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> *Simply written and well argued... Why English medium in Government > schools will only worsen the situation of the children .... Please read and > share widely ... including with your networks in the state governments > (Karnataka, AP ....). *This also violates the recommendation of the > National Education Policy (2019) that elementary education for each > learner, should be in the language spoken at home. > > Guru, IT for Change > > > *The false allure of English-medium schooling, by Anjali Mody* > Updated: November 18, 2019 01:15 IST > > Source - > https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-false-allure-of-english-medium-schooling/article30000571.ece > > > *Andhra Pradesh’s push to make English the medium of instruction in > state-run schools will prove counterproductive* > The Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh is set to make all > government elementary schools ‘English-medium’ from the next academic year. > There has been the expected party-political denouncement of the decision, > despite the fact that it is really just the scaling up of a policy proposal > made during N. Chandrababu Naidu’s tenure, when English was introduced as > the medium of instruction in a select number of schools as a pilot project. > > The push for English as the medium of instruction in government schools in > Andhra Pradesh, as in other States including Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, is > due to two related factors. First, there is a belief that English-medium > schooling can guarantee good jobs. Second, economically constrained > families are shifting their children from free government schools to > private English-medium schools. It is to try and reverse this trend (which > also poses a threat to government teaching jobs) that many State > governments have made at least some of their schools English-medium or > started English-medium sections. > > *Research, from India and across the world, shows that children who get > educated in their mother tongue learn better than those who start school in > a new language. A new language in the early school years, especially one > that is not used outside school, can become a barrier to learning. This is > also plain common sense: if a child speaks or understands the classroom > language, engaging with new concepts, ideas and information is easier, as > is learning to read and write. Even researchers who advocate privatisation > of schools as a quality improvement measure accept that English-medium > schools are not the solution. A study of learning outcomes in government > and private elementary schools in Andhra Pradesh has found that children > perform best in Telugu-* > *medium schools.* > > *Ignoring the evidence* > Governments, while making policy changes favouring English-medium schools, > have ignored the evidence. For politicians, it is a win-win situation — > they are able to give a mass of voters what they appear to want, at no > significant additional cost. For the influential middle class, it is > comforting to believe that poor children are getting a leg-up through > English-medium government schools. Even some Dalit intellectuals who claim > to speak for the most vulnerable hold that it is English-medium schools > that will emancipate them, and that those who disagree are hell-bent on > retaining the status quo. > > Even ignoring all the evidence about language and learning, what sort of > English-medium schools does the government promise? At the very minimum, > such schools will need teachers who, apart from being knowledgeable in the > subjects they teach, are also fluent in the medium of instruction. No State > government can claim that a majority of teachers, especially in elementary > schools, are English-fluent, not even the ones who teach English. The vast > majority of them have had their entire education in their mother tongue or > the State language, and have spent their working lives teaching in that > language. With rare exceptions, any English they have is bookish. > ‘Retraining’ them, through short-term language courses, would not transform > them into teachers for English-medium schools. On the contrary, it will > handicap them, making the best of them resentful, and the disinterested > even more so. > > *In-egalitarian system* > > > > > *The problem lies not in the medium of instruction, but in an > in-egalitarian education system that is completely skewed in favour of the > intergenerationally privileged. This is a system whose design — from the > annual school calendar to the syllabus and textbooks to teacher engagement > to the high-stakes board exams — ignores the vastly different socioeconomic > realities of a majority of children. The focus on English medium pulls a > veil over these knottier problems.Politicians and the middle class (whose > powerful voices make or influence policy) have for too long promoted the > canard that if you give everyone the “same thing” — in this case > English-medium schools — it makes everything equitable. Making > Telugu-educated school teachers instruct children, with no English, in > English will not transform Andhra Pradesh government schools into > institutions of the kind Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy’s children go to. On the > contrary, such schools will be a parody of the elite schools, like the > ‘affordable’ private English-medium schools that children most often move > to from government schools. In these schools, teachers with barely any or > no English read from English textbooks and use the mother tongue or State > language to communicate; students have to cram the English textbooks or > prepared answers for their tests. The result is that they develop a hold > over neither their mother tongue/State language nor English.This is what > the government English-medium schools will offer, with the only difference > that they will be free. This sort of ‘English-medium education’, far from > making education more equitable and closing the social gap, will accentuate > inequity.* > > A government really concerned about education and making English > accessible to poor children in government schools should focus on the > children’s natural receptiveness to new languages by teaching English as a > language. Investing in modern language-teaching education (not short-term > training) for English-language school teachers is essential. Anything else > is just an eyewash that people will soon be wise to. > > Anjali Mody is a journalist with a special interest in education > > IT for Change, Bengaluru > www.ITforChange.net > > -- > 1. Webpage for this HindiSTF is : > https://groups.google.com/d/forum/hindistf > 2. For doubts on Ubuntu and other public software, visit > http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions > 3. 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