I have these questions for Soter to answer:-
1. Does he know 'what is termed as 'Medium of Instructions' in the 'primary
schools' ?
2. Does he agree that a child who speaks the language is the best language to
instruct the child. Can one instruct the child in any other language?
3. Or does he believe that a child who understands a language perfectly well
and speaks it too should be taught another language in his formative years of
understanding just because the child will face this language later on in the
secondary level and thereby totally and completely confuse it?? and give it
zero knowledge about the life it is entering into?
4. Since the child will face another language of instructions in the secondary
level, should the child not be tutored in this language totally and absolutely
during its primary formative years so that it has a smooth transition to the
secondary level and continue from there without a major language hitch? ( which
hitch normally results into dropping out)
5. Whatever one's mother tongue is or be, should the child not tutored to read
and write it??. Is not the primary stage this stage of tutoring?
6. Does learning to read and write one's mother-tongue means that one becomes a
gulam of one's batkar???
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
PS 1: I endorse Samir Kelekar's views totally and absolutely and I believe
Soter does not know what he is talking about.
PS2: I was in the audience of the debate conducted at Doordarshan yesterday.
Not a single panel member did speak about or seem to understand what the term
'medium of instructions' means while they were talking about the abstract
future of the child, its job getting capabilities later in life, the parents'
right to decide the future, the grants from governemts etc etc when I reminded
them that 'medium of instructions' mean not teaching the kid a new language but
tutoring it in the language it speaks and understands, that otherwise, we will
be only confusing the kid in its formative years.
The person to acknowledge this was N. Shivdas.
The panel members were Radharao Gracias, Tomazinho Cardoz, N. Shivdas and
Ramdas Naik. with Wilson Mazarello the moderator.
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Below is yet another letter that landed into into the trash bin of Herald
obviously because it does not fit the assigned designer political agendas for
Goa's miner-builders.
Sir,
The views expressed in the letter "It has to be in konkani' by Samir Kelekar
(Herald, 22/3/11) are of those who live in ivory towers. Who decides which
language is one's mother tongue? A band of linguistic fanatics who have no
other interest beyond their own?
We have not studied konkani during our schooling days but in no way has it
hampered our creativity and performance. This konkani fanaticism will
definitely help us to guarantee more labour in the 'bhat' ( orchards) of the
bhatkars and pawns in the hands of the exploitative political and social class.
We do not need the 'Kelekars' of all Goans to classify what must be our mother
tongue and give certificates on our patriotism.
-Soter D'Souza
Socorro
