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NEP 2020: Promoting Multilingualism in Schools

The document discusses the promotion of Indian languages as outlined in the National Education Policy 2020. It notes that NEP 2020 emphasizes continuing the three-language formula in schools, developing skilled language teachers, and teaching classical and lesser-known languages. The Central Institute of Indian Languages is working to implement NEP 2020 by offering language courses, developing teaching materials, and documenting endangered languages. NEP 2020 recommends teaching Indian languages, English, and foreign languages using innovative methods and technology.

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NEP 2020: Promoting Multilingualism in Schools

The document discusses the promotion of Indian languages as outlined in the National Education Policy 2020. It notes that NEP 2020 emphasizes continuing the three-language formula in schools, developing skilled language teachers, and teaching classical and lesser-known languages. The Central Institute of Indian Languages is working to implement NEP 2020 by offering language courses, developing teaching materials, and documenting endangered languages. NEP 2020 recommends teaching Indian languages, English, and foreign languages using innovative methods and technology.

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PROMOTION OF

INDIAN LANGUAGES NEP


2020

Prof. D. G. Rao
Director
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Language(s) in School Education

• The linguistic diversity of India necessitates linguistic


diversity in schools too.
• Schools can play an important role in sustaining
multilingualism in India.
• Therefore, the relatively high thrust that New Education
Policy (NEP) gives on languages in schools does not require
any justification.
• In doing so, the NEP 2020 has also amply focused the
promotion of all Indian languages and mother tongues
irrespective of their status.
• For the same, NEP recommends development of skilled
teachers through four-year integrated [Link]. Programmes.
NEP 2020 emphasizes

• The continuation of the three-language formula in schools and


teaching-learning in bilingual and trilingual format.
• Skill development of teachers and teacher educators and involvement
of modern technology for enhancing learning outcomes and making
learning enjoyable.
• Teaching-learning of classical languages like Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu,
Kannada, Malayalam and Odia.
• Efforts in preparing high-quality bilingual textbooks in Indian
languages and offering of courses in foreign languages.
• Preparation of innovative pedagogical materials and launch of online
language course for various levels.
• The involvement of translation and the use of modern technology for
making language learning easy and interesting.
The efforts of CIIL

• Offering language diploma courses for in-


service/prospective school teachers and promoting
implementation of three-language formula.
• Preparation of basic grammar, primers and phonetic
readers for various mother tongues including lesser-
known and tribal languages.
• Developing children’s materials bank and coordinating
the establishment of language centres.
• Coordinating with state governments and publishers
the procurement of children’s literature.
The efforts of CIIL contd.
• The LDC-IL housed in CIIL has developed corpora of language
data that can help the development of language textbooks, tools
for analysis and applications for teaching-learning.
• CIIL through its Bharatavani Project offers digitization and web-
hosting of pedagogical resources including books and
dictionaries for numerous languages.
• CIIL through its SPPEL project is documenting and developing
digital archives of lesser-known and endangered languages with
an aim to revitalize these languages.
• The National Translation Mission housed in CIIL provides
training to translators and works for translation of textbooks.
• The National Testing Service – India housed in CIIL has
developed testing & evaluation facility for various Indian
languages and provided training to school teachers.
Pedagogy of Indian Languages

NEP recommends the teaching of Indian languages with


English and Foreign Languages.

NEP envisages the promotion of Indian languages through


regular use, preparation of pedagogical materials, training
of teachers, adoption of mother tongues as medium of
instruction, innovative methods, judicious use of
technology and development of positive attitude towards
all languages and their remarkable unity.

NEP also recommends of linguistic empowerment of


hearing-impaired population through teaching of Indian
Sign Language with its local varieties.

Thank You

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