Enhancing Oral Acquisition amongst Adolescent Learners

Abstract

Teaching speaking skills is one of the challenging aspects in improving second language learner’s oral communicative acquisition. Rural adolescent learners in Telangana tend to avoid speaking English with in and out of the classroom. Students seem to have low oral communicative skills due to the absence of authentic and real language learning situations outside and inside the classroom. Most often, students from rural areas find hardly any opportunities to speak English in real contexts. The language is taught from the examination point of view as another subject. Teachers paraphrase lessons, explain language rules and give drills for reinforcement. With the effect of several factors on learning English as a second language, learner’s oral competencies have been in great damage. Those learners who get high scores in written examination or those who are good at any technical skills are unable to express themselves orally in English language. Therefore, it may be essential to nurture speaking skills in any programme on English language instruction.