Various Strategies, Special Needs in Developing Spoken English Skills

It is interesting to listen and see how English language is being contaminated particularly through sounds. Every State in India has its own language, commonly called Mother Tongue also there are many other Dialects within the states. In the state of Andhra the first language is Telugu and the Telugus have a definite problem with their pronunciation. To have a good spoken skill we should see to that English phonetics does correspond not with Telugu phonetics. Pronunciation of ‘syllabus-su’, ‘book-su’,. Careful and a little bit of caution in pronouncing language should be taught to the student to avoid mother tongue influence. Concentrating on phonetics of ‘z’, ‘sh’, ‘pa’, ‘pah’, ‘pe’,’pey’,’pay’ also reduces the risk of making mistakes in spoken language. Many people pronounce ‘Paper’ as ‘Pah-per’, ‘xerox’ as ‘gerox’, ‘zero’ as ‘gero’. Proper guidance should be given in teaching correct grammar; extensive use of plurals should be avoided. In native language there is a danger of using plural forms at the greater extent, like creation of plurals for words like, ‘People-s’, ‘Police-s’, etc, where there is no plural form. Also we see frequently in movies, serials, soaps and advertisements, where bilingualism is present. They tend to mix English and Telugu or Mother Tongue. So the situation is forcefully inclining towards bilingualism. Corporate schools are the best facility for a student to imbibe spoken skills, where as government schools no matter how hard they try to beat language skills into the students they fail in this area miserably. The argument in this paper is about bringing out few of the difficulties of the students in learning spoken skills, problems encountered in the context of language competency, grammar and skill development. It also discusses the vantage point in bringing few innovative ideas to master and boost the morale of the student in removing the fear of English language Spoken skills.