The professional development of the researcher
I always appreciate teaching through activities as it is meaningful. For instance, if
students can use the target language (the language one needs to teach/learn) when they
are playing acquisition of language takes place. In another word language is internalized
without an effort. Therefore, I make use of language activities and games in my day to
day work by means of prepared cards of sentence patterns. The wonder is that not only
students but also teachers like this. For instance, recently I had to do a seminar on
Writing in English
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Activity Based Oral English (ABOE) for a set of primary teachers in my division. There
too I used some activities. At the end I collected the teachers’ responses anonymously. I
asked them to response in Sinhala, Tamil, or English. One had written “Romba Nallam”
in Tamil. Some had wrote in Sinhala and a few in English.