Shifting focus of language teaching in Pakistan
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2013
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university of Management and Technology
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Developing proficiency in English is imperative because of its instructional stature among all other languages of the world. Hence being an international language its acquisition is considered not only compulsory as well as a prestigious value being added to a person’s profile. Generally, students, professionals, business leaders and all those engaged in administrative duties need to interact in English due to its valuable and respected lingual status among the rest of the languages. Primarily, developing proficiency in English language is one of the major goals of each student at tertiary educational level. However, a major shift has been observed quite evidently among the language stakeholders i.e. our youth primarily and public generally is obsessed for developing proficiency of spoken English skills at the cost of their writing skills in the course of academic learnings, which are inevitable part of every language. To cater this need, our print and electronic media, our academic syllabi and course-contents at higher education-level, various institutes of spoken English all over the country, foreign funded agencies like US-AID and NGO’s under the umbrella of HEC, are major facilitating platforms in this agenda.
This particular research addresses the need of shifting focus of language teaching in Pakistan, primarily focusing more on vocal-skills by neglecting academic language skills. The researcher has collected data through random sampling by using quantitative methods of research, research articles, research journals and during participation in various English language workshops and programs. The data were maintained in response of the students and teachers of higher education. The researcher finds partiality in the attitude of the students and the teachers concerned with English as language towards the verbal / oral dimension of the target language acquisition rather than writing / academic skills
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M.A Thesis, English Language and Literature