Life skills and english language learning

LifeSkillsandEnglishLanguageLearning
DR. K. KANTHIMATHI
17-12-2020 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - SRMIST
Workshop
on
Language and Literature: Oasis of Life

Pick the one’s that you think are essential for life
17-12-2020 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - SRMU

Life Skills
Skills needed to deal well and effectively with the challenges
of life
Skills you need to make the most out of life
Any skill that is useful in your life can be considered a life skill
Abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable humans to deal
effectively with the demands and challenges of life
W.H.O

LIFE SKILLS for young people
 Helps to develop self-confidence
 Successfully deal with significant life changes and challenges
 Gives them a voice at school/college, in their community and in society
 Enables them to make a positive contribution by developing expertise
 Experience they need to assert their rights and understand their
responsibilities
 Prepare for the challenges and opportunities of adult and working life

LifeSkills
Life skills are
behaviours
that enable
individuals to
adapt and deal
effectively with
the demands
and challenges
of life
Self-awareness Critical thinkingEmpathy
Creative
thinking
Problem
Solving
Effective
communication
Interpersonal
relationship
Coping with
emotions
Coping with
stress
Decision
making

LIFE SKILLSin EDUCATION
Personal
Academic
Social
Vocational

Effective communication
What does it involve?
Role of Non-verbal communication?
Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing Skills
Interpersonal and Communication Skills

Communicate Effectively
Well organized ideas
Expressed in complete and coherent sentences
Style, tone and clarity
Choice of words - formal and Informal
◦ Comprehend Mistaken
understand erroneous

Effective communication
Career -Interview
Personal life
Verbal messages
Paraverbal messages
Non verbal messages

Goodcommunication
Clear
Confident
Comfortable
Capture
Convince
Creative

Language
Language is a set of words to express our ideas to others.
Language is the means of expression of our thoughts.
A language comprises of sounds, words and sentences.
English is easy or difficult?
English is everyone’s language – global language

WhyEnglish?
English
Link
language
Language
of
education
World
Language
Language
of Jobs

World Language
English language of Business
Language of popular culture
Ever expanding language
Spoken by over 2 billion people around the world

Language Skills
Elements of improving spoken English
What strategy works for you
Choose the best
Start small
Be regular

Words
Pronunciation
Sentences
Input
Output

What do you need to Speak?

Vocabulary
Wide range of words
Develop Fluency
Context related words
Active
Vocabulary
Passive
Vocabulary
Adhoc
Vocabulary

Method - 1

Method - 2
Learn and Use the right word
walk: move on one's feet.
limp: walk unevenly because one leg is
hurt.
hobble: walk with difficulty.
stagger: walk unsteadily as if about to fall.
tiptoe: walk on the tips of one's toes.
stroll: walk for pleasure.

Method - 3
Etymology
Understand root words
and their meaning

Root words
A basic word to which affixes
(prefixes and suffixes) are
added is called a root word

Method - 4
Collocations
A word or Phrase frequently used
with another word or phrase,
in a manner that it sounds suitable
Combination of words

Commonly Confused Collocations

Method - 5
Formulaic expressions/ multi-words
◦Can I have ___
◦How much does ____ cost?
◦How are things?
◦How’s life?
◦Same as always
◦I am doing good/great.

Apologies Praise Opinion
Please accept my
apologies
I am very sorry
for
Excuse me
Pardon me
Sorry about that
How great to see
you
Wonderful..
That is great..
Excellent
achievement
In my opinion
I believe that
I feel
I think that

Method - 6
Learn a few Idioms

CAN YOU GUESS THE IDIOMS?

Method - 7
Be Descriptive (range of emotions)
Don’t use Very often
Sad, Very Sad
- Unhappy, dejected, sorrowful, miserable
Good, Very Good
– Excellent , Amazing, Marvellous, super, Outstanding

Free E-resources to improve English
Language Skills

Spoken discourse – manner of speaking
Listening skills – keen observation and repetitions – pronunciation
Hear and listen – listen again and again
Language acquisition – real time talks – conversational language
practice
Phonetics – sounds of the language – avoid confusion
Practice speaking
Indian English – intelligible

Phonetics

Story Building

Picture Story Telling

Doyouknow?
Which is the shortest and most commonly
used word in English?
A period of forced isolation ?
Who is called the man of Vocabulary (India)?

Exposure to Language
Cartoon shows
Travel channels
Cookery shows
Lyrics of songs

Language through Literature
Swami and Friends - R K Narayan
Kanthapura – Raja Rao
House of Cards - Sudha Murthy
Arundhathi Roy
Chetan Bhagat
Sashi Tharoor
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Fantastic Mr Fox – Roald Dahl

Literature
Usage
Vocabulary
Slangs, idioms, phrases
Life incidents
Real life experiences
Language use in situations
Through stories, plots, characters
Dramatization
Role play

Read anything that interests you
Read headlines
Readability
Read all genres
Don’t bother about vocabulary

• Learn language through literature
• Cultural appropriateness
• Translated story
• Something that you can understand
• Learn by imitating – short and simple sentences
• Record and Revise

Raja Rao
We cannot write like the English. We should not. We cannot
write only as Indians. Our method of expression... has to be a
dialect which will some day prove to be as distinctive and
colourful as the Irish and the American. Time alone will justify
it.
One has to convey in a language that is not one’s own the
spirit that is one’s own.... English is not really an alien
language to us. It is the language of our intellectual make-
up...not our emotional make-up,”

I am Indian, very brown, born in Malabar,
I speak three languages, write in
Two, dream in one.
Don't write in English, they said, English is
Not your mother-tongue. Why not leave
Me alone, critics, friends, visiting cousins,
Every one of you? Why not let me speak in
Any language I like? The language I speak,
Becomes mine, its distortions, its queernesses
All mine, mine alone.
It is half English, half Indian, funny perhaps, but it is honest,
It is as human as I am human, don't
You see? I
Kamala Das

What are the magical words to
improve language?

English Language Learning - Life Skill
Confidence
Make you more employable
Language creates many opportunities
Language to explore the world

Language
Communication
AcademicVocational
Social
LIFE SKILLS

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https://englishharmony.com/
https://knowyourphrase.com/

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