Steps to preserve Languages in Education System : #EducationForAll #CauseAChatter

A language plays an important role that boasts about the affluent culture, rich heritage, diverse perspective, strong belief, profuse literature, extravagant music, and renounced art of a particular region. Every culture's reflection is the way we use our language. It is important to understand a regional language that generates a sense of great bonding and helps to mould completely. 

Can you imagine the World without Language?

We cannot imagine this world without any language. The medium of communication is very important to know each other and improve our perspective about other regions, and countries therefore, breaking all the social barriers. Thus, a language encases our culture and individuality.

But, it’s a sad truth that most of the languages are losing its ground as it is not practiced either in spoken or written form. When a language is lost, the expressions and values get diminished with it. It’s very important to preserve our language and to emphasize its importance our new education policy is encouraging the use of regional languages in the school curriculum.

Why Language is not learned well

• Language can be learned well only when it is practiced well, both spoken and written and for this, we need language experts/teachers. The scarcity of language teachers is huge though measures have been taken to do the best in this scenario.

• The present system has teachers that concentrate on the established way of language learning that does not build a deep connection with the learners/students. 

• The language is not promoted beyond the literary boundaries and not practiced well, so the effect of learning the language is lost.

How Language learning can be made effective:

• By appointing language experts to teach the learners, so that later understand the nit and grit of the language easily.

• The studying material and the vocabulary building needs to be updated on regular basis to include the new inclusion of the language.

• By updating the official structures of the language and circulating the print and digital prints of the language with high-quality vocabulary in the text-books, magazines, and readers is a top priority.

Building a strong base for Language in NEP 2020

• The initiative must begin at the primary level and shall continue through higher education; this will expose students to Indian languages to a larger extent. 

• Hiring the local language expert as a trainer will giving learners adequate expertise.

• An academic 4-year degree course will be launched in Translation and Interpretation and is suggested to be given high priority in the plan.

• Scholarships will be presented to all students of all ages who promote the Indian languages with /or local courses.

• Every school and institution will aim to have a department dedicated to the languages.

• Such a program will give an employment opportunity to language experts and will make sure language is effectively taught to the students.

The need for the Indian Institute of Translation & Interpretation (IITI)

• India is a place where the multi-lingual person is easily found, and that allows being a translator and educator.

• Expanding translation and interpretation of Indian languages and foreign languages with an excellent quality learning material for written and spoken language.

• This institute will employ various multi-lingual language experts in the translation and interpretation sector that will in-turn promote Indian languages.

• This institution can further progressively grow in other locations, with the number of qualified candidates rising.

• Similarly, India will expand its institutions to promote classical languages and literature and will focus on the study of numerous manuscripts that have not got enough attention.

• Special devotion will be given to classical languages departments such as Sanskrit with an effort to gives adequate training to the students so that they can co-relate the number of manuscripts and understand their interrelations with other subjects.

• A National Institute for Pali, Persian & Prakrit will also be set up within campus in the future.

With all these initiatives, we can be assured that languages will be getting their due credit and will be preserved for the future generation. Research for all these works will be appreciated and supported by the education department. So next time when you speak in a language lesser known to the people be sure that you are one of the ambassadors for the language and promote languages by speaking to children and to the group of people who understand the same.

This post is a part of series #EducationForAll on our blog and it is a part of #CauseAChatter campaign of Blogchatter. We have discussed various aspects of Education and each post focuses how Education is for all.