Open AccessEMERGING NEED TO RETHINK ENGLISH LANGUAGE PEDAGOGIES IN INDIAN TECHNICAL EDUCATION: CREATIVE PEDAGOGY A BETTER APPROACH FOR VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION
Author(s) -
Priyanka Mahajan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
humanities and social sciences reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2395-6518
DOI - 10.18510/hssr.2020.8199
Subject(s) - vocabulary , creativity , employability , novelty , mathematics education , originality , pedagogy , english for specific purposes , computer science , teaching method , psychology , linguistics , social psychology , philosophy
Purpose of the study: The present paper underlines the emerging need for English teachers to customize or introduce productive changes in prevailing pedagogies of vocabulary instruction in engineering classrooms. It places the creative teaching pedagogy as a better solution and lays impetus on the teacher’s innovation in preparing resources to help students organize lexical items into apposite contexts while writing and speaking.
Methodology: The paper identifies some of the creative methods of vocabulary instruction. This identification is based on the experiments conducted to facilitate the vocabulary instruction to the engineering students at the main campus of IKG Punjab Technical University, Kapurthala. These procedures are of ample significance for the students pursuing engineering or technical education.
Main Findings: The outcome of experiments and interactions with students emphasizes the wide range of current and contextual significance of creative pedagogy for teaching vocabulary to engineering students. The significance of a teacher's creativity and his/her active participation in vocabulary instruction is accentuated. The problem of the creation of resources that would train students to build up their language ability is also dealt with.
Application of this study: As the paper addresses the issue of building up the language ability of students of technical education to improve their employability, its applicability is extended beyond the disciplines of English Language teaching and technical education. This study and its utility can very well be customized and extended to different disciplines as well.
Originality/Novelty of this study: The usefulness of creative teaching pedagogy has not been fully realized because of the teachers’ reluctance to think inventively. The present study is new in the sense that it will enable teachers to adapt to creative teaching pedagogy, identify appropriate creative pedagogical techniques and innovatively adjust their teaching practices to suit diverse classes.