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Bolii | बोली | భాష | Language | Lingvo: January 2013

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Bolii बोली భాష Language Lingvo. Thursday, January 10, 2013. Test scores and future economic success. Last year's first post was called " India's crisis in learning. And cited the country's poor performance. In the international education-comparison tests PISA. Now, writing in New Scientist. MacGregor Campbell tells us. Worse, "[i]n many cases, high test scores correlate with economic failure"! Summarizing a 2007 study, he says,. In a global economy, where the answers to almost any standard question are a...

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Bolii | बोली | భాష | Language | Lingvo: How many languages are there in India?

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Bolii बोली భాష Language Lingvo. Friday, February 21, 2014. How many languages are there in India? This is a tricky question! Depending on how you define language and dialect, you get diverse answers. Here are three answers. There are over 780 languages and 66 different scripts in India." Ganesh N Devy. Chairperson of the People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), announced this in press conferences in Kolkata and Guwahati in July 2013. As the report. Elsewhere on this blog. The number of individual lang...

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Bolii | बोली | భాష | Language | Lingvo: Private schools not better than government schools - APF study

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Bolii बोली భాష Language Lingvo. Friday, July 4, 2014. Private schools not better than government schools - APF study. An Azim Premji Foundation ( APF. 2013 report, "Private Schools Are No Panacea" ( PDF. 20 pages) "suggests that contrary to popular perceptions, private schools are not adding value as compared to government schools to the children in the main subjects" (p. 15). Previous analyses like that by Wilima Wadhwa in ASER 2009, "Are Private Schools Really Performing Better Than Government Schools?

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Bolii | बोली | భాష | Language | Lingvo: Multilingual education in Nepal - Report

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Bolii बोली భాష Language Lingvo. Sunday, June 29, 2014. Multilingual education in Nepal - Report. Policy and Strategy for MLE in Nepal" ( PDF. Is a 2009 report authored by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Ajit Mohanty. In 67 pages, it takes you through. The rationale for mother-tongue based multilingual education (MLE), especially for ITM (Indigenous/Tribal and [linguistic] Minority) children. The catastrophic costs worldwide of not implementing it. The successful implementations worldwide. By Prof. Naeem Mas...

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Bolii | बोली | భాష | Language | Lingvo: November 2013

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Bolii बोली భాష Language Lingvo. Friday, November 15, 2013. English impact in rural India - Report. A new report has just been published - Viven Berry (ed.), English Impact Story: Investigating English Language Learning Outcomes at the Primary School Level in Rural India. London: British Council 2013). The 74-page report is available as a PDF. Website amidst several other reports. This collaboration between ASER. Consists of the following essays:. Multilingualism in an international context" by Jason Roth...

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Bolii | बोली | భాష | Language | Lingvo: Species and languages - WWF report

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Bolii बोली భాష Language Lingvo. Monday, June 9, 2014. Species and languages - WWF report. Jonathan Loh and David Harmon, in their new report, Biocultural Diversity: threatened species, endangered languages. Develop analogies between biodiversity and linguistic diversity:. In a brief 60 pages, they take us through Biocultural Diversity; Evolution of Species and Language; Decline of Biocultural Diversity; and Status of Species and Languages. Among their conclusions are:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Bolii | बोली | భాష | Language | Lingvo: Language and environment - a response to Madhav Gadgil

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Bolii बोली భాష Language Lingvo. Monday, February 3, 2014. Language and environment - a response to Madhav Gadgil. Gave a talk at IIIT Hyderabad. Came in for special castigation (see also this analysis. Of the bill by PRS Legislative Research). He was tremendously optimistic about citizen-science initiatives (like the Australian WaterWatch. And using the Right to Information Act. In the Q&A that followed, I took the following line (spelt out here in greater detail than I had time for in the session):.

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Bolii | बोली | భాష | Language | Lingvo: July 2012

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Bolii बोली భాష Language Lingvo. Monday, July 16, 2012. Some of whose talks are here. Sends this information on the "seriously endangered" language Aanaar Saami (which the English Wikipedia calls Inari Sami. Suvi Kivelä, journalist and director of the Aanaar Saami archives, has made a 9-minute documentary about her mother-in-law and her two sons and the revitalization of the Aanaar Saami language (which has some 350 speakers). The documentary " Reborn. In now on YouTube with English subtitles. Off to Irel...

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Bolii | बोली | భాష | Language | Lingvo: February 2014

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Bolii बोली భాష Language Lingvo. Friday, February 21, 2014. How many languages are there in India? This is a tricky question! Depending on how you define language and dialect, you get diverse answers. Here are three answers. There are over 780 languages and 66 different scripts in India." Ganesh N Devy. Chairperson of the People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), announced this in press conferences in Kolkata and Guwahati in July 2013. As the report. Elsewhere on this blog. The number of individual lang...

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