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michael west’s method, experience and effect p l a n : introduction main part: 1. michael west and the origin of his method 2. methods and approaches of teaching as a foreign language 3. reading as the main role in michael west’s new approach conclusion references introduction this shift from theological teaching to the understanding of modern scientific knowledge required the learning of a foreign language. it was for the first time that the schools formally started teaching english through literature of 16th, 17th, and 18th century. the major task was not only to educate people but also propagate and familiarize them with the western culture culminating during colonial period. this culture mainly inspired aristocrats and their families because english influenced the colloquial languages of subcontinent. in fact, it played a part in linking two diverse cultures for maintaining sociocultural, political, and commercial relations with the native communities. after the …

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nough, yet the methods are not easy to grasp in practice because a method, however ill-defined it may be, is more than a single strategy or a particular technique. as a part of language teaching theories, these methods derived partly from social, economic, political, or educational circumstances, partly from theoretical consideration, partly from practical experience, intuition, and inventiveness. therefore, to some degree, they represent a combination of language teaching beliefs, but it is evident that they are characterized by the over-emphasis on single aspects as the central issue of language teaching and learning. the topicality of the research: is also known as natural method. it was developed as a reaction to the grammar translation method and is designed to take the learner into the domain of the target language in the most natural manner. the main objective is to impart a perfect command of a foreign language. the aim of …

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where his father, a church of england minister, was headmaster. he was educated at marlborough college, then oxford. as a student at christ church college, he studied english, although with mixed success and little apparent enthusiasm. in 1912, having joined the indian education service, he was posted to bengal, and, from the first, he seems to have taken his duties as a colonial educator very seriously, beginning with an attempt to learn written bengali prior to his departure. in 1914 he published a textbook on educational psychology for longmans, green, apparently having taught himself in this area also.[footnoteref:1] [1: mehta, r.l. 2002. the teaching of english in india. bombay: orient longmans. ] on arriving in india, west was first assigned to david hare training college, calcutta, but was soon transferred to the teachers’ training college in dacca, east bengal. following war service, he was reassigned to a large-scale survey of …

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ability in english, nor were they able to speak more than disjointed sentences, and they could write only very slowly and laboriously. similar concerns regarding the inefficiency of the existing system were expressed by numerous respondents to a calcutta university commission survey of 1919. all subjects were taught in english at the university and its affiliated colleges but most respondents were concerned that matriculating students had insufficient english for academic purposes. while the majority of indian respondents argued in favor of expanding bengali-medium instruction, both at school and university levels, some – mostly british – voices were in favor rather of retaining english-medium instruction and improving the efficiency of english teaching. west, in his own responses to the commission’s questions on the issue of medium of instruction, argued against the idea of concentrating on english to the detriment of mother tongue instruction. instead, he stated that he was in favor …

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a foreign professor. the missionaries give two years’ language teaching to their new recruits, and they do their propaganda in bengali – and they know more of the country and its ways than the whole education service put together. given that west was in favor at this stage of a reduction of the amount of attention devoted to english at primary, secondary and tertiary levels, it should already be clear that he was not in favor of the propagation of english at the expense of education in the vernacular. the above quotations show, at the same time, that he was keen to improve english instruction in schools for all pupils, not only the relatively privileged elite who could afford to continue at school until matriculation level. to solve this problem he was later to emphasize the importance of developing reading to the exclusion of other skills; this emphasis was not …

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michael west’s method, experience and effect p l a n : introduction main part: 1. michael west and the origin of his method 2. methods and approaches of teaching as a foreign language 3. reading as the main role in michael west’s new approach conclusion references introduction this shift from theological teaching to the understanding of modern scientific knowledge required the learning of a foreign language. it was for the first time that the schools formally started teaching english through literature of 16th, 17th, and 18th century. the major task was not only to educate people but also propagate and familiarize them with the western culture culminating during colonial period. this culture mainly inspired aristocrats and their families because english …

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