English has become the second largest medium in India's primary schools after Hindi. In year 2006, it was fourth behind Marathi and Bengali.
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
NCERT studies mood of kids
NCERT is conducting a unique study to gauge the student's emotions in schools.
Students were asked to write critical incidents of their school life: one positive and one negative. Then there were incomplete sentences that children were asked to complete. These sentences ran thus: Going to school makes me ---, What I like myself as a student is ---, What I don't like myself as a student is ---, While learning in school I feel pressurised when ---, I do not like teachers who ---, I like the teacher when ---.
Results showed that three key emotions common in class VII, IX and XI were happy, good and interested. Three negative emotions were boring, sad and do not like.
For details: timesofindia
Students were asked to write critical incidents of their school life: one positive and one negative. Then there were incomplete sentences that children were asked to complete. These sentences ran thus: Going to school makes me ---, What I like myself as a student is ---, What I don't like myself as a student is ---, While learning in school I feel pressurised when ---, I do not like teachers who ---, I like the teacher when ---.
Results showed that three key emotions common in class VII, IX and XI were happy, good and interested. Three negative emotions were boring, sad and do not like.
For details: timesofindia
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