Need for a New Bridge Course in English

The English Teachers at the colleges are troubled by the poor language acquisition of students at the school level. In one of the viva voce exam an English lecturer expressed her inability to remedy some basic errors of students such as “Thanking God” instead of saying “Thank God”. The English text books at the level of under graduate courses do not cater to the needs of these students. As a result the students continue their poor communication skill throughout their life. They are very much afraid of being criticized by others. Neither do they know how to rectify these errors. The remedial course materials published by CIEFL, Hyderabad deals with only the grammatical aspect of Spoken English. Hence, there is a need for a new bridge course in English to improve the Spoken English of students to enable them to cope with the Spoken English syllabus of college and undergraduate students.