REMEDIAL TEACHING

Outcome objectives
By the end of the session teachers will: • Recognise the signs of poor/under performance students . • Be familiar with the reasons that stand behind getting students to be slow achievers. • Identify what is meant by remedial teaching. • Be acquainted with the objectives and the importance of remedial teaching . • Be aware of the teachers' roles in remedial teaching . • Be able to build up remedial plan similar to the suggested model. • Recognize what is meant by the diagnostic test and its significance. • Be able to frame a diagnostic test .

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Since learning as a whole is a complex activity, it is more complex in case of English because it is a foreign language. It involves many skills like comprehension speaking, reading and writing. These skills, moreover, consist of many sub skills. As a matter of fact, learning of English is a continuous process i.e. learning and mastering of one structural item serves as the foundation for further learning. Therefore, each step of learning should be strong and long lasting. But as time passes, some gaps are created in the learning. Because of the law of negligence , or because some concepts are not correctly and fully understood, students tend to forget some learning. . All these drawbacks create obstacles in the process of future learning and it is harmfully affected. The causes of their underachievement should be detected and they should be set right with the help of correctives for this very purpose, the practices of diagnostic testing and remedial teaching should have been introduced to them without delay .

CONCEPT OF REMEDIAL TEACHING
In medicine affording a remedy is to cure, or to treat . To remedy’ means to cure against a defect . But with reference to education field , it is an instructional reformation to students who are slower at learning than others and have deficiency in their performance .. Therefore, remedial teaching is providing instructional correction . It is a process of filling in the gaps in the previous learning, a