[MLE] National Seminar on Language Education, Chhattisgarh
Dear MultiLingual Education Friends, The report on the National Seminar on Language Education has come out . The seminar was organized jointly by the SCERT and IFIG at 21-23 February, 2014 at Raipur Chhattisgarh with Dr Mahendra Mishra as convenor. The three main issues addressed at this seminar are stated as follows: How multilinguality is a reality and how our schools are unable to ensure the linguistic rights of the children. How language of the text book is teacher-centric and unable to represent the meaning of the texts in a language that is not understood by the children. How education can be imparted – as far as practicable to those children who are linguistic minority, and equally be able to maintain equal competencies in many languages like