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ASSESSMENT PRACTICES AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL IN ANDHRA PRADESH: ISSUES AND CONCERN - PERSPECTIVES OF PRACTICING TEACHERS

Anita Abraham

Volume: 2 Issue: 1 2012

Abstract:

Practicing Undergraduate Teachers of English in the 179 Government Degree College across the State of Andhra Pradesh collectively desire that the Communicative Competence of the students should improve. The Year I Integrated English Curriculum introduced in the State during the academic year 2005-2006 and the Year II Integrated English Curriculum introduced this academic year, 2006-2007, are welcome charges. The modified Curriculum facilitates the language use of the students in all four skills-Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing.

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