Friday, May 25, 2012
An intensive course in Manipuri editors, B. Syamala Kumari, N. Pramodini.
Manipuri is one of the scheduled languages of India. The outcome of a series of
workshops, the volume presents a total of 60 lessons, meant primarily for the
Manipuri teacher trainees who were not acquainted with the language earlier,
which constitute the Basic Course of learning Manipuri in the North East
Regional Language Centre, Guwahati of the Central Institute of Indian Languages.
The Basic Course is a three-phase ten-month course of 1100 hours of instruction.
The Basic Course is intended to help readers perceive and reproduce sounds and
their meaningful sequences, form sentences orally from given patterns and
lexical items, narrate specific events orally, and converse with the teachers
and fellow trainees on specific topics.
The lessons in the book comprise dialogue, drills, exercises, vocabulary and
notes. The language variety used for the dialogues and other purposes is the
standard colloquial as spoken by educated Manipuris in the valley districts of
Manipur. Some of the lessons in the book are provided with literature on
Parivardhit Devanagari using extra symbols to represent the different Manipuri
sounds.
To make the teaching much more relevant, the work contains characters and situations that are not typical of the Manipur environment and context but are essentially relevant to the use of Manipuri language by the adult second language learners. Though the book is the prescribed text for the Basic Course phase of learning Manipuri, it may also be used for any generalised second language programme in Manipuri by adult learners and their teachers. Read More
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