Welcome to the course Reading & Speaking Skills!
In today’s highly competitive world, being proficient in the ‘de facto lingua
franca’, i.e., English, has moved beyond the clause of desirability to that of
absolute necessity. What follows naturally is for you being able to listen, read,
speak and write with an impressive command over English. As you all enter the
sphere of undergraduate education, most transitioning from the high school and
some pursuing a second undergraduate degree, it is imperative for you all to be
able to effectively read and speak to make the best use of the study materials as
well as the time spent in the study centres interacting with your teachers and
fellow students. The course, Reading & Speaking Skills, has been designed with
the objective of equipping you all with the requisite skills as well as understanding
of important issues to handle the immediate communicative challenges of
undergraduate education. Beyond that, it will help you face the greater challenges
of personal, professional and social lives.
The course also offers you valuable pointers on correcting pronunciation and
puts you through activities like role-plays, debates, presentations, discussions,
etc., to prepare you for the variety of occasions where you will need to put your
speaking skills to use. Our ultimate goal is to determine how practically
translatable are the lessons being catered to you all through the four Blocks
under this Course.
The focus on language skills is an empowering one, as in the Indian context,
English, in most cases, features as the second language to be added to the palate.
Consequently, there are varying proficiency levels and access to resources. In
the Indian educational system and its implementation in the different states, there
are considerable dissimilarities in terms of the period when learners are first
exposed to English. In English-medium institutions, contact with the language
occurs at a distinctly early level. However, for vernacular-medium institutions,
English comes into the picture at a later stage. This gap has serious implications
for learners entering an undergraduate programme with different proficiencies
and skills. Through this course, we have tried to address the gap and bring
everyone to an optimal level.
There is another crucial point that you all need to realise. When it comes to
improving language skills, need can never outweigh interest. It is a social reality
that in the Indian context, English has always been associated with upward social
mobility, elitism and prestige, academic pursuit, official and administrative usage.
However, even with this acknowledgement, the amount of time that most of you
devote to the use of English is troublesome. Outside the language classroom, for
the majority of learners, the language of interaction with people shifts back to
the regional one and you enjoy regional texts in your leisurely reading time. The
contextual motivation to learn English is problematic, as beyond the context the
need evaporates. When the need evaporates, English takes a backseat. Therefore,
it is essential to develop interest in lieu of need, to reap the benefit of a more
desirable state of English proficiency, as you get promoted to the subsequent
academic level or as you enter the professional sphere.
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