2 0 obj 18 Dutcher, N. 2003. Swarup suggested trying an MLE model out in some schools across the country for about three-four years, identifying the problems in implementation and the cost of change and then preparing an action plan that resolves these problems. The implementation of the Namibian language policy in education: Lower primary grades and pre-service teacher education Report on language policy research compiled by Karsten Legère, Richard Trewby and Mariana van Graan October 2000 “Hopefully as a result of this policy, things will change but saying that we want the medium of instruction to be the mother-tongue is only the first step. The Eastern Cape education department has pioneered the implementation of Mother Tongue Based Bilingual Education (MTBBE) and wants other provinces to use it to replicate the success of the programme. It also suggests incentives for teachers who know local languages especially in areas with high dropout rates and an overhaul of the curriculum to make it more engaging and useful. Kuper (2003) reports that in 22 out of 39 African countries primary education still uses 潭�H�J��&=�j�imjP��HUB��a��De�T呂�*l�Qa�+�As�RLjYL#�q곶W�y��o�R宦뇟}em���쟈xN�鞍�.RU�욉��Az�~`9a�?��(�B좨8M�)b둘qk6?wxS�Gx��u�T�컴킷�ju�沈�V�:璃퀸j⒬캣y�갬H�H�*�ou嘲괠�����坡�¶�Nt�g@5 d%㉵g�S' �.鄂&D;RQyu` 4W邦}솬瞥N7��Ja� ����id¶o3늚x�� �c��L℉�$���"A�%幷�,�2(��선’5JR�=s��V�W�嵋��l補�&;_cb�O��_衆�C� ���A�][誤 _w��|淚 � One example is the Roshini programme in Kerala through which migrant children, who usually fall behind in school partly because of the different medium of instruction, learn Malayalam through the use of multiple languages including the child’s mother-tongue, as we reported in August 2019. Parents prefer to send their children to ‘English-medium’ schools regardless of the quality of education they offer because of the perception that mastery of the English language ensures success in later life. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 18 0 R 19 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 496.08 680.4] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> He cited some examples of areas where children speak one language at home but are taught in another in school -- Marathi-speaking children on Maharashtra’s border with Madhya Pradesh, Telugu-speaking children in Odisha along the edges of Andhra Pradesh, or the children of Bihari migrants in West Bengal. The question of mother-tongue education in South Africa remains a vexed one. %도도 <>/Metadata 336 0 R/ViewerPreferences 337 0 R>> Mother tongue education (MTE) has been a subject of rigorous debate for more than half a century, in both industrialised and developing societies. Topics In addressing the challenges of finding a balance between mother tongue and standard English education, Carol Bloch from Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa argues that “unless conditions are appropriate, it is very difficult to learn a foreign language well enough to learn through it.” Language education should be seen as multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary with a complex range of theories behind different teaching approaches. It would also require teachers trained to teach in a multilingual classroom and new teachers fluent in these languages. Mother Tongue Language exemption in Singapore primary schools. If you are taught in a language you don’t understand then comprehension doesn’t occur and results in rote memorisation and writing it out through copying,” explained Dhir Jhingran, a former Indian Administrative Services officer and the founder of Language and Learning Foundation, an organisation working with state governments in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Haryana to prepare study material in the local language and train teachers to use it. If schooling in the mother tongue is only seen in opposition to teaching in English and the state language is prioritised, then these children who should have benefited from being taught in their home language will lose out, Singh pointed out. 1. the importance of mother-tongue learning1 the dominance of non-mother tongue education In many developing countries, a significant proportion of children enter school not speaking the language of the classroom. “All over the country you have such languages… It would not take a lot of investment to make a change like this,” he said. The regional language should be taught separately and should become the medium of instruction by the third year. While This is, of course, one of the reasons why bilingual education systems are growing in popularity around the world and many international schools are focusing their resources on establishing strong mother tongue programmes. Another challenge is selecting which mother tongues become the medium of instruction in a school and which do not. As per the NEP, the aim of using regional languages is not just to improve a child’s learning outcomes, but also for “instilling knowledge of India”. countries, which