International Journal of Academic Pedagogical Research (IJAPR)
  Year: 2022 | Volume: 6 | Issue: 2 | Page No.: 62-66
Essential English knowledge every Tamil speaking bilingual teacher in Sri Lanka should know Download PDF
SMBM Arshad

Abstract:
Bilingual Education (BE) in Sri Lanka has already taken its phase to be rewarded as the best education system for it enables learners to acquire subject knowledge in English and parallel to it,gain fluency in English language. BEfurther enables leaners to continue their higher education from a ranking university and be better employed. Undoubtedly, teacher of BE should be capable of English for they have to communicate explicitly in both verbal and written. In this research, having given an introduction to the topic started exploring the important areas like pronunciation, contraction in speech, word order and sentences, vocabulary, meaning of the word, word class, verb forms, word trees, other information related learning vocabulary and teaching collocation in the way best elaborate to the teachers. Conclusion of this research is drawn from literature produced particularly in the subject area and based on observations. I gave importance to a number topics that worth paying urgent attention for BE teacher at the present time have an urgent need to cram for it.