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Option 2 : Building a word wall in the classroom with words in English and their possible equivalents in home languages.
India is a multilingual country with numerous languages and dialects. There are approximately 1652 languages and dialects that belong to the five different language families in the country.
- Mother-tongue is a language that a person has been exposed to from birth. The first language of a child is part of the personal, social, and cultural identity.
- When learners come to school for the first time they come with their mother tongue as it is acquired unconsciously and does not require any formal instruction.
- Students from different home languages struggle in English medium classrooms as they are unaware of it and the classroom language is more formal to them.
- Building a word wall in the classroom with words in English and their possible equivalents in home languages will BEST help in providing initial support for this situation as a 'word wall' is a set of words written or printed in a large font and pasted on a classroom wall in a visible manner.
- It provides children an opportunity where the words are seen, noticed, and used by them. It nurtures the expressiveness, creativity, and imagination skill of the children. It provides a better understanding of root words.
Hence, it is clear that building a word wall in the classroom with words in English and their possible equivalents in home languages will BEST help in providing initial support for the above-mentioned situation.
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