Various Methods and Approaches Available in Learning English

Abstract

An infant imitates the sounds made by the people around it. Gradually it picks up phonemes, syllables, subsequently sentences. The child imbibes in good oral articulation and fluent speaking in this process. With right exposure to the alphabet, it picks up good writing skills also. It is the natural process of acquiring first language. But when it comes to a foreign language like English, acquisition takes different modes such as learning it from an instructor, dependence on texts, mugging up the grammar and composition rules etc. Teachers are actually striving hard to make the student learn the language English as naturally as possible. They are adopting various methods and approaches to put the student at ease and make the student get rid of apprehensions. To speak the truth, despite all these efforts from an English teacher, many students aren’t comfortable with English. They have heaped in much fear about English. Thus my paper focusses on the available methods and approaches of English language learning with a twist of categorical implementation of those methods and approaches.