METHODS AND PRINCIPLES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
METHODS AND PRINCIPLES ELT in India today That is one side of the picture. The other side is that in educationally backward families, success in learning English has been elusive. Every year, thousands of students fail at examinations in English. In spite of years spent learning English, fluency and accuracy elude the learner. This has adversely affected the morale of many learners and their dissatisfaction with the official sector in ELT has given rise to a huge private industry. That the private sector has also failed is a different story. In a community where success in life depends upon success in learning English, here is a challenge for ELT. Several studies, for example, Sawhney (1980), Parashar (1979) and Chaudhary (1981) have found that many factors contribute to the learning of English in India. Of these, the more important appears to be motivation and the extent of availability of the language around the lea