Advanced Course Reader on Kerala Land and Culture is a well-articulated academic outcome that underlines the culture of the state from ancient times to the post-modern condition in legible and comprehensive language. It delves into the ancient history of Kerala, tracing its evolution through to its latest developments. The book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich cultural heritage, social organization, and distinct identity of the Malayalee (Keralite) people. Each chapter meticulously presents various facets of Kerala's history and culture, making it an invaluable resource for scholars and enthusiasts alike.
The comprehensive nature of the book makes it highly accessible and beneficial for those who are researching Kerala's unique cultural landscape and identities.
Dr Rakesh Cherucodu is a Malayalam Lecturer and the Principal in charge of SRLC, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru. He completed his Ph.D on the influence of colonialism on Malayalam novels with a UGC junior research fellowship. He has written three books about literary and cultural criticism. He has edited books including Keralapaniniyam: Readings & Representations, Kerala Land & Culture, and Balaramayana. He has written numerous pieces for articles in research journals and popular periodicals. He has delivered lectures and paper presentations at national and international seminars and conferences.
He received the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award for literary criticism and the Thanima Award for Best Film Criticism, as well as the Special Jury Award for Best Film Criticism of Kerala Chachithra Akdamy, given by the Chief Minister of Kerala in 2021. His area of speciality is literacy criticism and film studies.
An Advanced Course Text Book on Kerala Land and Culture is to be used as text book material for the Malayalam Teacher trainees of the Southern Regional Language Center, CIIL, Mysuru. This text is to be used at the advanced stage of the 10-month Intensive Course in Malayalam. It could also be used by any learner of Malayalam at a later stage of his/her learning the language.
Studying Kerala Land and Culture at the advanced stage in a total intensive programme involves sharpening the skills already achieved at the basic and intermediate stage and also for developing the creativity in the learner. What are the priorities of learning the language at the advanced stage? It is expected that (i) the learner should be made to develop an interest in the literature and culture of the target language, appreciate the literary works of the target language and kindle in him/her an urge to know more about the culturel in the target language (ii) the learner should be made to utilize the skills already learnt at the lower levels (iii) the focus should be to exploit the thematic content and language of the material available and extend it further. For instance teaching culture could be utilized for various purpose: (i) create cultural harmany with different culture to trainees (ii) generate adcacemic interest on target language's cultural history (iii) motivate more research on their target culture.
This Text consists of literary pieces from Kerala culture, which are suitably selected for the heterogeneous group of learners of Malayalam whose mother tongue could be other than Malayalam i.e, Hindi, Oriya, Telugu, Assamese, Kannada, Bengali, Tamil etc. The age appropriateness of the learners and their interest are kept in mind while selecting the articles. This book Advanced Course Text Book on Kerala Land and Culture focuses the above objectives. It concentrates the land & culture of Kerala. The cultural diversities & specialities of Kerala have been narrated in simple language in the book. The role of the book in teaching & learning the Land & Culture of Kerala in the advanced level at the Centre will be very much valuable. This book is very much informative to research scholars and teachers across the country as well as abroad. This will be as very good text book for the course. All the lessons have been tried out during various academic years and found to be satiable.
Central Institute of Indian Languages was established on 17th July, 1969 with a view to assist and coordinate the development of Indian Languages. It is charged with the responsibility of serving as nucleus to bring together all the research and literary out-put from various linguistic streams under a common head thus, narrowing the gap between basic and developmental research in the fields of language and linguistics in India.
The Institute and its seven Regional Language Centers are engaged in research and teaching which in turn leads to the publication of wide ranging variety of teaching materials. The Preparation of materials in Indian languages here are designed for learning/teaching at different levels, suited to specific needs. Basically, the interest of the Institute is related to the acquisition of language and study of language in its manifold and psycho social relations.
The Central Institute of Indian Languages has initiated Advanced Course Text Book on Kerala Land and Culture in major Indian languages to provide suitable comprehensive materials for learning and teaching the language concerned in any language teaching situation. The teacher is expected to combine the roles of a psycho-linguist, socio linguist, linguist, language pedagogue, a creator of materials, a literary critic and a testing and evaluation expert. Most of his/her competences are naturally reflected in the materials which simultaneously are graded from known to unknown, simple to complex and contrived to the natural. This is not an easy task but has to forgo this difficult task. After research and experimentation we have come out with more questions than answers at each stage of the material production. For example, how basic is basic? What is grading? In what way linguistic and cultural matters are to be graded? With these questions, most learning begins in simpler fashion. How one moves from a purely language based competence to creating literary sensibilities? How does one build material conceptual prose? How are the lessons to be presented? How the translated discourse structure is made to look similar to the original discourse structure? How Questions such as these have been answered differently by different teachers and researchers etc. with these, this search is continuing. The Course Text Book on Kerala Land and Culture continues to represent linguists' unfinished education in this area.
The format for the present book Course Text Book on Kerala Land and Culture is the result of the consensus arrived at by the Principals, Lecturers, Resource Persons (Teaching) of the seven Regional Language Centers and the researchers in the centers involved in materials production. This book is the product of two workshops spanning over one year and actual class room teaching of Malayalam to non-native adult learners who are school teachers from different states and union territories of India. This is the prescribed text for the three month Advanced Course of the 10 month language training program in the Southern Regional Language Centre housed in the Institute at Mysuru.
It's a pleasure to congratulate the Principal, Malayalam Lecturer, Malayalam Resource Person (Teaching), the trainees, the material producers, the supervisors, the editors, our press and publication people who have enabled the Institute to bring out this book in a creditable manner.
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