Improving Oral Communication through Direct Method in Rural Schools of Telangana

Proficiency in English language plays an important role in various fields ranging from politics and journalism to everyday communication. Good communication skills will go a long way in developing good interpersonal relationships at workplace. Subsequent to the advent of globalization and reduction of the world to a global village, the need for proficiency in English language speaking has become much starker. The mobility of people across countries has multiplied manifold and the boundaries between nations have collapsed. Consequently, the need for an international language, which would facilitate social intercourse among people belonging to various languages, arose. English fulfilled that need and emerged as the lingua franca. This paper focuses on one of the best and the most natural way of imparting oral language teaching to the students i.e. The direct method.