The Problems faced by Non-native English Learners and The Remedies

Abstract

English language learning has become a challenging task for non – native speakers. A country like India has been making apt efforts to encourage English language among students as well as business people. In India English has established its own value as English is used commonly onthe internet, social media and websites, higher education institutions as well as research centers. Almost all the spheres of knowledge have the English as the medium, so, it becomes inevitable to learn the English language either for the lively hood or for the decency. English language learning has always been proved meticulous and lengthier process.
English has been taught as the compulsory subject in schools and colleges, but the result is not so satisfying. Grammar has been taught at the initial stage of learning English language which proves to be the greatest hurdle in acquiring the fluency in the language.As the fear of speaking or writing wrong English has so much rooted in the minds of students that they do not initiate at all and English language remains alien to them.
English speaking for non-native speaker is complex due to various reasons. Colloquialism, Communicative Competence and Word power are chief among them. English language learning basically needs four skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
The present article tries to highlight the major difficulties faced by non- native learners in learning English as well as to simplify English language learning by providing useful guidance to improve all the four skills.