Online Malayalam course launched

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Malayalam Mission has

launched

an open online course which would enable Malayalis living across the globe to learn the language.


The initiave, launched in association with C-DIT, was inaugurated by culture minsiter A K Balan at the Press Club on Monday.

“The project aims to benefit non-resident Keralite children who are not aware of our culture and language. Only through mother tongue can children understand the culture. The state government has even introduced a policy to promote Malayalam language,” said Balan in his inaugural address.

The course is designed in such a way that any child in the age group of 9 to 16 years, with little understanding of Malayalam, can learn the language. The course will be conducted in different phases – listening, reading and writing. Also, the course is presented through the perspective of an expatriate’s child who is visiting her grandparents in Kerala. The programme progresses by addressing the lingual challenges she faces in her native place.

The first phase has begun. There are 13 modules in the first phase, of which seven have been published online. Each module comprises objective-type questions.

According to Malayalam Mission representatives, unavailability of any existing model and financial constraints were major issues while developing the course.

“The highlight of the initiatives of Malayalam Mission is that the teachers, who lead the classes, do it voluntarily. Though we have more than 25,000 students at our different centres, it is difficult to reach remote locations where Keralites reside. Hence the mass open online course,” said Suja Susan George, director, Malayalam Mission.

Culture department secretary Rani George released the newsletter ‘Bhoomimalayalam’ by handing over the first copy to B Shahjahan, Malayalam Mission

Gujarat

chapter president, at the function. Creative director (Malayalam Mission) Vidhu Vincent and head of department of linguistics, University of Kerala S Kunjamma also attended the function.

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