The method allows students to conceptually explore their knowledge of a new word by mapping it with other related words or phrases that are similar in meaning to the selected word. She came up with a strategy - Semantic Mapping - that could help hone the reading and comprehension skills of students. The 39-year-old DIET lecturer had a Herculean task at hand - quelling the fear factor. The fear of language has brought down their confidence level and made them think they could never perform well,” she points out. ![]() “Despite being talented and having a strong base, they are unable to perform well in a reading comprehension exam. When the children of Class 6 of a government school in Sivaganga were asked to read a topic from books, Usha was shocked to see their lack of reading sub-skills such as comprehension and summarising. ![]() Post the Covid-induced lockdown, during her visit to several government schools, it dawned upon S Usha, a lecturer at the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), that most students are under the grip of Xenoglossophobia, the fear of learning English and other foreign languages. More than two decades and many a challenge have flown by.
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