English Proficiency Programme: Motivation

An alarmingly large majority of educated Indians try to manage 40-50 productive years of their life with weak English, poor English, wrong English, or paralysed/dysfunctional English.

Because (i) they do not put in a sincere effort of ONE year to improve their English and (ii) nobody tells them that English is just a language, which cannot be very difficult to master.

On the issues of learning English as an additional language

At the right age (childhood)

• Not needed by the child for his/her own purposes
• Lack of background/ability/consciousness among parents
• Incompetence and lack of seriousness among teachers
• Lack of material and method
  • Need: Systematic course material and methodology; AND dedicated teachers.

In adulthood

• Lack of attention
• Pressure of responsibilities
• Change of priorities
• Disturbances
• Opinion and autonomy
  • Need: Systematic course material; AND resolve, patience and discipline.

For people in general

• False sense of knowledge
• False sense of inability
• Lethargy of taking up new/difficult task
• Reluctance to spend futile effort
• Fear of failure
• Learning seeming optional and of limited utlity
• Lack of confidence on the teacher/material/method/oneself
  • Need:
    • Trust, patience, discipline and long-term commitment;
    • The will to develop the ability to
      • understand any level of English,
        and
      • express any thought/feeling in English.

Audience of EPP

For whom is this course?

• School teachers,
• College and university students,
• Parents of young children,
• Professionals, particularly in secretarial and administrative jobs,
• ... And, others.

Who are taking this course?

• who think their English needs improvement and wish to improve,
• who are not sure of their English level and want to find out,
• who consider their English proficiency as adequate or good, yet would like it to be confirmed or certified, or
• who want to find out an effective method to teach English.

The promise of this course is not

• that it will make an expert out of you starting from any level.

The promise is

• that it will give you significant improvement starting from any level,

And, the bonus:

• beyond a threshold - so much power, such beauty - a delight, a blessing!

Features of EPP course

• A systematic scheme
• A representative and suggestive set of material
• Material and Method rolled together
• Starting from the base, targetting the top
• Beneficial use of the medium of CLL
• Scalability for audience of different backgrounds
• Modular Structure