• Jayakumar K
• Senthil CS

India as a nation is looking towards harnessing the demographic dividend available with it by virtue of a vast majority of its population within the most productive age group. The government, in addition, has a colossal responsibility of providing career opportunities to this mammoth population by up-skilling 150 million people. Providing education and developing appropriate skills for this mammoth population are no mean task. And one of the most challenging and most rewarding skills that the population needs to empower themselves with employable skills is the English language skills. English language has occupied an indomitable role in the Indian society due to its proximity with career opportunities and the notion of social pride. And the level of English language competence is primarily based on the level of language teaching and learning, and the attraction or aversion to learn the language that is inculcated during the schooling age of the learners. Hence there is a need for a rather sound understanding on the part of the stakeholders, especially the teachers who are still considered the knowledge givers, on what and how the teaching / learning should happen. At this juncture, it is also important that the language teachers have the necessary competence to impart the language training to the learners. This need again necessitates a framework of competence for language teachers, on which they can be assessed either during the recruitment or during their service. Unfortunately, no such frameworks exist specifically for the language teachers in India, let alone Tamil Nadu, where the English language learning is markedly different from that of the other parts of the world. This paper attempts an exploratory study of the impact of a couple of widely popular language teacher frameworks available globally and tries to assess whether similar framework will be fruitful in improving standards of English language learning in the context of Tamil Nadu, where the authors of this paper normally live.

Teacher Assessment, Language Teacher Performance Assessment, Teacher Assessment Framework, Teacher Education, English Language Teaching, Language Assessment, Language Testing, Teacher Education

"Need for English Language Teacher Assessment Framework in Tamil Nadu Schools", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.510-515, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807675.pdf

"Need for English Language Teacher Assessment Framework in Tamil Nadu Schools", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp510-515, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807675.pdf