Time for a change
The Hindu
Assessments for English should be designed differently from that of other subjects since the focus is on competency in language
An obsessive concern caused by the disrupted academic year has been the conduct of the summative exams and the declaration of results. Students of Class 12 and the final semester of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes were traumatised by the ensuing uncertainty. Divergent views have been expressed to resolve the conundrum and one suggestion was to do away with language exams and conduct only subject exams. As a language teacher, I fail to understand why language exams are equated with subject ones. There is hardly any difference in the modes and tools of assessment. The question paper pattern in the same — short answer, paragraph and essay questions — and the duration is also three hours. The way the curriculum is translated into practice also does not differ. While this has been ignored so far, the pandemic has highlighted this fallacy, which needs to be resolved.More Related News