ECLECTIC APPROACH
INTRODUCTION
The importance of English has increased all over the world and it is playing a key role in social, economic and cultural life. As English is part of professional life, each and every student should be good at English. An engineer will be qualitative and efficient if he gets proficiency in English. The English teacher plays a key role in developing language skills in engineering students. So it is challenging for a teacher to make them good at English. If he knows various approaches, and how to use them, it will be easy for the teacher to develop communication skills in students. The following are the objectives of English language Teaching.
To enable students comprehend spoken form
To develop students ability to use English in day to day life and real life situation
Read English with comprehension
To enable students write English correctly and meaning fully to express their ideas etc
There are various methods and approaches to teach foreign language and to meet the above objectives. The teacher has to play various roles to meet these objectives. So The Eclectic approach is the suitable approach in the language teaching to make students good at English and reach the objectives of English language teaching.
Eclectic Approach:
Eclectic approach to language teaching is mixed process of structural, communicative approaches. If the topic belongs to structures, teacher has to follow structural approach. If the topic belongs to speaking activity, he has to follow communicative approach. When the teacher teaches grammar topic, he can follow inductive or deductive, depends on age and rural background of the students. When he deals the topic phrases or idioms, he can use bilingual if students belong to rural background. If it is reading topic, he can use reading and audio lingual method. So it is combination of traditional modern approaches. It offers better opportunities to learn language skills. It gives good result without pressure on learner
Principles:
1. It gives a chance to teachers to select different teaching techniques in each period to reach aims of the lesson
2. It breaks monotony in one hand and ensure better understanding on the other hand
3. Different kinds of audio-visual and teaching aids lead to better understanding
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4. It saves a lot of time in presenting language activities Advantages:
1. Learners become attentive and respond
2. It offers multiple opportunities to students to develop their own skills
3. It enhances active participation
4. It makes learning lively & enjoyable
5. It breaks monotony
6. It promotes class control and students have interest in class and it allows class discussion
These findings confirm Krashens(1988) input hypothesis which assures that the best methods of second language teaching and learning supplied by comprehensive input and not forcing production
Drawbacks:
Though it has best approach in teaching English, it has also disadvantages
1. Brown (1994:74) said that practical eclecticism does not meet the criterion of efficiency. Theoretical eclecticism is suspicious on logical theoretical grounds
2. It is time consuming. It may not helpful to particular regional medium of language
3. It is not useful to slow learners
4. If the teacher does not have command over all methods and approaches, students confuse and de motivated Method.
