Shruti Varadarajan If I were an English teacher, I’d ask my students to read the best storybooks of the day, such as Harry Potter, Percy Jackson or Agatha Christie. If I were an English teacher, I’d ask my students to Read More …
Category: Nuts and Bolts
On learning English
Anindya Chanda Learning the English language is a boring task for many. Taking down pages and pages of dictated long answers, mugging up lists of meanings of words… students just don’t like it. However, this doesn’t always have to be Read More …
Confronting the grammar question
Aditi Mathur and Ratnesh Mathur Important note: This article is not about grammar. This article uses grammar to explore a bigger and deeper myth about learning. Do we need to learn grammar? Answering this question in the negative in a Read More …
Use of CCE in English classrooms
Lina Mukhopadhyay In the present age, we need to impart language education in a way that learners find it meaningful and beneficial. Learners will be convinced of the benefits if they are able to use the target language (here, English Read More …
Linking assessment to learning: what does it mean?
Rama Mathew In this article, I will share some of my experiences and ideas on assessment, especially language assessment. As I write it, what I want to convey seems to vacillate between utter frustration and disillusionment on the one hand Read More …
“Yes” means “No,” isn’t it?
T Sriraman Teachers and syllabus makers always come up against the problem of selection while designing remedial courses, or “bridge courses” as they were once called. While there is general agreement about the problem areas for Indian learners of English Read More …
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Malini Seshadri You are a teacher of English and you are visiting another school. The students are strangers to you. You have just asked a senior class to write out their answers to this question: How is the sex of Read More …