Aspects of English Language Teaching

Abstract

The main focus of the paper is on the individual skills of the language use. It also deals with definitions of these skills, the sub skills or components of each skill, and ways pertaining to the learning and teaching of the skills. One of the key principles of communicative pedagogy is to teach skills in an integrated manner. Assumptions of teaching and learning inherent in ELT class room are introduced so that a mind set or focus, necessary for the study of the principles of methodology is encouraged. It makes us know about basic issues in the field of English language teaching to improve teaching practices, rather than an orientation to the discussion of academic issues for the academic purposes. The paper introduces us to the activity of theorizing about the classroom. This means the principles of language teaching are arrived through analysis will be made by the learner through his own teaching practice but much of the analysis will be made on the basis of conclusions arrived by the theorists in the field. This is nothing but involving the behaviors of the participants of the teaching-learning process in the curriculum.