ELT Project Presentation

MAHARAJAKRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

GROUP MEMBERS- URVI DAVE & RANJAN VELARI

PAPER NAME- ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING- 2

GUIDANCE- DR. DILIP BARAD

Survey of English & Gujarati Medium School Student’s

Approach towards English Language

English Medium School- The KPES English School

Gujarati Medium School- Shree Divyjyot Primary School

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ObjectiveMethodologyApproachLanguage preferencePie Chart(Comparison of writing and speaking skills)Motive of learning English languageQuestions for StudentsQuestions for Teacher(Gujarati Medium)Questions for Teacher(English Medium)ObservationConclusion Experience

OBJECTIVE

To find out the difference between the level of English language of English Medium School Students and Gujarati Medium School Students of Sixth Standard.

To check their attitude and aptitude towards English language.

To check the level of competence between the students of English Medium and Gujarati Medium.

METHODOLOGY

Gathered information of SchoolsTook permission from PrincipalsPrepared questionnaireQuestionnaire are any written instruments that present respondents with a series of questions or statements to which they are to react either by writing out their answers or selecting from among existing answers. Questions are particularly efficient for gathering data on a large- scale basisOur target- 20 studentsTen objective questions and two descriptive questions were given to test their writing skills as well as grammar.A paragraph to test their speaking and reading skills.

Diary was also maintained in order to note the observations

Describing a Diary Study, it is that "The diary study is a method of understanding participant behaviour and intent by having participants record events as they happen. This recording usually occurs in two ways: participants answer predefined questions about events (feedback studies) or participants capture media that are then used as prompts for discussion in interviews (elicitation studies)

There are basically three types of interviews- Fully structured, Semi- structured and unstructured. The aim was to explore the thinking behind teacher's and student's approach towards English language using Semi-structured and unstructured style

Had a conversation with them and asked a few general questions

Had a talk with their English teacher

Analyzed the papers and prepared result

APPROACH In English Medium School, most of the students think that English is easy but just a few of them had problem regarding spellings and grammar.

In Gujarati Medium School, students faced problems in reading and writing. Most of them were not able to pronounce easy words.

In English Medium School, students think that English language is important as it may be helpful to them in the future.

In Gujarati Medium School, only a few students preferred English language as they faced difficulty in learning it as their base is also not clear.

LANGUAGE PREFERENCE

ENGLISH MEDIUM STUDENTS

•Some students preferred to speak in the language which they were having the subject like Sanskrit language in Sanskrit class, Gujarati language in Gujarati class.

• 30% Gujarati language 30% Both Gujarati and

English 40% English language

GUJARATI MEDIUM STUDENTS

• Most of the students preferred Gujarati language more as they couldn’t understand English language easily. They were taught English in Gujarati language which we also call The Grammar- translation method.

• 35% English language 65% Gujarati language

GRAMMATICAL ERROR

GUJARATI MEDIUM ENGLISH MEDIUM

SPELLING ERRORS

GUJARATI MEDIUM ENGLISH MEDIUM

SPEAKING ERRORGUJARATI MEDIUM ENGLISH MEDIUM

MOTIVE OF LEARNING ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Gujarati Medium: One student wanted to go Foreign Country and most of them didn’t reply as according to them English language is not important.

English Medium: According to some students, English language helps in business and they knew little about importance of technology. One student wrote that he wanted to become a CA and he had ample amount of knowledge about it.

Gujarati Medium Students didn’t want to shift in English Medium School as they face problems in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing (LSRW) skills.

Some of them couldn’t even write a single sentence properly. One student knew about cursive writing but was not able to write.

English Medium students were happy to be in English Medium School.

Most of the students knew how to write in cursive writing.

QUESTION FOR TEACHER

Gujarati medium- What is the level of the base of English language and to which extent are students serious about it? The base was not good at all when they took admission. Teachers are trying to make their base strong but students are there who are not at all serious about their studies and some are willingly studying.

According to Ms. Heena-“ English is important from primary as they learn everything very fastly in this age and can remember for lifetime. English is not at all harmful in this competitive world, they should be capable enough to compete with everyone and for this, they should know English language very well as it is a global language.”

English Medium- Is it necessary to learn English language in primary level?

They should be taught English language from primary as it constructs a base when they are on the urge of learning language. Speaking should be compulsory and teachers insist every student to speak and communicate in English language in order to improve their command over it.

“ In this modern era, English is necessary for everyone to become something, to reach to a national level, and compete with it.”

According to

Mrs. Dipti

OBSERVATION

Instructions had to be given in Gujarati as Gujarati Medium students couldn’t understand English well. We had to translate the questions in Gujarati language and had to do board work in Gujarati Medium School. Eight students didn’t have English as a subject till 5th standard. 6 students couldn’t read anything. Speaking skill was good of English Medium students.

CONCLUSION There is a huge difference between the students of Gujarati Medium and English Medium. The accent of Gujarati medium students differ a lot and even their level of competency is lower than English Medium students. Grammar & Spellings were also poor of Gujarati Medium students as they are not taught English language from elementary level.

EXPERIENCE

From this survey, we came to know about the attitude and aptitude of students towards English language. They were excited and were

taking part in every activity very enthusiastically. We learnt how to deal with

students. They were interested in interaction more than the tests. Finally we can assume

that they were happy and enjoyed the session as they had invited us to visit them

again.

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