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1、CulturalandLinguisticRootsofClassroomLearning:MultilingualEducation(MLE)andMLEPlusInterventionswithTribalChildreninOrissaAjitK.MohantyJawaharlalNehruUniversityJuly08,2010Mohanty_IACCP20101Educationalneglectoflanguagesleadingto:¾Illiteracy&relapsetoilliteracy¾Pooreducationa
2、lperformance¾Subtractivelanguagelearninginforcedsubmersionprograms¾High‘push-out’rate¾CapabilityDeprivation&Poverty¾Lossofdiversity(seeMohanty,2008–focusontribalchildren;Mohanty,Panda,Phillipson&Skutnabb-Kangas,2009)July08,2010Mohanty_IACCP20102Dochildrenbenefitfromknowing
3、theirmothertongue?WhatdoesIndianResearchsay?°StudiesamongKondsinKandhamaldistrictshowthatKondchildrenwhoknowKuiare:°Moreintelligent°Creative°Cognitivelybetterdeveloped(metacognition)°HigherclassroomachieversStudiesallovertheworldconfirmadvantagesoflearningmothertonguesforb
4、ettereducation,identityandpositiveselfconceptJuly08,2010Mohanty_IACCP20103MOTHERTONGUEOFCHILDREN:Aresourceorburden?¾MT+Lbilingualsperformbetter2onCognitive,MetacognitiveandAcademicAchievementmeasures[TheKondstudies,&otherIndianstudies]¾Inter-grouprelationsinbilingualcontac
5、tsituationscharacterizedbyintegrationJuly08,2010Mohanty_IACCP20104AchievementinMTMediumSchools°BodochildrenperformbetterinBodomediumschoolsthaninAsameseorEnglishmediumschools(Mohanty&Panda,2009;Saikia&Mohanty,2004)°OtherIndianstudiesalsoshowbetterperformanceinMTmediumschoo
6、lswhenSESdifferencesarecontrolled(Mohanty&others:2008;Nayak,2007;Sema;2008)July08,2010Mohanty_IACCP20105WHYISMTNECESSARYFORQUALITYEDUCATION?°CHILDRENLEARNBETTERINTHEIRLANGUAGE°MTISMOSTCOMPLETE/POWERFULRESOURCE°MTREGULATESCHILD’STHOUGHT(LINKSHERTOFAMILY,COMMUNITY,NATURE&CUL
7、TURE)°CHILDMUSTMOVEFROMKNOWNTOUNKNOWN,FAMILIARTOUNFAMILIARJuly08,2010Mohanty_IACCP20106CaneducationremainconfinedtoMTonly?“NO”°Worldisincreasinglymultilingual°Weneeddifferentlanguagestofunctioneffectively°Multilingualsarebetter–intellectually,cognitively,academically&soon°
8、Theyaremoresuccessfulinto-daysworld°Indiaisamultilingualsociety(weallneedmultiplelanguage
