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The ability to read with ease and to understand the meaning of sentences is essential for students. India has 22 official languages which are spoken in the various states. Children of migrant laborers face the task of adapting to a different language other than their mother tongue, which is an uphill task. The absence of structured language learning materials and affordable inter-language dictionaries results in a knowledge gap and adversely affects the academic performance. Online education adopted by schools, due to recent pandemic or other natural disasters, add to difficulties. To mitigate these effects, construction of curriculum based language learning materials is proposed. Currently, the learning resources aligned to the curriculum, to mitigate language barrier, are not available for student use. Due to the widespread use of smartphones, a majority of students are familiar with the use of web-browser, online navigation, playing videos, and listening to audio clips. Since the textbooks are available online, learning resources that require knowledge of basic phone use can be designed and created. Construction of highlighted reading videos of textbook chapters, glossary and language dictionary for chapters for vocabulary building, audios, concept maps, interactive simulation, and learning games is proposed. Short videos were created on creating glossary, language-dictionary and online thesaurus, which can be practiced side-by-side by the learner. This can be achieved with the existing technology of computers or smartphones and 4G data.
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This work was supported by the grant to Prof. K. Mougdalya, IIT-Bombay, from MHRD, Government of India.
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1. Video1.ogv: This is an illustrative text highlighted video guide to aid students in reading the textbook material.Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bUKJovp8Hm-eOo7K5Y_Rw2q-aaCwvFkX/view?usp=sharing
2. Video2.ogv: Short video to practice side-by-side to make a language dictionary. Link:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WOUo_Bex04jzfU6gizDVw1hGd0cAy8Z4/view?usp=sharing
3. Video3.ogv: Short video to practice side-by-side. This video aids to create glossary (wordlist) and thesaurus from text, using the websites, https://worditout.com/ and https://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/. Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-qtxfYFQXL15UD3l41O7WFW1vj5-ZUlE/view?usp=sharing
4. Video4.ogv: Illustrative example for visual language study by using a picture that can be shared with students. English, Hindi, and Tamil languages are used for illustration. Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TPabpc70kDfF6Lw4dz3ONofloUDThTyU/view?usp=sharing
5. Video5.mp4: Highlighted video of Bang the Drum poem from the Class IX Keala State board English textbook. Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LIr0_7wE_cTmlRzCgCjtCv-OEBS9kP9W/view?usp=sharing
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Venkitakrishnan, R.P. (2021). Curriculum Based Accessible Learning for Schools Using ICT Methods. In: Auer, M.E., Centea, D. (eds) Visions and Concepts for Education 4.0. ICBL 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1314. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67209-6_3
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