Myth No. 2: That grammatical analysis helps the students to write better English.
Hills’ Comment: … Students must learn to use the language grammatically, but that is done by guided practice, not by theory and analysis… a lot of what is taught as English grammar in Indian schools is incorrect or obsolete… He is taller than me is not wrong by modern standards; I will does not differ from I shall in contemporary English; a sentence which is good English in the active in a particular context is automatically bad English in the passive in that context, therefore conversation exercises from active to passive are not only useless but actually harmful; and so on.
CONTD…
S. Velayudhan
Former Director, RIESI, Bengaluru
was Head of the Department of English,
University of Calicut, Kerala
Former Director, RIESI, Bengaluru
was Head of the Department of English,
University of Calicut, Kerala
Courtesy: Perspectives on English Language Teaching by J. M. Ure and S. Velayudhan
Collected by: P. K. Jayaraj and R. Gangadhar, RIESI, Bengaluru
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