SECOND LANGUAGE TRANSACTION AT THE UG LEVEL�An overview of Principles and Practice

Shyla Abraham

Volume : V, Issue : XI, November - 2015

SECOND LANGUAGE TRANSACTION AT THE UG LEVEL�An overview of Principles and Practice

Shyla Abraham

Abstract :

 The ethnoculture content of an Indian class room presents challenges in the teaching and learning of English given the wide rift between pedagogical practices which often occurs in a social vacuum. The multilingual environment of the classroom and the cultural repertoire that learners come from can often hamper the communicative deliberations of language learning since learning of a language as a linguistic system is an interpretation of its cultural aspects including personal and ethnic identity (annual review of applied linguistics 1101.30). The problem is further compounded by the presence of a rigid examination system, arid text book resources, traditional pedagogical practices and an out dated evaluative methodology. In such a context, the objectives of learning English as a second language which includes achievement of individual language competency, social adaptability and emotional well being with respect to achieving communicative proficiency gets delineated in a culturally amalgamated classroom, especially at the under graduate level where learners come from different social, cultural, economic, ethnic , linguistic backgrounds