finds instruction in mother tongue to be correlated with higher school enrolment and attendance. That is how it should be,” said Anil Swarup, former school education secretary in the central government. By this metric about 72% of primary school students had the same medium of instruction in school as their home language but this would still not mean that the child was being taught in school in a familiar language. The use of mother tongue enhances cognitive development of a child. India has several languages--the 2011 census identified 270 mother tongues--and classrooms might have children with more than one spoken language. The NEP makes no mention of how this change in the medium of instruction is to be funded. They want English which they think will take their children ahead in life,” said Bhattarcharjea of ASER, noting that there might be resistance from communities in changing the medium of instruction. But teaching in the mother tongue is not a silver bullet to solve the problem of low learning outcomes, cautioned Suman Bhattacharjea, the director of ASER Centre. This is a bigger challenge in areas that have seen ethnic violence in the past, she said. “All efforts will be made early on to ensure that any gaps that exist between the language spoken by the child and the medium of teaching are bridged,” the NEP says. Many education systems favour using national or ‘global’ languages instead of mother-tongue teaching. 6.4 Inadequacy of trained teachers in mother tongue 260 6.5 Learning and teaching materials as challenges to mother-tongue education 265 6.6 Poor standardisation of a language as a barrier to mother-tongue education 268 6.7 Poor school improvement practice to promote mother-tongue education … “When these changes were made we’ve seen these silent classrooms convert in 2-3 months -- [full of] active, engaged children speaking, interacting,” said Jhingran. Still, half of all children in low and middle-income countries are not taught in a language they speak, estimated a 2016 report from the Education Commission, a global initiative for inclusive and quality education. If schools teach in local languages, families too can be involved in their child's education, said Parismita Singh, who works with a Pratham after-school programme that provides support to children in their mother tongue in tribal and non-tribal rural areas in Assam’s Kokrajhar and Chirang. Community members can also be hired as teachers as they are fluent in the local language. To strengthen this, the Department of Education (DepEd) has implemented the use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction (DepEd order No. service teachers, teacher education training program, mother tongue instruction, curricular alignment 1. endobj Your encouragement and constant feedback on how to improve our offering have only made our resolve and commitment to these ideals stronger. And in case of languages that can easily be used as mediums of instruction but are not. (Khaitan is a writer/editor with IndiaSpend.). The idea of using the mother tongue as the medium of instruction in primary school is not new to the Indian education system. For instance, a qualitative study on the implementation of MLE in Sundargarh, Odisha, found that schools would not prioritise hiring MLE teachers and children were still reluctant to accept that they spoke a different language at home, perhaps because of the perception that Odia was the superior language. The National Education Policy (NEP) approved by the Union Cabinet on July 29, 2020, says that wherever possible the medium of instruction in schools until Grade V -- preferably until Grade VIII -- should be the mother tongue or the local or regional language. Evidence from Guatemala, for instance, shows that children in bilingual classes, which includes one of the Mayan languages as the medium of instruction in primary school, perform better on Spanish language tests than those in Spanish-only schools. Education is often carried Promise and Perils of Mother Tongue Education. We reserve the right to edit responses for language and grammar. Local and international research has found that children learn to speak, read, and write more quickly in their first language, and can pick up a second and third language more easily if taught in their first language. We believe in free, fair and credible journalism. “There will be innumerable problems in the implementation of this policy but they are not insurmountable,” said Swarup, the former school secretary, highlighting the lack of an action plan in the NEP to implement this or any other policy change. For multilingual education (MLE) to be successful, it has to be accompanied by pedagogical changes and trained teachers who can deal with several languages in the classroom and teach in the child’s mother tongue, Bhattacharjea said. So this article focusses on Mother Tongue Language exemption in Singapore primary schools, who is eligible for it, and how to apply. Please write to respond@indiaspend.org. