Gupta, Madhu and Chandna, Yashika
(2014)
A short report of the English language
capacity building workshop.
Language and Language Teaching, 3 (2).
pp. 63-66.
ISSN 2277-307X
Abstract
The English capacity building workshop
comprised 21 participants, 10 facilitators, 9 Hindi
co-development participants and 9 English co-
development participants. It commenced with
a recapitulation of the topics and reflections from
the previous workshop during which an insightful
summary of ideas and concepts on the nature
of language, language acquisition, reading
strategies and the concept of reading emerged.
The context setting was done by recapitulating
the learnings from the previous workshops and
introducing the topics of the forthcoming
interaction.
Kamleshji introduced the topics for the current
workshop. He reiterated that in continuation with
the previous workshops, we would explore the
different perspectives on literacy, reading and
writing, and their relevance in the classroom.
The first session was on the “Origins of
Writing”. In this session, the participants
explored how man must have created symbols
for communication through many interesting
experiential activities. This gave the participants
a sense of the journey of the written word from
early man’s symbolic pictographic
representations of thought to the present day
alphabetic and syllabic systems.
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