The Status Of Implementation And Use of Lesson Plan in English Language Teaching in Schools.

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

English teaching in India still remains a challenge. The pressure of population, pluralism, the colonial legacy, political compulsions, illiteracy, and lack of infrastructure, vested interests and the problem of training teachers make English teaching in contemporary India a highly complex activity. English is taught just to secure marks or to pass out. So the language ability of students is really bothersome to notice. At this stage, proper planning of lessons to be taught is essential, because every time a lesson is planned and taught, teachers can evaluate the plan, identify the parts that went well and those which were less effective and thereby improve upon the plan. The present study attempts to identify the different factors that cause problem in the implementation of lesson plan and it also tries to know the strategies being used by English Teachers in Class room teaching. ABSTRACT 1. Background and Rationale of the study: In a multilingual, multicultural country like India English Education assumes a unique place. In fact all education begins with language and English language is central to the whole process of education. It is therefore, essential that language teaching should be done sys- tematically so that learners understand and grasp properly whatever is taught to them in class. But there are several problems of teaching English at school level. Besides the problems inherent in foreign lan- guage learning there are certain unfavourable conditions which pre- vent effective teaching and learning in Indian schools. It is a common observation, that the secondary school child after the completion of the six years course is unable to speak and write sim- ple English as expected of him. This implies that there is something wrong with the learning conditions existing at present and that the teaching of English is infest with some significant problem. One of the significant problems is incompetent teachers and lack of professional growth. It is observed that a large number of language teachers gen- erally take this subject in a routine manner and therefore students become disinterested and disoriented towards learning English lan- guage. 2. Need and significance of the study: The teaching of English has become compulsory. The current status of English has turned a significant percentage of the world's popu- lation into part-time users or learners of English. Now-a-days the students are facing difficulties in learning English subject, so there should be a pilot study to assess the Feasibility of implementation of remedies and also about problems in implementation, then only the proper implementation of the suitable remedies are possible. There is a dire need to study the status of implementation and use of lesson plan in regular English language teaching in schools, so as to identify the lacunas in English language teaching to a certain extent. Though a lot of research has been carried out in the field of English language teaching, work on the use of the lesson plan and the status of imple- mentation of lesson plan is not found, therefore this investigation is being initiated.