期刊名称：Researchers World - Journal of Arts Science & Commerce
印刷版ISSN：2229-4686
电子版ISSN：2229-4686
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：136-141
出版社：Educational Research Multimedia & Publication
摘要：As an Associate Professor of Psychology in a well known institution has interesting observation that students coming from the schools of vernacular language experiences psychological disturbance ad find themselves difficult to get adjusted to English medium college. Further it is also noted that a student coming from vernacular language feels shy, nervous, less well mannered, underachievers, and gets easily distracted which in turn gets affected on their overall personality characteristics. Whereas students coming from English medium schools, is well behaved, disciplined, bold and gets adjusted very well with over all atmosphere of the institution as a part of life. This observation awakened the interest and focused on students attitude related to the English and vernacular language as a medium of instruction in secondary school Here investigation centers around the medium of instruction in school affects the attitude of the students studying in it.In all 360 students participated in the study. Out of which 180 students were from English medium and 180 students were from Vernacular medium which was chosen sample. The questionnaire-cum-attitude scale was used to collect the quantitative data and an informal interview was used to collect qualitative data. Results show that there was significant difference between the attitudes of students from both medium schools.
关键词：Attitude; psychology; vernacular and English Medium; var currentpos;timer; function initialize() { timer=setInterval("scrollwindow()";10);} function sc(){clearInterval(timer); }function scrollwindow() { currentpos=document.body.scrollTop; window.scroll(0;++currentpos); if (currentpos != document.body.scrollTop) sc();} document.onmousedown=scdocument.ondblclick=initializeJournal of Arts; Science & Commerce ;¡ö;E-ISSN 2229-4686 ;¡ö;ISSN 2231-4172;International Refereed Research Journal ¡ö ;w;w;w;w;w;.;.;r;r;e;s;e;e;a;a;r;r;c;c;h;h;e;r;r;s;w;w;o;o;r;r;l;l;d;.;.;c;c;o;o;m;m ¡ö Vol.¨C III; Issue ¨C1;Jan. 2012 [137] ;INTRODUCTION:;As an Associate Professor of Psychology in a well known institution has interesting observation that students ;coming from the schools of vernacular language experience psychological disturbance and find it difficult to ;adjust to English medium colleges. Further; it is also noted that students coming from vernacular language feel ;diffident and nervous. They experience inferiority complex and get easily distracted; which in turn gets ;reflected on their overall personality. Most of the time; these students were found to be underachievers. On the ;other hand; the students coming from English medium schools generally were well behaved; disciplined; and ;bold. They easily get adjusted to the overall atmosphere of the institution. This observation awakened the ;interest of the researcher and so decided to focus on the attitude of the students coming from English Medium ;schools and Vernacular Medium schools. The present investigation centers Attitude of the students related to ;Medium of Instruction: vernacular and English. ;English is the most widely used language in the world. The significant aspect of English is its unprecedented ;distribution. It is the first language of countries like the United Kingdom; the United States of America; New ;Zealand; Australia and Canada. It is no longer the native language of these particular countries. By accidents of ;history and by rapid spread of industrial development; science; technology; international trade and by the ;explosion in the speed and ease of travel and by all the factors which have broken down frontiers and forced ;nations into closer interdependence; English has become the Langua Franca of the world. ;IMPORTANCE OF ENGLISH IN INDIA : ;English is now taught as the 'second language' in schools in nearly every country in the world. In India; ;English was introduced by the British with the introduction of the east India Company in 1600. The Christian ;missionaries further popularized the use of English. Their network of English medium schools had a great ;impact and still continues. The decision of the British government to make English the official medium of ;education made English an important language. Before the introduction of English in India; each princely state ;had its own policy about the language of education. Hindi; Urdu; Sanskrit; Marathi and Persian were the ;languages of wider communication. But the introduction of Lord Macaulay's Minute in 1835 changed the whole ;scene. Lord Macaulay's Minute led to the use of English as the language of education in India during the British ;rule. Though the minute was criticized; still many Indian states have in fact sustained Macaulay's programme. ;In 1857 the three English medium universities of Bombay; Calcutta and Madras were founded. With the coming ;up of these universities; the new educational policy emphasized the use of vernacular languages and also ;indicated that English should be taught only where there was a demand for it. But still English continued as an ;important component of education; administration and law. It was also used for personal use among the elite ;class. The impact of English did not decrease even after the departure of the British. ;When India became independent; it was decided that Hindi would be the official language. But in1965; the ;Indian government had to assure the people that English would continue to be used for official purposes. This ;decision was taken because Hindi was not accepted as our national language as expected. So today English is ;the associate language along with Hindi. At present the use of English in India; which started as a 'historico-;political accident'; has now become an economic and academic reality. English is no longer a foreign language ;for Indians. At present English is the official language of north-eastern states of Manipur; Meghalaya; Nagaland; ;Tripura and Mizoram. English is the official language of the union territories i.e. Andaman and Nicobar; ;Chandigarh; Dadra and Nagar Haveli; Delhi; Lakshwadweep; Daman and Diu and Pondicherry. For various ;historical reasons; English is an accepted language. ;English along with vernacular languages is used in the legal system; regional administration in the armed forces; ;the national business at home and also in mass media. ;REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE: ;There are several reasons to study students' attitudes as they are important and also use of vernacular language ;has psychological impact on students behavior; perception and also academic achievement. Following few ;studies support the investigation related to students attitude and use of language: English and vernacular;The ;review of related literature focus on studies related to students attitude towards teachers; gender differences and ;studies related to English and vernacular languages.Students' attitude towards school and their expectations ;about the behavior of the teacher are also important factors in learning process. ;Narsimha Reddy studied academic interaction in education setting in which he included topic like attitude of ;students towards school; subject teachers and studies which are determinants of academic success. These ;attitudes either help or retard the progress of a student. He found that: ;1. 83.28% of the students have positive attitude towards the school while remaining 16.72% shows negative attitude.
