Reflection of English Language Teaching in Formal Education

Tanumay Panda
Assistant Professor in English, B.Ed. Section, Kalna College, Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52756/ieldps.2022.e01.003

Keywords: ESL, Vernacular, Pedagogy, Andragogy, ELT.

Abstract:
In a country like India, where a huge number of learners are teenagers, part of pedagogy and andragogy, where sufficiently trained teachers are not available, and where the internet is the source of global education, English happens to be the most important language to learn. Mass technical, practical, non-formal and most vitally formal education in India relies upon English language teaching. Misconceptions regarding English subject learning-teaching in schools, misconceptions regarding the reason for giving importance to English in India, and many more points are acting as obstacles to the overall development of both pedagogy and andragogy. Hence in this study, the misconception regarding English language teaching in the pedagogical teaching community in India has been discussed. The „Indian education system‟s history was pathetic and horrible from the eleventh century onwards. An indigenous form of education was continuously exploited and spoiled by several invaders. India was broken into pieces by its culture and concurrently by its language. During the colonised era of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, both the coloniser and the colonised understood in their own way, English is the only contemporary language to learn to fetch the solution to the problems of employment to rule India and, on the contrary connecting east to the west and south to the north of India to organize the rebellions more harmoniously to get freedom for the country. After Independence, even today, India could not find another suitable solution to replace the English language in the field of education. Today, in the third decade of the twenty-first century, English is playing the most aggressive role in capturing parents‟ faith regarding the future success of newgeneration students and aspirants.