Collections of Professor Dr David Ngin Sian Pau

I like the term used in the lesson which is Communicative Language Teaching, and it has more interactive views of language teaching, which collectively came to be known as CLT. I believe that Communicative Language Teaching advocates subscribed to a broad set of principles such as these:

·Learners learn a language through using it to communicate.
·Authentic and meaningful communication should be the goal of classroom activities.
·Fluency is an important dimension of communication.
·Communication involves the integration of different language skills.
·Learning is a process of creative construction and involves trial and error.

The reason why I would use this type of lesson is to make students practically speak the English language as accurately as they can, and it would become an interactive speaking pragmatic among the students. Since the teacher, whether he or she is a professor or instructor, is only one in all learning classes, therefore, it’s no doubt that every student doesn’t have the opportunity of talking to the teacher in every class. Therefore, student to student interactive in-class activities such as debating in groups and in pairs would be the best way of meliorating their spoken English. Actually, it would be the best idea that the teacher renders students enough time to prepare for the lesson if they are willing to prepare themselves for the betterment of their English speaking ability. I am talking about learning how to speak English because non-native English speakers want to learn the language not only for the purpose of being able to write and read but also for the purpose of being able to speak the language fluently, which is the main priority of learning English. They have been learning grammar and writing as a subject since their childhood. So it’s understood that they knew some English grammar well in advance and how to make sentences in English. In this case, the most important postulate of teaching English to these students would be learning how to speak the language instead of teaching them grammar and writing most of the time.

The break down barriers at this stage of learning English are shyness, lack of courage, lack of self-extrovert, and lack of practicality. To overcome these stag, asking students to come to the front of the classroom to do debate and speak out the language would meet the requirement needed to be being over comers of shyness and lack of courage. To overcome lack of practicality and self-extrovert, more chances of doing interactive in-class activities would definitely help them a glibly-correct translation of the language from the most understood language to English within their mind which is the acquisition of language, and it will eventually give them self-extrovert. That is the reason why I would use this particular method and lesson plan for advance level English learners which I think will eventually become the best methodology of teaching English for people who want to brush up their English speaking skill in a shortest possible time.

Dr.David Ngin Sian Pau MA, PhD, DPh.(ongoing research)
Teaching English Professor/Instructor
Cosmos International University
http://www.ciuac.org Submitted on 14^th April, 2009