EFFECTIVE TRAINING FOR PRIMARY ENGLISH TEACHERS: NEED OF THE HOUR

Abstract

The English language education today in Andhra Pradesh has been criticized for its inability to come up with a successful outcome. Most of the parents in rural areas are withdrawing their children from government regional medium schools due to lack of English teaching in Andhra Pradesh. The English language curriculum at the school level includes materials production, teaching methods, learner roles, evaluation processes, assessment criteria etc, but most of the teachers are from regional medium background. For these regional medium background teachers, it is very difficult to teach in English as the syllabus from the 1st to 5th classes is beyond their standard and the concepts are complex to understand. Sometimes some words are very difficult to pronounce for regional medium teachers. The purpose of this article is to explore teacher training practices for the teaching of English at the primary level.