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics Mother Tongue-Based Instruction The learning programme is delivered entirely in children’s L1 This programme convinced migrants to stay back in Ernakulam district during the lockdown because parents did not want their children to lose out on school, we reported in July 2020. ��5LUy�r們�� The purpose of this study was to investigate factors affecting teaching and learning in mother tongue in lower public primary schools in Kenya. The Chomsky’s theory … 1 0 obj However, the Philippines is the only country in Southeast Asia to have instituted a national policy requiring mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) in the primary school years. However, studies show that almost 40 per cent of children do not have access to an education in a language they understand and this is negatively affecting their learning (UNESCO, 2016). “If this language is understood only from the point of national integration, that makes me wary of how you will define it,” said Singh. The initial investment in bilingual programmes can be high because of the additional cost of developing new learning material especially for languages that have not been standardised or do not have a script, experts said. The report of the Kothari Commission on education and national development (1964-66) suggested that in tribal areas, for the first two years of school, the medium of instruction and books should be in the local tribal language. “Language is extremely political,” said Singh of Pratham. Evidence from Guatemala and Senegal in 1999 estimated that producing local language material would cost about 1% of the education budget with decreasing investment as time passes. The NEP does not detail a plan to change the medium of instruction. Business Standard has always strived hard to provide up-to-date information and commentary on developments that are of interest to you and have wider political and economic implications for the country and the world. This is very important especially in areas where she works, where many languages have non-standardised scripts that are not accepted by everyone in the community. Now, more than one school year after the start of its implementation, what have we learned from this program? C쇔X畢者腱輔冷-� �I?waV�8{枋�RF%┛5� �'J(�va�MGHKMΖ����O�a��0�lz�チ�녀���樣探鏞秘�MlF���@冪룀 �b�z,|�N� �hL�\超C軀Ve �n8p�G[8)K ��y���#邦�臺-�AΑ링e�m�E�爭�Jm���檻4.O�LN�h�*�'�3�N�f)簿�S륩艱K쐈gW#w�:5d�m��IL�+D�e>��e3�d�h�l漲����S���; 灐s��>訝潺�a�n象�n(_���A][�+�숴3�d�}��{�F���. All students in Singapore primary and secondary schools are required to study their official Mother Tongue Language (MTL) - Chinese, Malay or Tamil. 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Recently, in the educational reforms in the country, the mother tongue in the regions plays an important role especially in the educational system. The 2011 Census listed 270 mother tongues; of these, as per a 2017 study, 47 languages were used as mediums of instruction in Indian classrooms. endobj ;�@||�a楫��� the early years of a child‘s education. He described the policy on mother tongue instruction as “politically acceptable”, since it is a part of the NEP; “socially desirable”, as it would help improve learning in school; and “technologically possible”, because it is possible to implement it. Experts argue that an English education is not always the best. According to Noormohamadi (2008), mother tongue is essential for learning as part of intellectual ability. Introduction With a multilingual context, the Philippines through the Department of Education deemed it essential to adopt a Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) (Department of Education Order No.74, s2009). Jhingran gave the example of Chhattisgarhi, which is spoken in 8-10 districts that could yield enough teachers proficient in the language and enough literature too -- and would be accepted by the community -- but is still not the medium of instruction in schools. Introducing the local language as the medium of instruction should definitely be done in two situations--one in areas located along interstate borders and for migrant populations, said Jhingran. If the child is taught in a language they do not understand, none of this will happen,” Jhingran added. ��阮O��w㈀�pI��~�Wc�闖㎩蘆�b Article 350A of the Constitution states that every state and local authority should endeavour to provide “adequate facilities for instruction in the mother-tongue at the primary stage of education to children belonging to linguistic minority groups”. Pedagogical Competencies for Mother-Tongue Teacher Education Traditionally, teacher education has been divided into theory and practice. In terms of its relevance in the e ducational system and language-in-education policy , this study focusing on Our subscription model has seen an encouraging response from many of you, who have subscribed to our online content. Studies from around