Cultural Effects and Anxiety Faced by the Tribal Children in Learning English
S.V. Karthiga1, Soundarya K.R2
1Dr. S.V. Karthiga, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Science and Humanities, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India.
2Dr. Soundarya K.R, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Science and Humanities, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India.
Manuscript received on 19 February 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 10 March 2019 | Manuscript Published on 08 June 2019 | PP: 763-766 | Volume-7 Issue-5S4, February 2019 | Retrieval Number: E11580275S419/19©BEIESP
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Abstract: As far as the minority children’s education is concerned, many notions were given by The National Policy on Education pertaining to the allocation of incentives and modification of institutional infra- structure. It is also mentioned that minority children’s educational curriculum and instruction should give importance to their own mother tongue or their own tribal language at the beginning, and there should be a gradual switching over from mother tongue instructions to state language. Second language learning is totally different from first language learning. In the second language learning situation, the students can adjust in many ways. Whenever there is a chance for the students to interact with the other students using native language, they use the native language and they prefer not to use the school language/target language. So the learning progress is found at a lesser degree in the tribal areas.It is generally felt that the tribal children face a lot of problems in learning English. The present study tries to analyse the problems and the cultural effects and anxiety faced by the tribal children in learning English.
Keywords: English, State Language, Tribal, Anxiety, Sociocultural.
Scope of the Article: Social Sciences