Bedamatta, Urmishree
(2013)
Teaching Learning Materials in a Multilingual Education Programme.
Language and Language Teaching, 2 (1).
pp. 38-40.
ISSN : 2277-307X
Abstract
This means that first generation tribal students
need to learn to use their mother tongue for
academic discourses before moving on to using
the school language. In the MLE programme,
such TLMs, which call for greater, imaginative
use of language, are used only to develop BICS
when in fact they can be used to develop CALP
as well. Given the kind of TLMs that have been
categorized under CALP, it is the teacher who
ends up doing all the talking. There is hardly
any scope for the children to indulge in
‘academic talk’. Stories, riddles and folk games,
if used imaginatively by the teacher, could help
initiate BICS and CALP talk simultaneously.
Cummins (2008), talks about this simultaneity
during his discussion on the evolution of the
theoretical constructs of BICS and CALP: “
The initial BICS/CALP distinction was
elaborated into two intersecting continua
Teaching Learning Materials in a
Multilingual Education Programme
Urmishree Bedamatta
Language and Language Teaching Volume 2 Number 1 January 2013 39
(Cummins, 1981a) that highlighted the range of
cognitive demands and contextual support
involved in particular language tasks or activities
(context-embedded/context-reduced, cognitively
undemanding/cognitively demanding) … It was
also recognized, however, that these dimensions
cannot be specified in absolute terms because
what is “context-embedded” or “cognitively
demanding” for one learner may not be so for
another as a result of differences in internal
attributes such as prior knowledge or interest”
(Coelho, 2004; Cummins, 1981a, p.74) (my
emphasis).
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Language, Multilinguality, Multilingual Education, Learning Classrooms |
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