Grammar.
The professionals just require knowledge of Verbs and sentence Formation - Thats all make a sense of communication.
The methodology of English Teaching in Indian Institutes also need to be changed. The teachers should give weightage of ten percent only for constructing knowledge, and the remaining ninty percent needs to be put on application of language.
As I mentioned earlier, language is a personal skill, the teachers want to study the personality of an aspirant of language. Many people are reluctant to learn foreign language due to many personal complexities.
The language teachers are not meant to teach English but they have to turn as Mentors.
They need to study the personality of a language seeker. Then the study makes them to mentor the aspirants.
I have been teaching International English without Grammar to many students from the world's corner since 2000.
Once it happened to me to watch some people talking in English - they are the students of a local Language School. A lady from the group began to speak to me about some issues in the organization. " I have been watching him since 20007........." I wondered and felt little pity about the lady. She has taken a long pause to frame the sentence. Its obvious to use some words like since, but it is not necessary to use with 'have beeen.'
She can express the sense in this manner also " I am watching him since 2007" I dont find any wrong by expressing like this. The objective of any conversation in any foreign language is same as - the meaning should be conveyed. The usage of appropriate sense of time itself gives a correct meaning of the situation in description. So my suggestion is that people just required knowledge of time and usage. We already adopted application process in teaching English. It gives me a tremendous result! If you too have any problem with your Language teachers, just send me an email, I hope that I could guide you!
