Teaching Speaking in the Nepalese Context: Problems and Ways of Overcoming them

Adhikari, Bal Ram

doi:10.3126/nelta.v15i1-2.4602

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“…With the CLT innovation, teachers' needs were overlooked, and to an extent, it was imposed on them. Teachers' needs are identified as qualification and training (Farooqui, 2014;Khan, 2011), teaching methods and strategies (Ahmed, 2018;Jahan, 2008;Khan, 2011), managing large size class (Adhikari, 2011;Akbari, 2015), lack of effective teaching materials (Chowdhury & Le Ha, 2008), and professional development (Anwaruddin, 2016) to implement the communicative approach in the context of Bangladesh. In addition, the reality of the classroom has certainly been ignored by the policymakers since there is an existing gap of communication between policymakers and implementers .…”

Section: Implementation Of Clt: Curriculum Method and Textbookmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The term Communicative English is used to signify the communicative competence necessary for effective interaction with other people, primarily through speaking and listening. Adhikari (2011) reported that the ability to speak accurate, appropriate, and effective English is vital for meaningful interaction that ensures students' communicative competence in English. He also argued that through the instructional materials, the teacher should provide students with the ample opportunity to relate syntax (rules of grammar) and morphology (vocabulary) to semantics (meaning) and pragmatics (language use) by means of interactive activities during teaching speaking.…”

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English language teaching in Bangladesh today: Issues, outcomes and implications

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Given the significance of English in the global world, English language teaching in Bangladesh has become subject to a supreme concern in maintaining economic growth and developing a skilled workforce. In this article, several barriers have been discussed based on a critical analysis of published materials. This review article covers several key issues such as the status of English in the country; English in education policies; factors affecting the implementation of communicative language teaching curriculum, method, and materials in Bangladesh; validity of the current assessment and its washback effect on English language teaching in Bangladesh; and current situation of teachers' professional development. The article concluded with language policy and planning implications for policymakers, curriculum and material developers, public exams' test-setters, and future English teacher training programmes, keeping the overall development of ELT in Bangladesh in mind.

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“…Unlike the implementation of grammar-based teaching where grammar is used as the base (Azar, 2007), using this multimedia-based material does not require the students to pay a lot of attentions to the grammar. This is very good to implement in teaching speaking since the purpose of teaching speaking is to make the students be able to speak (Adhikari, 2010). Nevertheless, this does not mean that grammar is not important in speaking.…”

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Using multimedia-based materials in teaching speaking to elementary school students in Kabanjahe

Sofyan

Tarigan

2019

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As the skill that usually becomes the reference of students’ success in learning English, teaching speaking needs to be given closer attention, especially in teaching English to elementary school students. Therefore, a careful choice of good approach, technique or media is required. This article aims at finding out the advantages of using multimedia-based teaching materials in teaching speaking to elementary school students in Kabanjahe, North Sumatra. This is a descriptive study taking the fifth year elementary schools students at SD Swasta Masehi in Kabanjahe of Karo Regency as the participants. The data were collected using observations and interviews. The data were analyzed qualitatively. The results of the study show that using multimedia-based materials benefits the speaking learning process in terms of increasing the students’ interest, reducing the students’ shyness, increasing students’ motivation, and promoting student-centered learning. It is concluded that using multimedia-based materials helps build elementary school students’ speaking ability.

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“…Bhattarai and Gautam (2005) also claim that Nepalese EFL teachers lack professional development and knowledge of networking with national and international experts. EFL learners in Nepal can barely communicate in English in a real life scenario (Shrestha, 2008;Adhikari, 2010) with pronunciation remaining as the predominant drawback. For this reason, this research study sought to test the hypothesis that training can improve the rhythmic English of Nepalese EFL learners.…”

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Training Effect on Speech Rhythm of Nepalese Non-Native Speakers of English

Aryal¹

2015

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This project aimed to ascertain the effect of training on speech rhythm of Nepalese non-native speakers of English. Six Nepalese and one native speaker of English participated in this research. A six-week training program was administrated and pre- and post-training guided speech samples were acoustically analysed. Acoustic measurement of the pre- and post-training speech samples showed that training played an important role in improving the rhythm of Nepalese non-native speakers of English. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v19i1-2.12077 Journal of NELTA, Vol 19 No. 1-2, December 2014: 17-31

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Teaching Speaking in the Nepalese Context: Problems and Ways of Overcoming them

Abstract: Fluency-first approaches such as Communicative Language Teaching and Task-based Language

Cited by 17 publications

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English language teaching in Bangladesh today: Issues, outcomes and implications

English language teaching in Bangladesh today: Issues, outcomes and implications

Using multimedia-based materials in teaching speaking to elementary school students in Kabanjahe

Training Effect on Speech Rhythm of Nepalese Non-Native Speakers of English

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