THE CHALLENGES OF TEACHING-LEARNING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN MULTICULTURAL CONTEXT IN INDIA

This paper presents the challenges of teaching English in multicultural context in India. Teaching English to the Indian students is the biggest challenge. Though enough awareness is prevailing among the students, parents and society, the majority of our students struggle a lot to acquire the language.It presents a brief history teaching English in India. It highlights factors of teachinglearning of English language in the multicultural context in India.There is an urgent need to teach English language in order to communicate outside our own language group for any practical purpose like business, tourism, cultural exchange, administration and social work. The increasing awareness of importance of English in the present moment demands to learn the language for special and specific purposes and for widening our intellectual horizon.