discourse oriented approach

when I was a school going student, I had been taught English in a bad way. what i meant to say is that till I reached 10 th standard, i couldn't understand how to attempt the second paper in English. In case of the first paper some how I managed, because of my memory power. I used to byheart the question and answers, meaning of the words, singulars, plurals,opposit words etc. And I used to make byheart the English compostitions such as leave letters etc. Even then developing the outlines into a story was a himalayan task for me. Why to say much, i didn't even know the task was to develop the out line into a meaningful story.
But when i passed to 10th fortuanately i got a verygood English teacher. His name is K.P.Sivasankaran. He is the first teacher who gave some practices in developing the story, and in writing letters with different matters etc. He explained the tragic childhood of oliver twist though it was in transalation method. but he is a good performer of narrative, we pupil felt an empathy with oliver. and we saw the narrow streets of London, the vicioius eyes of Fagin the jew, Nancy, Brownlaw, Agnus the charectors of the novel in our inner eyes. and we saw the head of peirry cury[ madom curie's husband]rolled down on the road who was killed by an accident on the street.In short he is the teacher who inspired me to learn english with interest. He is the one who teaches us how to appreciate a story in english.

But what I wants to say is that about the discourse oriented paradigm. when i came to the teaching profession the things had been changed. The new approach gave much courage for us to speak, and write to express our ideas in English without fearing the 'grammer monster'.

and it opend the door which leads to the beauty of EnglishLanguage.we the practicing teachers' community sincearly thanking our Anandan sir who is the Appelate of this approach.we also get selfconfidence to construct various discourses.