Assessment of reading skills is a very complex task and to reliably perform it at a mass level is next to impossible. And assessment of reading with respect to any set of ‘microskills’ is also ruled out. Reading is an intensely cognitive process and it is widely agreed that we can best measure the ‘general […]
Read more >All children are expected to effortlessly develop speech and language skills. Learning to speak a language is something that does not require much by itself and is highly co-related to the characteristics of the environment in which children learn to communicate.In general, a child’s social background is very relevant. To be specific, the ‘quality of […]
Read more >Estonia opens its digital borders Estonia has invited people to register as e-residents – a step towards a world where a person’s identity online matters just as much as their identity offline ESTONIA flung open its digital borders last week. The eastern European country invited anyone, anywhere, to open a bank account or start a […]
Read more >In second-language education (e.g. English for children in India), Munby’s taxonomy of microskills can be applied and he distinguishes the following reading ‘microskills’: Recognising the script of a language Deducing the meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items Understanding explicitly stated information Understanding information when not explicitly stated Understanding conceptual meaning Understanding the communicative value […]
Read more >Language is one of the greatest human inventions. We created language to empower ourselves to share our heart and mind and reciprocate as others do the same. Language helped us improve survival skills and organise efforts among big group of people. Language gave words to our imaginations and helped create a world of stories, the […]
Read more >The New digital Age (Book excerpt from The New digital Age by Schmidt Eric and Cohen Jared) “Identity will be the most valuable commodity for citizens in the future, and it will exist primarily online. Online experience will start with birth, or even earlier. Periods of people’s lives will be frozen in time, and easily […]
Read more >Technology will win future elections David Plouffe, President Obama’s top political and campaign strategist and the mastermind behind the winning 2008 and 2012 campaigns, wrote in a forward looking op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that future campaigns will increasingly be fought out on mobile devices as much as television and computers. He cited, how […]
Read more >It makes better sense to discuss this question directly with parents. The discussion that follows could be directly shared with parents, without any need to edit.The only one natural way to learn a language is to listen to it over and over again in daily routine; think of the way you learnt your mother-tongue. English […]
Read more >Learning to read lies outside the original repertoire of the human brain’s functions and requires a whole new circuit to be built afresh for every new reader.Reading transforms the human brain, which transforms the mind, which, in turn, transforms the life of the reader. Literally and physiologically, there is no genetic blueprint for reading – […]
Read more >How did you learn your mother-tongue? Almost magically! Just hearing your mother (and others in the family and neighbourhood) talking to you and others. To be true, no special effort is needed to learn one’s mother-tongue; merely hearing a language all the time is a necessary condition to learn it. The other part, the sufficiency […]
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