Question

According to NCF 2005, learning of English aims

1. to enable knowledge acquisition through literacy and its development into an instrument of abstract thought
2. to subsume the languages that a child acquires naturally from her/his home and societal environment
3. to introduce standard sign language in English for children with languages related impairments
4. to provide adequate facilities at the state level for instruction in English at the primary stage of education

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : to subsume the languages that a child acquires naturally from her/his home and societal environment

English in India is a global language in a multilingual country. A variety and range of English-teaching situations prevail here owing to the twin factors of teacher proficiency in English and pupils' exposure to English outside school.

• National Curriculum Framework is driven with the vision to address issues such as equality of opportunities, assessing learning, quality experiences, educational purposes, etc.
• There are four NCF published in India by NCERT and NCF 2005 is one of them. It seeks to provide a framework for the betterment of educational purposes and experiences.
• According to NCF 2005, 'English' may be one of the languages for learning activities that create the child's awareness to the world.

 

• According to NCF 2005, learning of English aims to subsume the languages of home, larger kinship group, street, and neighborhood, i.e. languages(s) that a child acquires naturally from her/his home and societal environment.
• It is indeed hard to exaggerate the importance of teaching home languages at school. Though children come equipped with basic interpersonal communicative skills, they need to acquire at school cognitively advanced levels of language proficiency.
• Basic language skills are adequate for meeting situations that are contextually rich and cognitively undemanding such as peer-group interaction; advanced-level skills are required in situations that are contextually poor and cognitively demanding such as writing an essay on an abstract issue.

Hence, we conclude that according to NCF 2005, learning of English aims to subsume the languages that a child acquires naturally from her/his home and societal environment.