Assisting Second Language Learners With Speaking Prompts: An Experimental Study With Reference To ESL Learners From TBML College Of Porayar, Tamilnadu

M. Johnson Sangeetharaj, Dr. S. Shanmugasundaram

Abstract


Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is one of the effective methods of Language Learning tried out in many ESL Classrooms all over the world. It helps the second or foreign language learners to improve their communicative competence through a variety of tasks and activities which help the learners to interact with others effectively. This paper ‘Assisting Second language learners with Speaking Prompts’ – A Study with reference to TBML College students of Physics department from Porayar, Tamilnadu attempts to study Communicative competence of the learners who use speaking prompts. The central notion of Communicative Competence is to assist the learner to Communicate by focusing on form rather than meaning. This is done by making use of tasks, specifically designed for this purpose. When Learners speak they hesitate a lot, therefore they struggle to continue to speak. It is in this context CLT based tasks simply allow them to continue to speak, without worrying about their mistakes. Fluency is their immediate goal, accuracy is given importance at the later stage. Every time the students struggle to speak, their Communicative competence improves at least to a minimum level. Hence, this study makes use of ‘Spoken Prompts” (i.e. an easy to use scaffolding frame work that help them to speak) on various interesting topics so that the learners are allowed to speak on their own without worrying about their grammatical errors and they are given scores for their performance and these scores are analysed with the use of descriptive statistics.


Keywords


Communicative Competence, Spoken Prompts, Fluency, Accuracy, Scaffolding.

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