Assertion (A): All children who enter school are highly competent language users. Reason (R) : Due to language and cultural diversity, they are unable to demonstrate their abilities.
Assertion (A): All children who enter school are highly competent language users. Reason (R) : Due to language and cultural diversity, they are unable to demonstrate their abilities. Correct Answer <span style="">Both </span><span style="">(A)</span><span style=""> and </span><span style="">(R)</span><span style=""> are true </span><span style="">(R)</span><span style=""> is the correct explanation of (A)</span>
Learning is not acquired by birth, but it is the process of acquiring competence by using hereditary resources. School is representative of a society, which is made of a heterogeneous group of people.
- This entails that, in schools, children are placed in a different kind of environment than the one they belong to. They become members of a new society where the operating rules, norms, and interpersonal styles are different from the local environment.
Key Points
- All children who enter school are highly competent language users and have a well-defined vocabulary. They have a natural curiosity to grasp new things.
- We can say that a child who enters school is already an efficient language user of language for s/he can successfully communicate in her mother tongue or the language of home.
- The term diversity indicates that a group of people is made up of individuals who are different from each other in some way. In a language class, most of the students come from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.
- Due to language and cultural diversity, children are unable to demonstrate their language abilities as in this case the diversity becomes a language barrier. For example, if a Hindi speaking student will tell a story in the Hindi language then it will be difficult to understand for an English speaking student.
- We can say that all children who enter school are highly competent language users but because of language and cultural diversity, they may not always be in a position to demonstrate their abilities
Thus, it is concluded that both (A) and (R) are true (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
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