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Listening is one of the four skills of language. Listening refers to comprehension of teachers’ i... more Listening is one of the four skills of language. Listening refers to comprehension of teachers’ instructions, stories or poem or any other concepts taught in English in the classroom by the students in this study. Listening leads to speaking. The foundation of listening is laid at primary level.The number of multilingual classrooms is rising in East Delhi Municipal Corporation schools. One of the reasons behind the growth of multilingual classroom are settling of migrants’ population coming from east UP, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, etc. in pursuit of jobs. Parents of the children studying in the corporation schools are employed mainly in daily wages work or low paid jobs. Parents speak their mother tongues in the family at home. Children get exposure of this language constantly at home and their habit of using mother tongue becomes natural for them. They start using this language in the classroom also.
Under such circumstances it becomes very difficult for teachers to teach listening and make the learners understand English. English becomes third or fourth language for some students where the mother tongue is the first language, Hindi being the second and English becomes third language.
Teachers more often raise their concerns about teaching listening in multilingual classes and creating exposure of English when they attend training at In-Service Teacher Education Institute. In order to have deeper understanding of the challenges faced by the teachers in teaching listening in multilingual classrooms and strategies they adopt to facilitate listening comprehension, I decided to conduct exploratory research on the topic.
Listening is one of the four skills of language. Listening refers to comprehension of teachers’ i... more Listening is one of the four skills of language. Listening refers to comprehension of teachers’ instructions, stories or poem or any other concepts taught in English in the classroom by the students in this study. Listening leads to speaking. The foundation of listening is laid at primary level.The number of multilingual classrooms is rising in East Delhi Municipal Corporation schools. One of the reasons behind the growth of multilingual classroom are settling of migrants’ population coming from east UP, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, etc. in pursuit of jobs. Parents of the children studying in the corporation schools are employed mainly in daily wages work or low paid jobs. Parents speak their mother tongues in the family at home. Children get exposure of this language constantly at home and their habit of using mother tongue becomes natural for them. They start using this language in the classroom also.
Under such circumstances it becomes very difficult for teachers to teach listening and make the learners understand English. English becomes third or fourth language for some students where the mother tongue is the first language, Hindi being the second and English becomes third language.
Teachers more often raise their concerns about teaching listening in multilingual classes and creating exposure of English when they attend training at In-Service Teacher Education Institute. In order to have deeper understanding of the challenges faced by the teachers in teaching listening in multilingual classrooms and strategies they adopt to facilitate listening comprehension, I decided to conduct exploratory research on the topic.