Yet all languages even the so-called primitive ones
Yet all languages even the so-called primitive ones
A number of languages are used by people living in different states of India and this is why there are different types of vernacular medium schools in.
The Use of Vernacular Languages in Education. 689 should be made a subject for separate study on a world-wide scale. This.
Education (1952) 36-52. 'Pedro T. Orata
have established schools that promote the use of vernacular language. parents and teachers blamed vernacular language education in addition to other ...
teaching the vernacular languages Fijian or Hindi
The use of vernacular languages in education. (Unesco: Monographs on f mental education Vol. 8.) Pp. 156. Paris
Educational Philosophy and Application 1889-1931
sound educational practice and that the use of the Navajo language Bull William A.
The Use of vernacular languages in education; Monographs on fundamental education; Vol :8; 1953 Subject: ED 52/III 8a/A; ED 52/III 8/F Keywords: vernacular languages; mother tongue instruction; language of instruction; basic education Created Date: 20030317115359Z
use of anything but the vernacular in the primary grades seems the height of folly If education in the early years is to function in life it must deal with ordinary reading writing arithmetic and the social and business relations with one's fellows in the language of everyday life
138 USE OF THE VERNACULAR IN EDUCATION contrary typically British to take distant ultimate aims into considera-tion at an early stage of the proceedings and to bear them in mind while maintaining flexibility in the intermediate stages and adapting them on a wide scale to present contingencies
Importance of vernacular language can be understood by the words of former President of India Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam who once said that science education should be imparted to children in vernacular language to bring creativity and enable easy grasp of the subject.
In contrast, use of an international language as a medium of instruction would promote mixing of people from different ethnic or racial groups that would still have their unique cultures and vernacular languages which do not necessarily have to be preserved through use of vernacular languages as medium of instruction at universities.
However, the vernacular languages have remained indispensable vehicles of communication. For more than 20 million people in Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa, the Chichewa (or Chinyanja/ Cinyanja) has become the most significant language of daily life.
Learning in vernacular medium schools can have two types of effects on students. Either they can feel biased towards their native language, or they can fell diffident of being educated in vernacular medium school. The best way to make children learn is to teach them in their native language.