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Sunday, 19 July 2009

Psychological Tabular Method - a success story

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by Indeewara THILAKARATHNE

According to Dr. Ravindranath, the Sri Lankan academic domiciled in the US who
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had conducted extensive research on teaching of English, the Psychological Tabular Method is the quickest and most practical method of teaching English. The innovative method of teaching English has been successfully tried and tested in many countries including Japan. Following empirical research in the application of Psychological Tabular Method (PTM) for over three decades, the University of California, where Dr. Ravindranath is a lecturer, has endorsed this method of teaching as a logical methodology. For the first time, Dr.Ravindranath has introduced PTM to Sri Lanka as an elementary teaching method of English. Since the Government has declared this year as the Year of English and IT, it is of paramount importance to look into innovative methods of teaching and learning English in order to meet the growing demand for English Language teaching in Sri Lanka. Perhaps, the answer lies in the innovative teaching method of English which is termed "Psychological Tabular Method" in which fundamental structure of English is taught in terms of a well-researched set of tables. Once the student masters the Fundamentals or main table, he may be able to register them in mind which in turn helps him to acquire a command of the language. "What I do here is to put English language into tables. The tables are quickly registered in the mind in a similar manner you feed the computer with data.

Since they register in mind, you, first of all, get rid of fear of the language while enhancing your confidence. Once you master the tables, you will be able to acquire a command of the language. The tables or structures have been designed following extensive research on the behaviours of the mind. According to my findings, one may require only to master 48 structures in order to become a fluent speaker of English. For instance, in English, there are only 20 ways in which verbs can be conjugated. However, in Sinhala or Tamil verbs can be conjugated in 36 ways. Even though I have found this method of teaching a long time ago, I had no time to introduce this method to Sri Lanka. I have been in the US for many years. This time I came to Sri Lanka in response to President Mahinda Rajapaksa's appeal to academics to return to Sri Lanka and to contribute their expertise to the development process. Since I arrived in Sri Lanka at a time the country is facing a crisis in teaching English, I firmly believe this innovative method of teaching would be of immense value to the country," said Dr. Ravindranath, a true patriot in academic's garb. Dr. Ravindranath has already published several text books introducing Psychological Tabular Method to Sri Lanka. He is also willing to teach this innovative method of teaching English free of charge, either in a regular column in a newspaper or in a program on television or radio.

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