Phd proposal defense

1. E-POSTER
PRESENTATION
MPhild/Phd
By
Mrs R Poloogadoo

2. RESEARCH TITLE
“The problems and prospects
of teaching Telugu as a
second language in Mauritius”

3. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
• Telugu language is the ancestral language
of the Telugu people in Mauritius
• Not their mother tongue (L1)
• Taught as a second language
• very much less exposure to this language

4. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
• Optional subject – many parents and
students do not show much interest in this
subject
• Many students lack the necessary
proficiency and competence to
communicate effectively in Telugu

5. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
• There is a lack of facilities like
-teaching materials (textbooks)
-dictionaries
-well-furnished library
-exposure through the media
• All these might contribute to make TL
teaching difficult and challenging

6. AIMS OF THIS STUDY
• To highlight the strengths and weaknesses
of the teaching Telugu as a second
language in Mauritius
• To help teachers and students in their
endeavour

7. OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY
• To identify the difficulties that teachers
encounter in the teaching process
• To determine the learning difficulties of the
Telugu students
• To find solutions for these difficulties
• To investigate the methodology which is
being used to teach Telugu in Mauritius

8. THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS
• What are the problems that teachers face
while teaching Telugu?
• What are the problems that students face
while learning Telugu?
• What is the impact of these problems on
the teaching and learning process?

9. THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS
• How are these problems being met?
• What are the effective ways and means to
deal with these problems?
• What are the prospects of teaching Telugu
as a second language in Mauritius?

10. LITERATURE REVIEW
• Still reading and exploring the existing
works related to my research topics
• Come across other researches done in the
field of English, French
• Need to read more and review other works
on Telugu as a second language

11. METHODOLOGY
• The methods which I will use for my
research project are:
the qualitative approach
the quantitative approach

12. SAMPLING
• Purposive
• Target group
– the students of 8 secondary schools and
2 MGI colleges
All the secondary schools Telugu teachers 20

13. RESEARCH METHODS
• Survey method
• Documentary and content analysis - to
evaluate the Telugu textbooks

14. DATA COLLECTION TOOLS
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Interview
survey questionnaire
Observation
triangulation

15. DATA ANALYSIS
• The techniques to be used for managing
data are:
coding, annotating, labelling,
selection, summary

16. DATA INTERPRETATION
• In order to make sense of the data, charts,
graphs and concept maps will be used
• a critical friend will be consulted in order to
get other perspectives

17. FINDINGS
The findings will be discussed
The report will be written

18. EXPECTED OUTCOMES
• The findings of this research are intended
to make an original contribution to
research
• beneficial to teachers, students and other
stakeholders

19. EXPECTED OUTCOMES
• The problems/challenges that teachers
face while teaching Telugu will come to
light
• The findings will show the impact of these
problems/challenges on the teachers and
the students
• This research will reveal the effective ways
and means to deal with these
problems/challenges

20. TEACHERS
• Will come to know
whether the teaching
approaches they have
been using are
appropriate or not
• Understand their students
better
• Be able to plan learning
activities according to
their abilities, needs and
styles
• Be able to select
appropriate materials
• Will be in a better position
to apply better evaluation
techniques
• Motivated to teach Telugu

21. STUDENTS
• Will get well-equipped teachers
• Increase their motivation to learn Telugu
• Their language proficiency will increase
and will be able to express themselves
• Can expect good results

22. OTHER STAKEHOLDERS
• This study will inform the curriculum
planners about the needs of the Telugu
curriculum
• Inform the government and the NCCRD
about the need to design textbooks in
Telugu
• They will realize the importance of preservice training to develop teacher
competency and expertise

23. OTHER STAKEHOLDERS
• Organization of pedagogical club for
collegial sharing
• The Telugu socio-cultural institutions will
be more aggressive in their endeavour to
preserve and promote Telugu language
and culture
• Heads of school will provide a conducive
learning environment – producing good
quality results

24. CONCLUSION
• Telugu teaching is a challenge
• This is a small attempt on my part
-to find the problems in teaching Telugu in
Mauritius and
-provide possible suggestions to improve
the situation

25. THANK YOU