• Sanjay N. Shende

  Author

Numerous studies have been conducted in India and abroad on the impact of medium
of instruction (MI) on academic achievement as well as learning English as a second language.
But the researches reveal divided opinions on the issue. Apart from medium, there can be other
factors that play significant role in the teaching-learning process of English language. It aims to
study and compare attitude of English Medium (EM) and Non-English Medium (NEM) school
teachers towards English as a language and English language teaching (ELT) and to study
differences if any, in their attitude. To realize these objectives, a normative survey was
conducted with randomly selected fifty-six teachers, comprising 24 EM and 32 NEM school
teachers. The findings of the study suggest that EMS teachers have highly positive attitude
towards the profession and teaching English as a subject; whereas NEMS teachers are
moderately positive in this regard. The EMS teachers are favorably disposed with highly positive
attitude towards the learners, their abilities for learning English as well as their performance in
English language. But the NEMS teachers are moderately positive in this regard. Both the EM
and NEM teachers have favorable attitude towards importance of English language in general.

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