Reading Problems for Tribal Children in Learning Tamil - A Sociolinguistic Study

Abstract

The study focused mainly on developing Reading skills among the tribal children a Sociolinguistic aspect. In the past years, many linguists, psychologists, and educationalists have been involved in the area of language learning and language teaching. Still, this research study mainly concerned a sociolinguistic point of view. Different branches of sociolinguistics have had a considerable impact on language teaching. Therefore, this research explores an Error Analysis and language teaching and learning, particularly for Tribal children. Finally, this research argues that the most important role of sociolinguistics in language teaching is to provide the learners with the appropriate rules based on reading skills to raise their sociolinguistics awareness. The main problem they face is the interference of their mother tongue, secondly, more psycholinguistic problems; thirdly, the untrained teachers face challenges; fourthly, the impact of technology to electrify their learning; fifthly, after the analysis of the errors committed by them and drafting of a remedial course for them, sixthly, their socio-cultural aspects interfering in their learning. This study aims to test and evaluate the achievements in Tamil Reading skills of primary schools of the tribal in Kallakkurichi District, Namakkal District, and Salem District in Tamil Nadu, India. Government Tribal Residential schools have been covered for the present study.