A study on the identification of some effective esl teaching practices at the higher secondary level in select cbse schools in chennai and their implications for other school boards

Abstract

Education in the country today has different shades in terms of quality. newlineThere are many reasons for this and as expected of a developing country like newlineIndia, socio-economic factors play a major role in the kind of institutions newlinelearners can enroll themselves in. The enrollment of students at the school newlinelevel depends on their ability to afford the cost of education in a particular newlineschool under a particular school board. India boasts of five boards that operate newlineat school level, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), State Board, newlineIndian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), National Institute of Open newlineSchool (NIOS), and Indian Baccalaureate (IB). Every year, students who newlinefinish their secondary education and join universities and colleges for their newlinehigher education, come with different levels of proficiency in both English newlineand in their grasp of subject knowledge. The starting point of this research newlinewas the first year of college, where learners from CBSE schools compared newlinewith those from state board schools show greater confidence, greater newlineautonomy and independence in the learning style. newlineThe present study hence was undertaken with the intention of studying newlinethe teaching of English at the higher secondary level in CBSE schools and to newlinesee if there are any significant lessons for teachers who teach English as newlinesecond language (ESL) in the state board schools. The kind of education that newlinethe learners receive in the various school boards is not uniform or newlinecomparable. In terms of the number of students in class, to the syllabus, newlineteaching practices, teacher competence and the testing procedures, the newlineeducation that is offered has no similarity at all. Learners in a particular newlineschool board are trained in a particular way and this is what they carry right newline