A language learner has the choice of language
elements such as sounds, spellings, grammatical patterns – which
are significant for languages, dialects, styles, or other varieties of
languages which together define a language. The regular choices
made by an individual speaker is on the basis of patterns
established in the speech community or communities of which
they are members of. Aspects of language (Saussure 1931), is
essentially a social phenomenon, dependent on the consensual
behaviors and beliefs of individual members of a speech
community. The aim is to ascertain the choices of individual
speakers in terms of patterns related to Tenses through
grammatical items, spellings and different styles. A survey was
conducted in Bolpur High School in Shantiniketan, West Bengal.
Primary data was collected in the form of written essays in the
three Tenses. Secondary data was collected from other websites.
Dr. Madhumita Banerjee : Doctorate in English Linguistics, IELTS qualified from British
council, with 19 years in the education line as faculty / Trainer.
Presently serving as an Independent Management Consultant. A
visiting faculty for Management Institutes teaching M.B.A students.
I teach Communications, soft skills, Principles and Practices of
Management, Organisational Behaviour, Strategic Management
and conduct corporate trainings in Business English. I have to my
credit earlier two International publications in Applied Linguistics
ISSN: 2250-3005 and ISSN; 2319-183 X and one Domestic
publication ISBN; 2319-1821
Individual Speaker
Choices
Markers
Social
Phenomenon
Communities
Language
The Bengali EFL students displayed ease of use of the
correct form of the verbs in their essay writing in Present
Tense. Maximum struggle in the use of verbs in the Past
Tense, followed by future Tense. The acquisition of L2 by
Bengali EFL students is hampered by the fact that the
second language is taught as a subject matter rather than a
communication mode. And language acquisition should be
used more as a communication subject.
