The Enlightening Snippets as Value Added Edutaining ELT Materials for language skills and life skills – a Pedagogical Appraisal

International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

© 2014 by SSRG - IJHSS Journal

Volume 1 Issue 2

Year of Publication : 2014

Authors : G.S.Suresh

10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V1I2P101

How to Cite?

G.S.Suresh, "The Enlightening Snippets as Value Added Edutaining ELT Materials for language skills and life skills – a Pedagogical Appraisal," SSRG International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, vol. 1,  no. 2, pp. 1-3, 2014. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V1I2P101

Abstract:

This paper is a peppy and a happy proposal to the bibliophile and technophile teaching fraternity of English to beef up their pedagogy and materials time after time by evolving a conglomeration of Value Added Edutaining Snippets – ELT materials ( VAESs ) comprising feel good and life good enlightening snippets drawn from the mass media and from self-created ideas. A set of nine refreshing VAESs has been put forward with a pedagogical implication of setting a congenial scaffold to hone up the language skills (LSRW) of learners of ESL. Besides teaching language competency, the focal part of the paper is moral and motivational education that is primarily propagated through VAESs that sprawls around motivational and inspirational anecdotes that we witness in our day-to-day life. Thus this paper is a micro effort to notch up macro effect in teaching and learning English as a second language.

Keywords:

value added edutaining / enlightening snippets, congenial scaffold, motivational /inspirational anecdotes.

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