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- Title
Developing an ESP Based Module to Improve Speaking Skills of Elementary Teachers in Low Fee Private Schools.
- Authors
Mushtaq, Muhammad
- Abstract
There are many areas of teacher training in general but communication skills is one of the most vital aspect which cannot be neglected at any cost particularly in language classes. Communication and speaking skills is the essence of language learning but it is not emphasised as much as it should be in medium enterprises schools in Pakistan where three channel educations is imparted, state owned schools, highly resourceful privately managed schools and low fee privately managed schools. The teachers in the last one are mostly fresh graduate or some time they have just left their own education. They neither have skills nor experience of teaching in general and teaching of English language in particular. These newly inducted teachers have many weaknesses. But a commonly known area of their weakness (as it is observed by the researcher during last twelve professional years) is lack of communicative skills or teaching English on functional basis. The problem requires having a low cost, easily manageable training module that could develop speaking skills of the teachers. That is why the researcher developed an ESP based module to address the speaking skills of the teachers. The module is a low cost project for low income schools to enhance an effective role of English language teachers in their schools, providing them an opportunity to set themselves on track where the teachers' students both can learn English for communicative purposes. The population consisted of twenty five English language teachers and ninety five students selected from the class where these teachers teach English. A questionnaire was developed to determine the deficient areas for pre and post analysis. An ESP based module was developed consisting on the contents that could be conducted in 20-25 days, two hours daily. When the same questionnaire administered earlier to them was given once again it seemed that there was a significant difference among students and staff which proved that the module worked well and it needs to be conducted in other schools as well. The results show that the module was an effective way to improve speaking skill of the teachers. The improvement was explored through conducting pre and post-test of the teachers.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; TRAINING of English teachers; COMMUNICATIVE competence; ENGLISH language education; PRIVATE schools; MADRASAHS
- Publication
Language in India, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 10, p342
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article