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Worried that your children are not fluent in their mother tongue? The government may soon be considering a proposal that would require all schools to teach primary classes, in the mother tongue.
And if you are worried that your kids will not be learning English, rest assured. The schools will be teaching English as a subject in the early years.
The suggestion is given by a sub-committee of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) as part of their proposed free and compulsory education bill. If accepted as part of the bill, all schools across the country government and private will have to move to a mother-tongue-based teaching during the formative years.
In fact, several reputed schools in the capital, Sardar Patel Vidyalaya for instance, have been following this system for years. For the first four years, students are taught in Hindi while English is just another subject.
According to Ms Kusum Warikoo, the principal of Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, such a plan could work wonders for the children. Communicating in the mother tongue lends for happier and more confident children. Speaking in the mother tongue comes naturally to kids, they dont have to think in an alien language before they communicate. Besides which at an early age children have a much larger capacity of learning languages, she says.
The question, however, is which Indian language will be the medium of instruction in schools where there is no clear dominant linguistic group. The sub-committee has proposed that the mother tongue of the largest number of children will be the language of instruction. Additional provisions will have to be made for instruction through other Indian languages as well.
This is perhaps where the proposal runs out of steam. Experts feel that such a situation could lead to a fragmentation of the class, and even if such a situation were acceptable, it would not be viable option in majority of schools.
The proposal is bound to face stiff resistance. Experts say that schools would have apprehensions about whether such a system would work. Given that till date, an English-medium school label is considered an important selling point for schools and a requirement for parents, resistance to erode this system is likely to be strong.
It wouldnt just the schools, which may oppose this move. Parents would be worried if their children would have adequate grasp of the English language, if their early education is in an Indian language
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