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NCERT Plans New Course To Train Teachers To Teach Multiple Languages
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News18•19-10-2026, 14:42
NCERT Plans New Course To Train Teachers To Teach Multiple Languages
- •NCERT is developing a new multilingual education programme under the NEP 2020 framework to train educators to teach multiple languages.
- •The initiative centres around a proposed Master's programme in Multilingual Education specialising in applied linguistics and multilingual pedagogy.
- •The model aims to help schools offer a wider range of regional and foreign languages without needing a separate teacher for each language.
- •The curriculum will focus on the science and practice of language learning, covering grammar, phonetics, and teaching methods rather than just literary studies.
- •This academic expansion follows NCERT's transition to an Institution Deemed to be University, granting it autonomy to design and confer its own specialised degrees.
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NCERT is developing a Master’s programme in Multilingual Education to train educators to teach multiple regional and foreign languages. This initiative aims to prepare a new cadre of teachers specializing in applied linguistics and multilingual pedagogy.
Conventional teacher training focuses on individual languages and literary studies like poetry and drama, whereas the proposed model emphasizes applied linguistics, grammar acquisition, phonetics, and classroom pedagogy for multiple languages.
The Ministry of Education granted NCERT 'Institution deemed to be University' status under a distinct category, giving it academic autonomy to design specialised programmes and confer its own degrees.
