An Assessment Of English Listening And Speaking Skills Of The Learners From Early Immersion Model -An Experimental Study

Abstract

English is the language of the world and key to the upward mobility. English symbolizes in Indians’ minds as better education, better culture and higher intellect. Indians who know English often considered to be of in a prestigious positions in the society, since it is a most read and written language.  It is also believed that English fetches good career prospects. It aggravated in the minds of the parents which made them to enroll their wards in English medium schools as expected to provide immersion language teaching at the early stage. As researches state that immersion language teaching produces better language proficiency and the early and complete immersion always provide better results in the acquisition of English language. In this context this paper is an attempt to assess the speaking and listening skill acquired by the learners coming from early immersion model.