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PREDICAMENT OF RURAL STUDENTS IN LEARNING OF ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE

  • 1. Ph.D Scholar, Department of English, C. Abdul Hakeem College, Melvisharam, Vellore, Tamilnadu
  • 2. Associate Professor & Head, Department of English, C. Abdul Hakeem College, Melvisharam, Vellore, Tamilnadu

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Language is the instrument which can be helpful to share information with one another. In ancient time, people used gestures and symbols to transmit information. The symbols were written and spoken form in the following days. Thus, the language was developed with the help of each period. Many languages are created by human in different places of the world for communication. Today, nearly 6,500 languages are spoken by people all around the world. Among this, English language is considered to be the very important language by the majority of people. English language has a great impact on all fields because of that mass dominant language in the world. Especially it is an undeniable fact that English has a huge impact on education. In many countries, English is taught as a second language. Learning second language is a highly challenging for rural students in comparison to urban students. English language proficiency is negligible in rural students. There are many factors that make rural students lagging in the English language. This paper throws light on the obstacles caused to the rural students in learning English as a second language and the effective remedies to enhance their English language proficiency.

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