‘Spoken language adds creativity in learning process’

‘Spoken language adds creativity in learning process’

Mangalore Today News Network

Udupi, Dec 23, 2011 : Dr G Prabhakar from the Centre for Southern Regional Languages, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, said on Thursday that dialects in Kannada vary from one region to another with changes in grammar and lexical variations.

 

Speaking at the national workshop on “Coastal Kannada dialect” organised by Southern Regional Languages, Central Institute of Indian Languages in association with Ministry of Human Resource Development, and Rastrakavi Govind Pai Research Centre, Udupi, he said the dialect in coastal Karnataka has the pinch of medieval language features. Kannada has highly influenced the languages like Telugu and Tulu.  There are different dialects in Kannada language, he added.

He said Centre for Regional Languages acts as the nodal agency between the state and the centre in policy matters. A Classical Kannada Language Centre has been set up in Mysore to support research activities. Prabhakar informed that the centre has taken up four major projects to promote the activities concerning regional languages. Of which project “Basha Mandakini” introduced in the year 2006, comprises 27 minutes each episodes covering the topics of culture, land and heritage of particular language. The project Basha Mandakini is introduced in Kannada, Tamil, Marati and Bengali languages. It will be introduced in Telugu language shortly, he added.

It provides visual information of the past and present of the Kannada language, the essence of its geographical space, various religious practices, and tribes of the land.

The other projects of the centre include Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages and National Translation Mission.  Besides, measures have been taken to bring out dictionaries in different languages. He said the centre also gives grant-in-aid for publication and purchasing of books, he added.

Speaking after inaugurating the workshop Tulu Nigantu Yojane Chief Editor Dr U P Upadhyay said Kannada is a rich language with many dialects. The study of literature gains importance when the entire study concentrates on standard language, spoken dialect and folk dialect. The researchers should try to explore and make an in depth study of all these factors concerning language, he added.

Spoken language will help the child to discover the intricacies of the language before learning the disciplined version of the language in schools. The spoken language adds creativity in the learning process besides helping out the child to develop the gestures of expression. Hence, it is indeed essential to teach in mother tongue in schools, he added.

 

Courtesy : Deccan Herald