English is the bread winning rather prestigious language. It penetrates every nook and corner of the world. The necessity of English is enormous. One cannot deny the usages of English Language in India. In the recent years, most of the young parents send their children to English medium schools knowing the importance of English. English is indispensible in the life of Indians. Scrase remarks that “English is recognised as an important global or international language essential for professional employment and significantly, a key component of the cultural capital of middle class Indians” (20). The government also spends lot of money to improve skills of the students in English. All most all the schools in India adopted communicative method
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They are afraid of speaking in front of the other students and faculty. They feel that they may commit mistakes that would spoil the image of them. Interestingly, boys in the class are much worried about their errors when girls are presented. It shows that they want to maintain superiority but ground reality is different. Both boys and girls have adopted certain strategies to cope with the problems of speaking. Nakatani says that “communication strategies can be divided in two types: Achievement and compensation strategies. Students use these strategies for coping with speaking problems during communicative tasks” (154). Further, Cohan identified that “the second language learners follow some strategies which include retrieval strategies, rehearsal strategies, cover strategies and communication strategies”(3). Similarly, Cenoz observed some of the strategies of the students such as “self correction, reformulation, repetition” (4). Gallagher points out that “there are three strategies used mostly by students were practicing, revising and repetition …show more content…
2.3.Instrument A Specially designed questionnaire was prepared and circulated among students in order to collect data. The first part is devoted for students’ personal details and in the second part, the researcher asked students to speak any topic which they liked. This was enabling the research to collect more dada otherwise they would memorise and repeat some stuff. Speeches of students were recorded and transcribed separately for further analysis.
3. Data Analysis and Discussions The researcher has analysed transcribed data and classified them into various categories. Further, he made quantitative analysis to prove validity of the study. The following are commonly adopted strategies of the students. 3.1. Recurrence Recurrence is the traditional strategy to memorise certain complex formula and slogans. Later, the same method has been followed by students to reproduce whatever printed in the textbook and also succeeded in written exams. So, they adopt the same method when they speak. Here are some example sentences.
1. *I ...I....I like ...Like to present problems of ...of
They are afraid of speaking in front of the other students and faculty. They feel that they may commit mistakes that would spoil the image of them. Interestingly, boys in the class are much worried about their errors when girls are presented. It shows that they want to maintain superiority but ground reality is different. Both boys and girls have adopted certain strategies to cope with the problems of speaking. Nakatani says that “communication strategies can be divided in two types: Achievement and compensation strategies. Students use these strategies for coping with speaking problems during communicative tasks” (154). Further, Cohan identified that “the second language learners follow some strategies which include retrieval strategies, rehearsal strategies, cover strategies and communication strategies”(3). Similarly, Cenoz observed some of the strategies of the students such as “self correction, reformulation, repetition” (4). Gallagher points out that “there are three strategies used mostly by students were practicing, revising and repetition …show more content…
2.3.Instrument A Specially designed questionnaire was prepared and circulated among students in order to collect data. The first part is devoted for students’ personal details and in the second part, the researcher asked students to speak any topic which they liked. This was enabling the research to collect more dada otherwise they would memorise and repeat some stuff. Speeches of students were recorded and transcribed separately for further analysis.
3. Data Analysis and Discussions The researcher has analysed transcribed data and classified them into various categories. Further, he made quantitative analysis to prove validity of the study. The following are commonly adopted strategies of the students. 3.1. Recurrence Recurrence is the traditional strategy to memorise certain complex formula and slogans. Later, the same method has been followed by students to reproduce whatever printed in the textbook and also succeeded in written exams. So, they adopt the same method when they speak. Here are some example sentences.
1. *I ...I....I like ...Like to present problems of ...of