It will be sufficient to quote Dr Krishna Kumar from his handbook–‘The child’s language and the teacher’ (published by NBT): Of all the challenges that teachers of young children must face, the challenge of introducing children to reading is perhaps the most difficult as well as the most exciting. No teacher needs to be reminded […]
It makes better sense to discuss this question with parents. The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit. There is a good news here. Reading as a skill is fairly independent of the language of reading! In other words, reading is a highly transferable skill across languages; a good […]
Iit makes better sense to discuss this question with parents.The discussion that follows could be shared with parents, without any need to edit.Let us recapitulate how we learnt our mother-tongue – by listening! Truly, there is only one simple way to learn a language – listening. And why do we see disparity in the use […]
The quantity and quality of vocabulary at the command of a person greatly influences her ability to comprehend and analyse knowledge. In fact, the irony is that in our attempt to explain a ‘more complex’ concept in ‘a simpler language’ we only make it more complicated for the ones poorer in the language. For example, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is a very important question. If we can figure out the relationship between intelligence and language, we can connect language and learning. Putting it another way, did humans take bigger leaps of progress with the invention of language? Yes, we did and all the evidences point towards it. We did not have any real […]
