The Curious Case of Five Vowel

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The Curious Case Of Five Vowels: Are We Teaching Language Right? [pic] Comic Scenario Or Tragedy? It is a fact well acknowledged that the Pakistani parents having a good fortune would prefer to get their kids admitted into best institutions affordable for the sake of quality education due to fact that English has developed to be the lingua-franca of the modern era which cannot be neglected and for which reason they choose institutions with English necessarily as the medium of education. The question is that are we teaching the language right? Are we making the children creative? Are we actually teaching them to develop their linguistic capabilities? Or are we just making some poorly bilingual translators by teaching them traditional-grammar and tenses through grammar-translation method in our schools? It is to be kept in view that most the students, even the freshmen who may graduate college at anytime may not know the linguistic concepts as simple as ‘vowels’ let alone the correct pronunciation of words and fluency. Upon asking a student, the answer would doubtlessly be, “it’s so simple they are five in number a e i o u”. Most of them, except the ones pursuing a major in linguistics, will die claiming the fact that there are five. And that’s true. Now trust me, vowels may get seriously angry on that and they’d be justified in their view as they are nineteen in number with twelve monophthongs and seven diphthongs. Moreover, it’s not just the vowels which may get aggressive but grammar too will be pissed off because of the mistakes like using ‘the’ before the proper nouns and claiming sheeps and fishes as the plurals of sheep and fish. [pic] The Problem: The dilemma of our society is that on one hand we have a yearn for our children to learn English and to be able to speak it with remarkable fluency, and we do take that as a symbol of
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