Simpler textbooks for English

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Bangalore: English textbooks for students in standards one to four, which have been simplified and made more student and teacher friendly, will be introduced in government schools from the next academic year.

The Director of the Regional Institute of English (RIE), South India, P. Mani, said that portions of the old textbooks, which were considered "dense" — either because they were too long or the language used was complicated — had been simplified. The texts had been rewritten by a committee constituted by the Department of State Educational Research and Training in consultation with the RIE. A survey was conducted earlier to detect areas of difficulty for teachers and students, he said.
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Prof. Mani clarified that the texts had retained the "communication-oriented approach" as in the old textbooks. English would continue to be taught as a "living language", with a degree of autonomy to teachers to choose the most appropriate methods and material, rather than as a text-driven exercise.

Source :hindu