Teaching good and effective communication skills to learners is really important
to teachers in their delivery of pedagogy, classroom management and
interaction with the class. In a multilingual and multi-cultural country like India,
teachers struggle with decisions about the variety of English to use, the standard
quality of their English, their English language proficiency and the effectiveness
of their communication skills. This study evaluates ELT trainers’ ideology of
their communicative strengths and weaknesses as reflected in their class room
teachings and their views on language teaching. The facts and figures that are
incorporated in this study are vital to the understanding of teacher education in
multilingual and multicultural societies. Teaching is generally considered as
only fifty percent knowledge and fifty percent interpersonal or communication
skills. For a teacher, it is not just important to give a quality lecture but it is more
important to give the presentation of a lesson or lecture well in class.
Communication skills for teachers are thus as important as their in-depth
knowledge of the particular subject which they teach.