LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:5 May 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Improving the Reading Achievement of Tribal Learners
Through Direction Instruction Method

Ashitha Varghese & Dr. P. Nagaraj


Introduction

A large number of deprived groups of population in India remains unable to participate in the process of country’s development and has affected the country’s pace of socioeconomic development. It is severe in the case of Tribes, who are socially and economically marginalized. The social deprivation of group is reflected in their educational backwardness. In spite of various initiatives taken by governments to overcome educational backwardness of tribal groups , a vast majority of tribal population in India remains outside the education system. Though children are getting enrolled in school, less percentage of students complete their schooling. The increase in number of drop outs is a major problem prevailing in schools of tribal areas. A survey of higher education in the country, conducted by Times of India (August 2012) reveals that the Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) of Scheduled Tribes is deplorable at 4.4 percent. The result reports that the Tribal groups are falling behind in higher education.

Education as an Instrument for Social Development

Education is the instrument of social development, economic growth and equality. The development of a country is determined by the quality education it prevails. It is the process that fits an individual for social living and it helps to transmit customs, beliefs, language and the heritage of the society. Any effort of education should aim at equipping the people to meaningfully participate in various modern activities and institutions of power in the society. If development is seen as socio-cultural, economic and technological transformation of society, then language becomes an important variable in the development discourse.


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Ms. Ashitha Varghese, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of English & Foreign Languages
Bharathiar University
Coimbatore
Tamilnadu
India
ashiv86@gmail.com

Dr. P. Nagaraj
Associate Professor
Department of English & Foreign Languages
Bharathiar University
Coimbatore
Tamilnadu
India
nagrajp.english@gmail.com

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