the world also show that it increases classroom participation, reduces the number of dropouts and grade repetition. the full implementation of mother tongue based multi-lingual education. “This is a tremendous idea. b�;瘦彙�V��Z�[�4 逮葛��J���借T�����J+x���G則.amĿ�yIr沮f'��譴{fM_喚巖i�3�q毫@����pp��|鸞��~�|渼���A,��h륵8poi2程�hr�0瀝/�o\ x갛briW)눠杏v�:F 已��ⅧV瞳㎝\租안奸���9a�家j6틔h�8Zd$��冒]_,�J烏�@�&R;� endobj “Where will the money come from?” asked Swarup. As a premium subscriber you get an across device unfettered access to a range of services which include: Welcome to the premium services of Business Standard brought to you courtesy FIS. Using the language the child is most comfortable with in the early school years improves attendance and learning outcomes, and the ability to learn new languages. In 2019, in rural India, only 16.2% of children enrolled in Grade I could read a Grade I-level text, while only 39.5% could add one-digit numbers orally, found the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) put together by Pratham, an education nonprofit. More subscription to our online content can only help us achieve the goals of offering you even better and more relevant content. Take, for instance, the 2017-18 National Survey Report on education. This model promotes language of instruction in the mother tongue of the school district, rather than Filipino (Tagalog) or English. This would allow children to talk, debate and express themselves in their language while also learning the regional language or English. “If the teacher is still focused on completing the syllabus, on some level, regardless of what the language is, the content being transacted is still not at the level that the child can understand,” she explained. There are more than 7,000 known living languages and most children grow up in an environment where more than one is spoken (Wisbey, 2017). In order to be literate, one should not only speak well, but also know the written language, as language is the system … On the one hand, it seems reasonable and desirable that learners should be able to receive education in their mother tongue, if they so wish. Schools could continue to teach the regional language and English as subjects, experts say. As we battle the economic impact of the pandemic, we need your support even more, so that we can continue to offer you more quality content. Since School Year (SY) 2012-2013, the Mother Tongue-Based-Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) began to be implemented in all public schools, specifically in Kindergarten, Grades 1, 2 and 3 as part of the K to 12 Basic Education Program. For example, in 2017-18, about 14% of those who were enrolled in private schools in India’s rural areas and 19.3% in urban areas chose a private school because English was the medium of instruction. Some of the IITs and the NITs are being shortlisted for implementation of the decision, it added. x��=�r步깍ひ?�瑗利Dpn많\�#��Ｘ:q"&y�箚"�c�B.m�T~燿彦�`쟐r�;@R�j ��熉撤옌�\|Z�n껏�>~뒝�N?��e�_�l67W�8>�r{~懷j}q쌘\�\�片�K옜바�颯|�쐰���_���\��*斧Ld�)sQge-r���?擢�e凜��>y�淋�2�2�ev侄�3 �E&끼��橘P&;��q颯�끅=�9[�_따六靈>,꿨?��?>�飼霓��!��\��{8;��y↔Lj�@�員�+��q��_eU`#�Km�J������햅岳~�M��yGS朦묘瘻&o琓�*o��銳暫j}.e陀M連튕�E\�\�c劣���窈.�斗�e�猿�c�s�7:Wu�)U�FfM制D�E��p�k�F}�]���V寧�j�遭��7K%g㎂#)+玄,���w�<2fq�4겼H)w�>w��n�q�,�투��s\�}���='i�EU N����.�1�U�A旺A��i腸恤陋�+PRi8��g흗拱H7�[坑�渲깩睛'! Digital Editor. “It might not be possible for all languages to become the medium of instruction and it might not be possible for large parts of the country to implement this,” said Jhingran. ��Up�b��z�-��N#PO+��@3�6��M��#�>�씬f�K�����eL%娠a��!v�#��4�I�G�듣q�0�%坼/�/�+�#飜�fI9�t,�1��2���왐3�n�[�q���pt�#�C���80G} 썬둡C�W For instance, in Guatemala, bilingual schooling, despite higher costs, ultimately led to savings of US $5 million a year (over Rs 374 million) because it reduced dropout and repetition, estimated this World Bank study from 1996. We need all the other things to be in place to make any meaningful change,” said Bhattacharjea of ASER. On the other hand, there are some very real difficulties involved in the implementation of this ideal. He suggested an alternative to formal MLE -- the child’s language would not be the medium of instruction but the government would formally mandate that the mother tongue be used in the classroom by teachers and students. In general, however, the longer a child is able to learn in and through his or her mother tongue(s) the greater the educational benefits that can be expected. The idea of using the mother tongue as the medium of instruction in primary school is not new to the Indian education system. But it might not be financially viable because of the lack of funds, he said, and also questioned the “administrative doability” of the policy because of the lack of trained staff, including teachers, to implement the change. 荷B 9v�B�R永���RB�爆���힝Wr�Jc��l,�9�nr�#i�.�:9�B�M9��-寂�:.ゲ�Wj*�V�^\穢�.