Course 7 Activity 1: Share Your Reflection
According to the World Bank, 37% of children in the world are forced to read and write in a language which they neither speak nor understand. What kind of challenges these children must be facing? Share your reflection.
According to the World Bank, 37% of children
ReplyDeleteThe unfamiliar language hinders their progress and might lead to their disinterest.
ReplyDeleteThere is a barrier in understanding and hence leads to lack of interest to study as the child is unable to comprehend what's happening around him/her. This affects the learning process and also maybe the reason for school dropout.
ReplyDeleteFirstly they are facing lack of interest. So this will work as barrier in learning language, it may also lack in understanding the concept of that language because it is forced to learn by the children, which disturb the pace of learning and motivation of language learning and understanding
ReplyDeleteThe unfamiliar language hinders their progress and might lead to their disinterest.So content should explain in their mother tongue too.
ReplyDeletehinder in overall development of the child
ReplyDeleteThere is a barrier in understanding and hence leads to lack of interest to study as the child is unable to comprehend what's happening around him/her.So this will work as barrier in learning language, it may also lack in understanding the concept of that language because it is forced to learn by the children, which disturb the pace of learning and motivation of language learning and understanding
ReplyDeleteThe learning does start for these children, they loose interest as they are unable to follow the language which is a key to learning
ReplyDeleteThe children who are deprived of learning in their mother tongue in Early education are facing a lot many problems like not understanding the instructions by the teachers, not sharing their experiences and emotions with the teachers, not understanding to comprehend the story told by the teacher, not understanding the concepts taught and so on. These all result in lack of interest by the students and also not fulfilling the aims of FLN Mission.
ReplyDeletethe unfamiliar language may lead to disinterest, lack of confidence. so the children should be taught in their familiar language too at early stage.
ReplyDeleteLanguage learning should be meaningful and joyfully experienced for the young children. Teaching children with unfamiliar language not only creates disinterest but gives shallow understanding of their learning. This reason distracts the children's attention and disinterest in a learning activity which shows the sign of lack of readiness. Dealing with these children forcefully to read and write in other languages results in low self esteem and lack of confidence which create unsecure climate. As a result they easily drop out or are academically descended.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely true this is.We should inculcate multilingual way while discussing the concept to increase higher order thinking skills.Once the concept is clear one can easily translate in any language.secondly we should make teaching learning process interesting by adding activities and involving children.
ReplyDeletelanguage learning should always be a matter of interest, like and curiosity among the kids. Teaching and learning in a foreign language can create disinterest among learners. Generally those who do not get enough support from home, finds it very difficult to connect with the teaching learning materials. Many a times these kids needs special help from their teachers not only to read & understand but to boost their confidence.
ReplyDeleteLanguage is the most important means of communication between a teacher and the student. For effective learning to take place they need to understand each other. If children do not understand the language that is communicated to them then they only learn to copy and often memorise the words and numbers, but don’t understand them and can’t apply them usefully. In these situations, many children drop out of school altogether, while others fail their examinations and spend years repeating grades. It further leads to disinterest in studies.
ReplyDeleteIt is a great hindrance to the children to study a language for the first time which they have never heard. This is because children learn their mother tongue first which is the language spoken at home and they are exposed to first.
ReplyDeleteIf children are forced to read and write in a language which they neither speak nor understand, they will refrain themselves from studies and it appears them as a burden. Freedom of language makes them understand the concepts easily and creates interest towards new learning.
ReplyDeleteChildren will be in so much pressure to learn so that they dont have intrest in learning and writing. It is important to learn to the fullest so that children gain lots of knowledge. If children are pressurized to learn they dont get any knowledge and even children dont have intrest in studies.
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