There is always been a case of dilemma for the parents whether to keep their children continue their studies in their mother tongue or should there be moved to English medium to said to have "better prospects".
However, listen this news first:
In the UP Board exam, for about 0.31 million (3.1 lakh) students could NOT clear their first language, Hindi, Examination in the matriculation exam this year. This clearance of the language paper is made compulsory for all the students and these 0.31 million students failed in their exams. UP is always considered to be an Indian state with maximum people use Hindi as official first language of education, in India. but what does it show?
As in every debatable case, bilingual education has its own merits and demerits as the perspectives do differ. Let us see the commonly put forward ones starting with merits:
1. Children always understand what they are exposed the most. In this case, the mother tongue language scores due to heavy usage day in day out. Hence the first language definitely stands out in picking up the concepts easily.
2. For a language and its nuances to be learnt to enjoy studies, the access to pitch, tone and dialects are very important and first language scores again.
There may be many more but given below were commonly said de-merits:
many more to put across a debate on this as well...
Back to the UP board stats:
What does these above statistics indicate with the bilingual education in mind? Do let me know your views on them through comments section. Let me put forward my thoughts on them tomorrow..
However, listen this news first:
In the UP Board exam, for about 0.31 million (3.1 lakh) students could NOT clear their first language, Hindi, Examination in the matriculation exam this year. This clearance of the language paper is made compulsory for all the students and these 0.31 million students failed in their exams. UP is always considered to be an Indian state with maximum people use Hindi as official first language of education, in India. but what does it show?
As in every debatable case, bilingual education has its own merits and demerits as the perspectives do differ. Let us see the commonly put forward ones starting with merits:
1. Children always understand what they are exposed the most. In this case, the mother tongue language scores due to heavy usage day in day out. Hence the first language definitely stands out in picking up the concepts easily.
2. For a language and its nuances to be learnt to enjoy studies, the access to pitch, tone and dialects are very important and first language scores again.
There may be many more but given below were commonly said de-merits:
- English always recognized as Internationally accepted language of communication. Hence it is essential to develop fluency on the same and degree with the same medium made "must".
- Not many of the institutes offer advanced schooling OR higher education prospects in the first language or Non-English medium. Hence the potential narrowing down of the career options are huge.
many more to put across a debate on this as well...
Back to the UP board stats:
- 37.5 lakh OR 3.75 million students have appeared to have registered for this examination in UP board this year.
- Out of them, Only 7 Lakh or 0.7 million students got more than 60 percentage marks in Hindi.
- Out of them, ONLY about 1500 students score more than 91 percent in the subject.
- 40 percentage of students who have scored more than 90 percen in Maths and other science subjects could NOT score more than 50 percent in Hindi.
What does these above statistics indicate with the bilingual education in mind? Do let me know your views on them through comments section. Let me put forward my thoughts on them tomorrow..
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