[lg policy] Native Tongue Should Be Included In Early Schooling: Academics

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Native Tongue Should Be Included In Early Schooling: Academics A child's
native tongue should not be given a short shrift during his or her
pre-primary years as local language is the most important tool for
understanding basic concepts in that period, an academic said on Thursday.
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Native Tongue Should Be Included In Early Schooling: Academics
*New Delhi: * A child's native tongue should not be given a short shrift
during his or her pre-primary years as local language is the most important
tool for understanding basic concepts in that period, an academic said on
Thursday. Sunita Singh, Director of Childhood Education Centre at the
Ambedkar University, made the point on the first day of a two-day national
conference on 'early language and literacy', organised by the Centre for
Early Childhood Education and Development (CECED) in collaboration with
Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

"We think that language literacy should find some space in the policy...
Languages early in the age should be taught meaningfully. Children should
be able to connect," she said.

Other speakers also advocated for multilingual teaching during the early
years of a child and for a major policy change in favour of the inclusion
of local language texts.

Speaking to IANS later, Sunita Singh stressed that the current method of
teaching involves rote learning in which children merely mug up texts
without understanding much, which needs to change.

"Mother tongue is important for any children for the clarification of basic
concepts of things. By the time a child goes to school, he already starts
speaking his mother tongue and refers to objects in that language. Now, if
we suddenly ask the child to drop that language and impose two alien
languages... it would be a great injustice," she said.

She maintained that English and Hindi should hold the position they do
presently in the teaching of the curriculum, but "local languages should
also be respected".

 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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