Teaching of English

I have written this book because a deliberate and systematic consideration of the peculiar problems presented in teaching English to Indian school pupils has never yet appeared in print, though different aspects of the question have been treated piecemeal from time to time. But these problems should be considered together if the instruction in English is to benefit from any general reform. At present the school pupil more often than not ends his high school career so deficient in the English of most use to him that he is seriously and permanently handicapped, whether he pursue further study at a university or enter on a vocation requiring the use of English as a common medium of intercourse. This book represents a deliberate, though not of course a final, attempt to find a remedy in two direction:- 1. By suggesting measures of organization and administration, 2. By advocating and explaining improvements in the method of teaching English in the schools. This book will be of great use to the school teachers, students teachers, administrators and the researchers.