• K.Yugandhar

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In this era of curriculum reforms to include e-learning in English Language Teaching, there is a need to address methods and strategies that help learners of all abilities. Now, in these days of digitalization every student can be included in open-ended activities as everyone is provided with the opportunities of browsing the Internet by the helping hand of Technology. Teachers can interlace web-based material with the language elements through open-ended activities. In this context of differentiated curriculum the focus of the paper is twofold: (i) to illuminate the larger 
issue of how open-ended activities provide curricular differentiation in English class and (ii) to explore ways in which open-ended activities were put into practice in web-enabled e-class. 
The paper discusses about the conceptions of open-ended activities. Then discussion spotlights the role of the activities in mixed-ability classes and it culminates by a few guidelines that help 
in designing the activities. It concludes with a wish that the syllabus is negotiated between learners and the teacher with - self-instruction, self-direction and individualization. Thus open
ended activities involve acquiring methodological and conceptual competence as well as the development of cognitive and meta-cognitive skills. 

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