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Narration
for Improving Language Competence
Dr.
Rajendrasinh Jadeja Dr.
Ranganayaki Srinivas
A
Study To Analyse The Effect Of Narration Of Stories With A View To Identifying
Its Usefulness In Improving The M A [ELT] Students’ General Language
Competence. The
teaching and learning of English in India is beset with a number of problems. In
most schools and colleges students face problems in coping with their study
because of their poor language competence in English. Even the students who have
learnt English as a second language for about 8 years and who have studied
English Literature as their major subject at the degree level do not possess the
required competence to pursue their post graduate courses successfully. Unless
the students’ basic language competence is improved they would find it very
difficult to complete all the challenging assignments given to them as part of
their M A [ELT] course. A number of ways have been tried so far to improve their
linguistic and communicative competence but they have not yielded satisfactory
results. The
present study takes up the `Comprehension Hypothesis’ of Krashen and provides
`Input’ to the students in the form of stories narrated in class. These
stories are narrated in English and they are based on classics taken from
different languages. This
study uses the experimental design. There is no control group and hence the
results of the improvement in the post test are further validated by the
performance of the students in a number of oral and written class assignments as
well as the final examination. The opinion of the students as well as the
narrators about the experiment is collected through written reports and informal
interviews. There was significant improvement in the performance of the students both in the tests during the experiment and later as part of their M. A ELT course. They were able to perform better in the seminars and written assignments as well as the annual examination. Publications in Journals and seminar papers related to the research Þ ‘Language Exposure and Language Acquisition’. ELTip Newsletter. Vol.1. No. 1. October: 1999. Þ ‘The Effect of Narration on Language Competence’, Journal of English and Foreign Languages [JEFL]. Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages [CIEFL]. Hyderabad. No. 26 December: 2000. Awards Related to the Research Þ
Hari Om Ashram
Award for the best Research Paper in English for, ‘The
Effect of Narration on Language Competence’
, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, 2001. Þ
Award of a trophy
as Gaurav Chinnah, by the Cahrutar Vidyamandal, Vallabh Vidyanagar for research
work conducted on M. A. [ELT] students.
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