English tutors

Many English tutors do not really want to get their students to speak in the target language in their so called 'Spoken English’ classes.

Everybody is aware that students are charged high tuition fees by those tutors. But how many of these students are able to utter a few words in English?

As an experienced teacher of English working at a State school, I have carefully checked and found that only a very few tutors get their learners to speak a few words in English in their classes, although hundreds of 'spoken English' classes are conducted in Kalutara and the suburbs.

What these tuition masters do is that, nicely designed 'lesson notes' are distributed in very attractively printed file covers among the students. The poor students do not know that they have been taken for a ride by their tuition master. Is this what's called teaching of English? What's the use of having a file cover unless the students are made to express themselves? How can students learn to speak with the teacher in these heavily-crowded jam-packed classes of English?

I will never accept that a successful teaching-learning process takes place in these popular English classes. Those beautiful file covers or dictionaries given free of charge do not serve any purpose in learning English.