Teaching, learning and evaluation are the three important activities of educational system and they are independent as well as interdependent activities. For the system to be more effective all the activities should be given equal importance. The ineffectiveness of any one of these will affect the system inexplicably. But the first two are, to a greater extent, emphasized in the educational system. Evaluation, as such, is not cared enough not only in language education but in other studies also. In fact, the process and product are very much important as far as evaluation is concerned. Apart from these two factors, namely, process and product, the ultimate objective of language education is to scientifically and systematically evaluate the competence and performance of the learners.
The National Testing Service-India established in the Central Institute of Indian Languages to cater to the successful pedagogical needs of scientific and systematic teaching, learning and evaluation in different levels of language education has three primary objectives, namely, (i) creation of nationwide consensus and awareness about concrete methods and purposes of evaluation, (ii) production of basic reference materials and (iii) development of training human resources in this area. The NTS-India has been conducting orientation programmes for the teachers for successful implementation of the stimulating research findings on the concept based continuum of graded syllabi containing separate dimensions for language and literature. This is the second publication of its kind from the NTS-India, on Tamil language education.
The General Frame of Reference was first prepared in English by the Centre for Testing and Evaluation of the institute to assess the level of mastery in language and literature and the consequential growth of learner’s personality. The NTS-I is planning to prepare the conceptual explanations of all these concepts with suitable illustrations in all the Indian languages. Developing scales and other testing tools to determine overall competence of students in language and literature is one of the main objectives of the National Testing Service. This work has been initially started in Hindi, Tamil and Urdu and now extended to Assamese, Nepali, Oria and Maithili. It will be extended to other Indian languages also in the near future.
It becomes necessary to prepare parallel terms and_ their conceptual explanations in these languages. The concepts related to language are arranged in their hierarchical order with definitions, explanations and examples in Tamil. The draft material was prepared by the academics of National Testing Service-India and they were further enriched and modified by the subject experts during a series of workshops. This volume is based on language and about 200 explanations are given with examples.
Dr. M. Balakumar, Officer-In-charge, NTS and his team members deserve high appreciation for completing this challenging task in a short period.
This material will be proved to be useful for the scholars active in the fields of teaching, learning, evaluation, development of syllabi and text book preparation and other allied areas.
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