The document summarizes key recommendations from the National Curriculum Framework 2005 on language learning in India. It recommends an integrated approach to teaching language skills like listening, speaking, reading and writing. It also recommends focusing on real-life tasks that improve these skills. Additionally, it advocates for a language-across-the-curriculum approach and integrating other subjects like environmental studies with language learning in early grades. The framework also emphasizes developing cultural sensitivity and using activities like discussions and projects to promote reading comprehension.

1. Recommendations from NCERT on Language Learning Curriculum 2005

2. National Curriculum Framework…2005 Language Learning

4. Guideline 1 – NCF 2005 recommends that ….. ‘ Language learning is essentially a matter of acquiring the important skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in an integrated manner, and harnessing these skills to the performance of formal as well as informal communication tasks.’

5. The speaking tasks provide ample opportunities for real-life discussions The listening tasks improve the concentration skills. Listening tasks comprise listening for meaning and listening for a purpose

6. The writing tasks involve learners in meaningful composition tasks, the guidance for which evolve from the main theme of the reading text Dictionary skills help learners learn increase their knowledge of English and realize that dictionary is a resource book that ought to be used actively at the heart of a language course

7. Guideline 2 - NCF 2005 recommends that…….. In language learning, stress should be on ‘language-across-the-curriculum approach’ that breaks down barriers between English and other languages and subject areas In classes I and II focus should be on EVS components integrated with language with further integration of key environmental, social and arithmetical concepts in the primary classes

8. Guideline 3 - NCF 2005 recommends that…….. The learner should be able to develop sensitivity towards their culture and heritage, aspects of contemporary life and languages in and around the classroom

9. Guideline 4 - NCF 2005 recommends that…….. Suitable focus to be given on discussions, project work, activities that promote reading with comprehension…