Creating Awareness and Importance of ‘English’ For Students Hailing From Rural Areas

Abstract

The ever-growing need for good communication skills in English creates a huge demand for English learning/teaching around the world. People’s participation in dialogue of cultures requires communication and contributes to the total holistic formation of the human person. English education is the need of the hour and a powerful instrument of economic, social and cultural change. In underdeveloped countries like India, the progress of rural areas is questioned, because of unequal or lack of access to quality education. Poverty and illiteracy remain overwhelmingly a rural phenomena and poverty in rural areas is linked to illiteracy. Therefore development in rural areas faces a key challenge to achieve both poverty reduction and ‘Education for All’. Quality of education depends on infrastructure such as classrooms, sanitation facilities, provision for digital learning, sports equipment facilities, professional competencies of teachers, access to books and learning materials, So the article is a discussion on the importance and creating awareness of English education for students hailing from rural areas since it is the powerful instrument of economic, social and cultural change.