Learning Materials
What type of learning materials will be needed if such a policy is adopte? How can we improve the language learning materials so that we enable to the learners to learn languages for practical use?
LEARNING
Having capsules of learning materials in different languages in digital formats may be one workaround.
Further, teachers should teach languages through a variety of activities rather than a textbook lesson with questions at the end of each lesson to be memorized and answered in examinations.
The same classroom activities and guessing games can be repeated in most of the languages to help children learn languages for not passing examinations but for specific real life use.
Language teachers can team teach and help children acquire more than one language effectively and enjoyably.
One activity and one guessing game is given here as an example. Similar activities, games and interactive materials can be planned for all languages.
Example: a pen, a pencil, a scale, a book, a coin, etc.
These words can be taught in all the languages using similar activities and games. Teachers of different languages can work together and make the children do the activities in one language to start with and then repeat in other languages. This way children will be familiar with the procedures of playing the game or conducting the activity and can easily focus on the language difference. They can also understand the similarities and differences between two or more languages.
Once a series of activities are planned for the word level, another set of activities can be planned for simple sentences such as, 'I am reading', 'We are reading', 'She is reading', 'He is reading', 'They are reading' and questions such as, 'Is he reading?', 'Are they reading?', etc.
Language Samples are given here in different Indian Languages
