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NAME: AMI SOJITRA
PAPER:
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
CLASS:
M.A. PART 2
TOPIC:
A CONFLICT OF LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE IN SOCIO-CULTURAL DIMENTION OF
SOCIO-LINGUISTIC BILINGUAL OF GUJARAT: CASE STUDY
COLLEGE:
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, MKBU
A
CONFLICT OF LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE IN SOCIO-CULTURAL DIMENTION OF
SOCIO-LINGUISTIC BILINGUAL OF GUJARAT: CASE STUDY
In
India now a day we find struggle of children between two Mediums of
study -Mother tongue and English. Some of the people believe that the
child must study in English medium school because without English no
one have future. English is international language so if anyone want
to go ahead than English is the first Step. But the primary thing to
accept any language is the Culture. Whenever we accept any language
we need to be familiar with the culture.
Culture
and the language both are closely connected with each other that even
we want to just learn the language and not follow the culture than
its nearly impossible. The roots of any language is always the
culture. So here I have try to know that is it just easy for the
children who study in English medium and also the parents are
supporting him but what about the other? When he goes back to his
culture is it easy for him to adjust with others? Socio- culture is
my primary field of study.
English as language is
spreading in the world like a wind. So every parents want their child
must be master of English language so he must never face any problem.
My area of study is Problems of children who are studying in English
medium school even their parents are also supporting them to create
such environment but when they go back to their culture and meet
other people of their society is it difficult for them to adjust with
other? What kind of problems they are facing? They feel superiority
over them or feeling inferiority? They become Central of attention
or avoiding by others? They match with every one of just running away
from other children?
Human
is a social Animal. We cannot live without society but we also want
to has some superior status in our society. To just increase our
level in society we are running fast and fast. Parents are not asking
the child that what he want? As per the need of English in the
society we find that if the child is studying in English medium that
somewhere it’s give satisfaction to parents that they have done
their best for child. Generally, many cases come on the headline that
if parents cannot give appropriate atmosphere to the child at home
that he get confuse between two languages.
Modern Parents are also trying
to make everything easy for the child so they are starting to behave
like a English man. The English culture, manners, way of living life,
attitude and aptitude, even celebrate such festival which give some
sense to the child that how to be in such occasion. No doubt this
will be very helpful to the child but what if other child from the
family are not getting the same environment? When they all get
together in any occasion or any other festival than this child must
find himself different from others.
Here
I have studied some cases in which I find what the children have
facing because of their culture and life is different.
CASE
STUDY:
Before I represent my report I
want to say that its always become difficult for some to adjust
easily in any culture but after all it depends on an individual.
- KhushChetanbhaiGelani
Std. 5
P.P.Savani school,
Surat
English Medium
In this case I have studied on
the base of Age. I find that parents are very supportive and also
well educated. His mother is trying her best to improve his level in
study. They are celebrating such festivals like Christmas, He knows
about the Bunny not only as animal but also reference with
Christianity. His mother is doing this all because its helps him to
adjust when he goes to the school and not feel alienation.
But when I have asked her
mother about his behaviour when he meet other children she was
disappointed from her child. He cannot easily understand what others
are playing, even the language is also major problem which don’t
allow him to connect with other easily. When other children are
playing in dirt and not so clean he avoids to go with them.
He cannot understand his
mother tongue properly so he doesn’t understand what elders are
saying. And sometimes elders also shout on him because they think he
is not obedient to them.
- Milan J. Dobariya
Std.10
St. Xavier High
school, Nasik
He is also the one who have
Gujarati family background but he is studying in English Medium from
the childhood. Even he is living very far from home and coming only
few times to visit his home and parents at Gujarat. As he is living
away from the Gujarat and Gujarati people he is just alien to most of
the Gujarati rituals. Even he wasavoided to come home in the
vacation.
Whenever he come back
to home he feels that he is not a family member because he doesn’t
like the behaviour of other children of family. When everyone playing
together he used to stay silent. But as he become elder he
understands everything about Gujarati Culture. He can understand the
Gujarati language because he learnt that.
3)SavanPatotkar
Std. 8
Sister Nivodita
High school, Hyderabad
She belongs from Marathi
family. Her parents are living at Hyderabad but their roots lied in
Maharashtra. She has spent her childhood at Maharashtra but later on
they have shifted to Hyderabad. She has some blurred memory of her
childhood days. Even after shifting to Hyderabad they are following
the culture of that place and living like the part of that place.
After 9 years her
family have visited her homeland again. When she has gone there she
feels that she come to some unknown place among the stranger. She
faced many problems. The first is Language, because everyone speaking
Marathi Fluent but she finds problem in speaking. She cannot
understand the rituals of people, Even the way of living life is
something different.
4)Priyanka
Chattopadhyay
Std. MA Sem 3
Department of
English, Pune University
Priyanka is a girl
a mature girl. She has studied in throughout English Medium. She has
also passed many years with atmosphere of English. And when she came
back to her culture she doesn’t feel any difficulty because she
used to visit her homeland often. She was much familiar with her
culture and English culture.
From the beginning
she has maintained relation between her school culture, college
culture, home culture etc. When a person become mature than maybe
he/she feels comfortable in any condition or may be its become easy
to adjust in any condition.
These are some of the case
study that I have studied. When I was working on that I find that
maturity level of the person also played a vital role in understand
and adjustment. Sometimes it’s also create such a problem when they
go outside from their secure zone and its really become uncomfortable
for them. Sometimes they also have to suffer because of language and
culture. When no one around them try to understand they became
failure to realize their problem to others.
Society and Language both are
interwoven with each other from the ancient time. So we cannot
separate them. Whenever any language dies it’s not only death of
language but its death of the culture, death of one society, death of
one human colonialism. Today English has played such a vital role in
the death of many languages, many cultures and many colonies.
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