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Paradigm Shifts in Language Acquisition and its Application in the Present Scenario
Swayam Prabha Satpathy
Keywords:
Comprehensibility, Education, Interaction, Language.
Abstract:
Language is both the ‘medium’ and the ‘manner’ of education. It enables the process of teaching and learning to take place; and one of the principal goals of education is the development of students’ ability to use language. Learning in all subjects involves comprehensibility of the use of language adapted to develop particular areas of knowledge and expertise. The focus is mainly concerned with spoken language. It is examined interaction between teachers and learners and interaction amongst learners. But before focusing on talk in educational settings, it is imperative on our part to consider the use and functions of language, and its relationship to a student’s thinking, in a more general way.
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