PEDAGOGIC FALLACIES, PROBLEMS IN TEACHING L2 ANDSUGGESTED SOLUTIONS

Abstract

The paper gauges the tutorial practices and arrives at a certain fallacies
committed by the teachers known as ‘Pedagogic fallacies’. Fallacies are the practices
commonly followed by the pedagogic community in the period of the Pre Independent
period when English was taught as a language of correspondence and a Library
language. That was a period when English was meant for the study of literature so as to
propagate English culture. Now that the language has transformed into an international
medium it has to be utilized as a language used for specific purposes. It is natural to
absolutely revamp the methods of teaching in the status of Second Language (L2) in
Indian context. They make English a difficult language. The presentation lists out such
fallacies and the problems that follow. The solution to the problems are furnished in the
paper while a suggested management of easy, precise and short way of teaching /
learning of English through Functional Grammar based on structural Method in order
to ease the burden of too many definitions and rules to be recorded which will frighten
the learner.