Police Model Paper (Gujarat Police) No 3
Building familiarity with the language: A
pre-literacy curriculum
Drama
and the enacting of plays is a traditional route to such pseudo-production in
authentic, comprehended contexts. Beginning with action rhymes, simple plays,
or skits, theatre as a genuine class activity can promote the child’s
engagement with language and its performance. At later stages, this can develop
into the study of rhetoric (along with grammar, see below).
Complementing and
supplementing teacher inputs
A limiting factor for providing sustained
classroom discourse for comprehensible input is the teacher’s own limited
language proficiency (cf. Krishnan and Pandit (2003) for a dismal picture of
the preparedness of teachers of English at Class I). However,
(i) Projects such as Interactive Radio Instruction
(CLR, Pune)10 suggest that local
radio can deliver simple spoken language in comprehensible and interesting
contexts that leads both to language acquisition by the child and to improvement
in teacher proficiency, beginning as late as Class V in rural “English as
foreign language” contexts. Regular and sustained exposure needs to be ensured,
along with continuous feedback about comprehensibility.
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