Attitude towards education must change
In the recent admission test results of University of Dhaka, a major portion of the students have failed in English even though most of them got A in HSC.
English classes in many schools are conducted by teachers of other subjects like chemistry, mathematics and even Bangla. Many coaching centers employ undergraduate students and IELTS takers as English teachers. Is it so easy to be an English teacher?
On another note, how can we expect the best performance from a teacher who only thinks of increasing the number of students in his batch? A teacher should not be allowed to privately tutor students of the institution where s/he works. However, we cannot stop them from doing so when we cannot provide them adequate salary compared to other professions, like with doctors or engineers.
To get the best outcome from our students, we must change our attitude towards the subject of English and our expectations from teachers.
Pradip Das
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