LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 22:3 March 2022
ISSN 1930-2940

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Effect of Covid-19 Lockdown on the Learning and Teaching of Languages:
An Analysis

Sajad Ahmad Teli, Shahbaz Ahmad Khan and Mudasir Mushtaq Pir

Abstract

The Covid- 19 lockdown affected almost all the sectors of education and one of the worst sections was the teaching and learning of languages. Language is the most beautiful capacity bestowed by God to humans and it is the quest of every individual to learn more and more languages in order to communicate and understand the different people and different cultures of world. Language learning happens in the natural environment and when a child is given the opportunity to communicate in the natural environment, he/she is able to learn that language with full proficiency. This was not possible in the online mode of learning and teaching and the result was that students faced a lot of problems in the learning of different languages. Although there are many online Apps and tools which help the students to learn the different languages of the world but still there are many problems and challenges which the teachers and students face during the teaching and learning of languages. The present paper is intended to analyse all the issues in the learning and teaching of languages and how the Covid-19 lockdown affected the learning and teaching of languages.

Keywords: Covid-19 Lockdown, Languages, Teaching, Learning, Effects

1. Introduction

Covid-19 halted the function of all the institutions and organisations of the world and teaching and learning domain was not an exception to it. All the educational institutions were immediately closed after the spread of Covid- 19 in order to stop this deadly pandemic. There was not so much time available to countries to go through the planned way because it took very less time for the spread of this virus and within no time corona-lockdown was declared in all the countries.

Education of children is must and in the absence of good education a society can’t achieve new heights and produce civilised citizens. It was a challenge especially for the underdeveloped countries to find an alternative approach to teach students from their homes without coming to school.

Many softwares and hardware companies of international, national, and local importance came for the rescue of educational institutions and offered their services and different platforms in order to continue the teaching and learning process virtually without attending the schools in physical mode.

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Sajad Ahmad Teli
Research Scholar, Department of Linguistics
University of Kashmir, Srinagar
Sajadteli13@gmail.com

Shahbaz Ahmad Khan
Research Scholar, Department of Kashmiri
University of Kashmir, Srinagar
Shahbazhamid121@gmail.com

Mudasir Mushtaq Pir
Research Scholar, Department of Linguistics
University of Kashmir, Srinagar
Mudasirm.scholar@kashmiruniversity.net
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