Transparency in Language to Enhance Student Learning: Adaptation of TILT to the Indian Context

Background

The teaching-learning process is the system where continuous learning and transfer of learning happens from the teachers to the students. While we speak of transparency in the teaching-learning process, one often mises the crucial factor that the language of instruction brings about transparency to the entire process of student learning. With the classes becoming multicultural, utilizing different instructional languages in the teaching pedagogy can become a helping hand for students to achieve the desired goals. The teachers and students use language to discuss, complete tasks, assess knowledge, develop skills and make the classroom interactive and lively. It is the language through which one thinks and acts while communicating and absorbing learning. Language is the base to determine the creator of the knowledge, the intended person and the problems it seeks to address. Thus, talking about pedagogy without touching upon the linguistic concerns may not be complete.