Teaching of Speaking Skills at Primary Level in Mardan

Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION

Progress and advancement of the countries of the world are always related with the kind of education they offer to their people .Generally education is the concern of Government and public in democratic countries. Pakistan is a democratic country and democracy cannot function with out education. Education is essential for human development. Modern age is the age of science and technology. Education gives people expertise and skills for different fields to keep them abreast with the changing realities of life. As “ A man without knowledge is really a blind even he has eyes. Educated man is as much superior to uneducated person. It nourishes us like mother, guides us like father and delights us like wife”(Ahmad, 1969).

The development of education depends on the language that is unique tool granted to human beings for communication. It is one of the gifts, gifted by Allah to distinguish mankind from animal. Therefore development of civilization and education depends upon the growth and use of language. Today we know that the whole world has changed to a global village. Every country and nation of this global village has direct or indirect relation with each other in sphere of education, trade, commerce and health e.g. but there is a great problem of the medium of communication for the people of the world. At present we see that English is the only international communication medium for the people of this global village.

It is evident that the position of English in Pakistan is vitally important. As
Quaid-e-Azam declared in the first education conference that Urdu will be the official language, but he never ignored the importance of English. According to him “As regard English, while the injurious effects of making an alien language medium of instruction has been widely recognised, it must, for some considerable time to come, retrain its pride of place both in the sphere of our university

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