V.N.N. Rajendra Prasad of Rayalseema University, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, has said that teachers should lay stress on teaching students how to form sentences using words that give proper meaning. He was delivering the key-note address after inaugurating a two-day seminar sponsored by the University Grants Commission and organised by the English department of Veerashaiva College here on Friday.
“Presently the focus is on competence and not performance. Along with the skills to learn English language through listening, speaking, reading and writing, the students should be taught the skill of thinking, which is very important. For, the stress should be on teaching to know about the language and not just knowing the language as it enables one to develop communicative and cultural competence,” he said. Later, during the technical sessions, several experts in English spoke on various aspects of teaching grammar.