��/誇lI�y點�j���0N9UF�t距[儡�`��la�]�㏖��in�Q�&%��Ｐ��� -��AWy� �&�渫�DU쏵��i/l�n뚤��^�G�*=�ZS�И(�>�q�*j#U^�-R;宜vhv(�����光�TX�3�n-@+��_i�!Kvy�%Pge^*Y���#��#i��'�|*x�:v�/��A�Y�X|ㅟK�+�J�*瑄澄��3���"袂_製쉼�'`pU防朶_�6tM���오綸�@��F��}E滸kO�\|r������}^��bz�E�v��快�!U#t�U�`��싻쥬��[#��QK�"{�\굇W�Dx�z������b瑄⑴f�H�V�tC �告����;��lP����n%[p�^>Il����YY�Eo陀��?�d�Ie프V�U�t�:�# 쐼�j9?�傍jy~/�j�v�7/�~[:m$�V�m�p�(�Θ>BtZ乳�t,Gv��n��[H�i魏벅$���E^這�q梱@l*t�{ｓ�XZAg�p����N塢�g��`�=a��T純RVn�6�BtB~����w甬����� ,母���68番�:≫��Ｙ�eb@X9�+嵬6��+pL:唾{㎟"[�S0� o匿��-ａ뮌杳�����8臣�c��_�%擡Z這穎*� �3漣�� �l�Dt9R��mA��肩��~A빡8~뻠�u�w鈒�6�?М吏鉥鉉뿡�d+�F�y�@^∮\0퀘�8v랠E�#I�|�.�z饍誅聖鋪�{|�'卿�s�j��쇔J�種���MP��Z/쒀aL)D^Wc|08��A�Qp8�,u챔 Those who do not fulfil these criteria are hired on a contract basis with the condition that they acquire those language skills. Many African countries still use colonial languages as a medium of instruction at different learning levels. However, this would need new books, fresh teacher training and more funding, experts said. In 2009, the Department of Education (DepEd) recognized the benefits of teaching children using their mother tongue or first language. However, school children in this region very rarely have chances to receive their education in the mother tongue. To make this possible, those teachers from the community who are fluent in the mother tongue as well as in a second language (either Odia or English) are recruited, a 2014 circular from the government announcing the extension of this programme said. This “is considered critical for purposes of national pride, self-confidence, self-knowledge, cooperation, and integration”. Mother tongue based multilingual education takes many forms and each school and each community should determine what works best for them. “It is fine for educationists to say that the local language should be the medium of instruction but that is not what parents want, not what families want. Enjoy Reading! Early schooling in a child's mother tongue, as recommended in the new National Education Policy, can improve learning, increase student participation and reduce the number of dropouts, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of evidence from around the world. Further, there is no clear path to implement this change and it is up to local governments and individual institutions whether they want to implement these changes as it is not a mandatory policy. %PDF-1.7 3 0 obj Odisha is the only state to formally incorporate MLE into its education system, and that too only for its tribal areas. International schools and mother tongue. <> The report clubbed several languages and local dialects into the 22 major Indian languages to understand whether the child spoke the same language at home as the medium of instruction in school. <> In 2007, the Odisha government introduced a programme in which the mother tongue of students from scheduled tribes is used as the medium of instruction in primary school. Engineering courses in mother tongue from next academic year in some national institutes: Education Ministry . We must start by making the mother tongue the medium of instruction in our schools, and certainly at the primary level. “You can learn to read and write best in the language that you know. Business Standard is happy to inform you of the launch of "Business Standard Premium Services". “Good learning happens when children have high self-esteem, are well-adjusted in a classroom that provides a positive and fearless environment. The implementation of mother tongue education (MTE) remains a challenge ... (primary) education, four years of secondary education and four years of university education to a new system of 2-6-3-3-3. Support quality journalism and subscribe to Business Standard. We welcome feedback. 4 0 obj Odia is taught as the second language from Grade II and English from Grade III. There has to be systematic outreach to parents to help them understand that even English will become easier for their children if they start with the home language, she said. Despite disparate views on MTE, there is an uneasy consensus on its importance in educational systems, especially in the foundational years. If no teacher from the community fulfils this criteria, the government hires non-local teachers who are proficient in the local language and familiar with the culture. In instances where mother tongue use in lower primary schools is adequately structured and implemented, cognitive development is improved. The policy does suggest technological interventions to “serve as aids to teachers”, and developing or translating “enjoyable” books into local languages and making these available in school and digital libraries. The government also created bilingual dictionaries, textbooks, supplementary reading material and language handbooks in local languages such as Desia, Kuvi and Kui. ANI | Updated: Nov 26, 2020 22:05 IST The 2-6-3-3-3 system comprises two years of pre-primary, six years In Southeast Asia, this is apparent in a rising number of educational programs that utilize this approach. 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