Question

Learners lack confidence to speak in the target language in class where the main language of conversation is the local vernacular. This challenge can be met by
1. allowing students to speak about whatever they can, irrespective of the grammatical errors, enhance their vocabulary and gradually make corrections
2. allowing students to watch English films as motivation, practice a drill consisting of useful sentences and vocabulary with regular correction of grammatical errors
3. insisting on student's using only the target language irrespective of the grammatical errors, enhance their vocabulary, with regular feedback on their performance
4. instructing them to speak slowly and self-correct grammatical errors, enhance their vocabulary with a list of useful words

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : allowing students to speak about whatever they can, irrespective of the grammatical errors, enhance their vocabulary and gradually make corrections

A multilingual classroom refers to the classroom where the pupils speak various languages. It is constitutive of the identity of a child and a typical feature of the Indian linguistic landscape must be used as a resource, classroom strategy, and a goal by a creative language teacher.

• Multilingual classrooms are considered the biggest challenge for English language teachers and students not only in India but also in other parts of the world.
• The teachers and the students face a number of problems due to the different local languages spoken by the students in the classrooms.
• Multilingual classrooms are not easy to handle and sometimes it becomes very difficult for the English teachers to cope with the challenges.  
• The above-mentioned challenge can be met by allowing students to speak about whatever they can, irrespective of the grammatical errors, enhance their vocabulary and gradually make corrections.
• It will boost up their confidence to the same level where they will be as comfortable in the target language as they are in their vernacular language. It will make them work at their own ease and time.

Hence, it could be concluded that the above-mentioned challenge can be met by allowing students to speak about whatever they can, irrespective of the grammatical errors, enhance their vocabulary and gradually make corrections.