Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the television channels can
make sensible influence in improving the English knowledge among the children
in the country. Fluency in a second language is of course not an easy task, but
not an impossible task as well. Teaching methodologies and techniques need to
be modernised and lacking of such will cause the difficulty in improving the task.
Further the starting age of studies is also a reason for the issue and those two
reasons have become the significant reason for the drawback of the second
language among the children. According to the recent researches, it is found that
language proficiency of a child is highly improved between the ages of2-4 years
and therefore, it is possible to teach both mother tongue and the second language
to the child during that age, the proficiency of both languages could be optimised.
This study concern the possibility of doing such improvement assuming that
television channel could be done the same in successful manner. But
unfortunately still such influencing study channel is not being performed in Sri
Lanka. But, such channels are very popular in most of the countries and those
international charmels are being telecasting in locally too. The expected progress
oflanguage proficiency could be compare with the children who do follow such
channels and who do not follow the charmels. Further, they could be interview
and also could be observed the day to day activities usage of vocabulary and the
way of communication among them in order to compare with the progress. The
final objective is the proficiency or improvement of children in commanding the
second language among themselves through television charmel.
