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Adoption of technology in teaching of language: A critical assessment of Punjabi(mother tongue)

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  • Mandeep, Kaur
  • Gursharan Singh, Kainth

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Mother-tongue plays a paramount role in child’s development. It is the heart and soul of child's education. It is the foundation on which the personality of the child is built. The study of mother- tongue is of dire necessity on psychological, intellectual, emotional and cultural grounds. It is our duty to adopt and adapt mother-tongue as medium of all non-linguistic subjects, thereby making it easy and interesting for the child to learn these subjects. Teachers rarely use teaching technology like multimedia, instructional technology etc. They adopt lecture cum text book method-a boring procedure. Students are made to mug up even stories and poems. Students are passive partners in the learning process. No attempt is made to arouse their creativeness or encourage their self-expression so what they learn is poor learning. This calls for drastic changes. Language learning is a part of education in the wider sense. One of the important causes for the deterioration of the standard of mother-tongue (Punjabi) in Punjab is inadequate provision of teaching aids. In the present study, an attempt has been made to arrive at some precise conclusions.

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  • Mandeep, Kaur & Gursharan Singh, Kainth, 2011. "Adoption of technology in teaching of language: A critical assessment of Punjabi(mother tongue)," MPRA Paper 31886, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:31886
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    Keywords

    Punjabi; mother tongue; technology;
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    • I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
    • A19 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Other

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