Kerala is known as God's own country because of its unique geographical position && natural features and cultural diversities. It has rich culture, creative art forms, bio- diversities and many similar other features. This has to be described systematically. In this book, there is an earnest and sincere attempt to describe the cultural identities and value systems historically. Several aspects of Kerala life including Geographical Features, Pre-historical Culture, Sangam Literature, Agriculture, Western Domination, Missionaries & Education, Kerala Renaissance, Women Empowerment, Tribes, Art Forms and Beliefs, Religions, Language & Literature as well as Media of Kerala have been narrated in the book.
Rakhesh R is presently working as a Lecturer in Malayalam at SRLC, CIIL. He has written two books on Literary and Cultural Criticism. He is a recipient of Kerala Sahitya Academy Award and Thanima Award for Best Film Criticism. He has presented many papers in various national & international level seminars and conferences. He has published several articles in research journals and popular magazines.
The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) celebrates its Golden Jubilee this year after completing 50 years of excellence. The Institute was established on July 17, 1969 by the Government of India in Mysuru to help in evolving and implementing the language policy of the Government and to coordinate the development of Indian Languages by conducting research in the areas of language analysis, language pedagogy, language technology and language use in the society.
It began its journey with several units of research such as Tribal and Border Languages, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Material Production and Training, Testing and Evaluation, Educational Technology, Lexicography and Translation, Cartography, Folklore and Computer Applications. In addition to this, seven Regional Language Centres were set up at Mysuru, Patiala, Bhubaneswar, Pune, Lucknow, Solan and Guwahati with a goal of implementing the three-language formula and thereby contribute to national integration. These Centres offer a 10-month Diploma in Language Education in second languages and teach 20 Indian languages to non-native speakers mainly to in-service teachers, prospective teachers, research scholars and general public. CIIL was one of the few institutions that initiated work on natural language processing in the early 1990s. It has interdisciplinary academic collaborations with various institutions at both national and international levels. The Institute is well-recognised by the academic fraternity across the globe for the quality of its wide-ranging linguistic research and language studies.
The Kerala Land and Culture is to be used as reference material for the teacher trainees of the Southern Regional Language Center, CIIL, Mysuru. This text is to be used at the advanced stage of the ten month's Intensive Course in Malayalam. It could also be used by any learner of Malayalam at a later stage of his/her learning the language.
Studying Kerala Land and Culture at the advanced stage in a total intensive programme involves sharpening the skills already achieved at the basic and intermediate stage and also for developing the creativity in the learner. What are the priorities of learning the language at the advanced stage? It is expected that (i) the learner should be made to develop an interest in the literature of the target language, appreciate the literary works of the target language and kindle in him an urge to know more about the literary trends in the target language (ii) the learner should be made to utilize the skills already learnt at the lower levels (iii) the focus should be to exploit the thematic content and language of the material available and extend it further. For instance teaching poetry could be utilized for various purpose: (i) it could increase the learner's vocabulary, both current and archaic (ii) create sensitivity to rhyme and rhythm, which would help comprehension (iii) since poetry uses repetition and alliteration, it could be remembered very easily.
This Text consists of literary pieces from Kerala culture, which are suitably selected for the heterogeneous group of learners of Malayalam whose mother tongue could be other than Malayalam i.e, Hindi, Oriya, Telugu, Assamese, Kannada, Bengali, Tamil etc. The age appropriateness of the learners and their interest are kept in mind while selecting the articles. This book Kerala Land & Culture focuses the above objectives. It concentrates the land & culture of Kerala. The cultural diversities & specialities of Kerala have been narrated in simple language in the book.
The role of the book in teaching & learning the Land & Culture of Kerala in the advanced level at the centre will be very much valuable. This book is very much informative to research scholars and teachers who are from different parts of the country as well as abroad. This will be as very good reference book for this course. All the lessons have been tried out during various academic years and found to be satiable.
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