ARE STYLES RELEVANT FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING?
I do recognize that the teaching of styles through literature does not give the learners the kind of vocabulary and structure they really need in their day-to-day use of the target language. However, there is little doubt that extensive exposure to the different styles of the language facilitates the transfer to a more active form of knowledge. The language of the literature may not be typical of the language of daily life. But the variety of lexical devices, syntactic patterns, etc., to which the learners are exposed through the teaching of the styles, definitely have a bearing on the development of higher language competence. 11. HOW DO WE DEFINE TEACHING OF STYLES? I would suggest the following points for consideration: • Teaching style is not teaching the forms (words, etc.). • Teaching style is not teaching rhetoric. • Teaching style is not teaching content organization. • Teaching style is not teaching even the manner of presentation. • Teaching style in Indian language classroom
