Kannada Intermediate Course Language Lab Materials is a compilation prepared keeping in view the varied genres of Kannada language and culture. The audio-visual lessons in this volume are designed in such a way to help the Kannada L2 learners to develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
Vijayalakshmi A. Patil is a Guest Lecturer in Kannada in Southern Regional Language Centre, Mysuru. She is actively engaged in teaching Kannada as an 1.2 and preparing Kannada language teaching-learning materials.
Sannapapayya is a former Guest Lecturer in Kannada in Southern Regional Language Centre. Mysuru. Presently, he is working as a Sensor Fellow in the Centre of Excellence for Studies in Classical Kannada. He is also involved in Kannada Ly material production. His areas of interest include Kannada language, linguistics and literature.
The Southern Regional Language Centre (CIIL), Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, has been engaged in Teaching of 4 major Dravidian Languages as Second Languages mainly to in-service graduate teachers as a measure to fulfill the Language Policy of the Government of India ever since it was established in the year 1969-70.
Language Education in particular L2 and L4, involves specialised expertise in adopting various kinds of language teaching methods, materials and media. In order to make the teaching-learning highly effective and efficient, the Centre has been supplementing direct classroom instruction with the technological aids in language laboratories. There are mainly 2 kinds of language laboratories - Audio Active and Audio Passive. While the former keeps both the facilitators (instructors/teachers) and the learners engaged in direct contact that helps constant monitoring, counseling and implementing remedial measures to help the learners conveniently and easily overcome their learning problems through relevant and necessary drills and exercises, the later does not provide such an opportunity for communication between the facilitators and the learners. It is for this reason that the Centre has been actively making use of the Audio Active language laboratories for the purpose.
Needless to mention that special kinds of language instructional material needs to be developed to suit the medium concerned (language laboratories in the present case) to meet the requirements of the learners both at the group and individual levels. Such an exercise of supplementary instruction through language laboratories could help conveniently develop primary and higher order language skills and study skills. It goes without saying that suitable and appropriate drills and exercises play a significant role.
The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) celebrates its Golden Jubilee this year after completing 50 years of excellence. The Institute was established on July 17, 1969 by the Government of India in Mysuru to help in evolving and implementing the language policy of the Government and to coordinate the development of Indian Languages by conducting research in the areas of language analysis, language pedagogy, language technology and language use in the society.
It began its journey with several units of research such as Tribal and Border Languages, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Material Production and Training. Testing and Evaluation, Educational Technology, Lexicography and Translation, Cartography, Folklore and Computer Applications. In addition to this, seven Regional Language Centres were set up at Mysuru, Patiala, Bhubaneswar, Pune, Lucknow, Solan and Guwahati with a goal of implementing the three language formula and thereby contribute to national integration. These Centres offer a 10-month Diploma in Language Education in second languages and teach 20 Indian languages to non-native speakers mainly to in service teachers, prospective teachers, research scholars and general public. CIIL was one of the few institutions that initiated work on natural language processing in the early 1990s. It has interdisciplinary academic collaborations with various institutions at both national and international levels. The Institute is well recognised by the academic fraternity across the globe for the quality of its wide-ranging linguistic research and language studies.
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