A to Z of English Teaching ( Well! This is only a way to say a few things in this regard)

a) English teaching should be skill-based instead of content base.
b) Classroom teaching should be child centered instead of being teacher centered.
c) Teacher of language should act as a Manager/fecilitator inside the classroom rather than acting as an informer.
d) Learner should be encouraged to improve their spoken English by seeing to it that they are not intimated every now and then by constant correction, i.e., by laying emphasis on accuracy at the initial level itself.
e) Grammar should be taught in a context and not in isolated sentences. Moreover, grammer exercises should be taken up regularly for a little time instead of teaching grammar on only some fixed day, i.e., once in a week and teaching it for the whole period.
In other words grammar should be integrated with MCB and Literature book.
f) Teacher’s Diary should be written exercise-wise. That is, they should mention that how a particular exercise will be taken up.
g) Poems should be read out in the class once or twice and instead of explaining the poem line-wise or word-wise, as used to be done in the traditional method, questions giving an insight into the poem should be asked to the students and answers elicited from them.
h) In order to increase the interaction among the students they should be encouraged to give answers and others should be aksed either to agree or disagree with the answers and give their suggestions if any.
i) Similarly, students should be asked to comprehend the meaning of difficult words from the given context themselves or in peer groups. This kind of process is called as ‘Word Attack’.
j) We shouldn’t tell the students what they can find out for themselves. This way learning becomes interesting and at the same time lasting.
k) Students should be made aware of different text-types and their important features. For example while making them write on some ‘process’ they should be made aware of its features that (i) we should make use of sequence Markers (first, next, then, before, after, simultaneously, alternatively, etc) ii) we should write in Active Voice if the doer is important and should write in Passive Voice if the action is to be emphasized, and iii) we should make use of Simple Present Tense.
l) Exercises given to the students should be scientific in approach. That is, they should proceed from controlled to guided to free expressions.
m) Language learners should be made aware of approapriacy of the language. That is, use of language in different situations.
n) Dramas should be first read out by different students in the class and then enacted also.
o) Best speech / Debate prepared inside the class should be taken up in the Morning Assembly also. This would act as a very good incentive for the students.
p) Similarly Notices / Posters / Graphs prepared by the students should be highlighted on the School Notice Board / Students Notice Board / Class Notice Board.
q) To involve the students in the correction work. For without involving the learners in the correction work checking work done separately will be pedagogically speaking of very little use.
r) To encourage the students to watch / listen / read English articles / News / Serials on / in TV / Radio, Newspaper and novels.
s) We should inculcate reading habit among the students. They should be asked to write a Book Review at least one per month.
t) We should test what is taught and check what is tested. That is our objectives should be very clear-cut.
u) Our question papers should test all the skills.
v) Ambiguity should be avoided in the questions.
w) Rubrics in the question paper should be clear enough to be understood by the students.
x) Questions should be of all the levels.
y) Marks allotted should be clear.Finally in this new approach more emphasis is to be paid on Learn, Learner and Learning than on Teach, Teacher and Teaching.