Translanguaging as an Effective Approach for Implementing NEP 2020

Abstract

 Languages are 'caught‘ not 'taught‘. A child learns to speak and communicate by 
merely observing the adults who talk around them. The key aspect of Fundamental Literacy is 
that the child must read with understanding and not mere reading as per NIPUN Bharat 
initiative towards achieving the NEP 2020 goal of FLN by 2025.In a diversified country like 
India where English is the common language spoken in the entire country, regional languages 
play an important role in the education system. As per NEP guidelines, education can be in the 
mother tongue up to the eighth grade along with two more languages. Children‘s thinking 
process is in their first language which they translate to the medium of their education for the 
purpose of evaluation. Adopting two languages in the print material and teaching process to 
enhance the critical thinking and problem-solving approach of the learner is the first step 
towards implementing three language systems.