Koul Omkar N. An Intensive Course In Kashmiri

Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 1985. — 462 p.The present intensive course in Kashmiri is meant primarily for the teacher trainees in Kashmiri at the Northern Regional Language Centre of the Central Institute of Indian Language. the centre offers an intensive training programme for non-native adult learners. The entire trading programme has a duration of 1100 clock hours. This period is divided into three stages namely Basic Course, Intermediate Course and advanced Course. The present book is intended to be used mainly in the Basic – Course stage which extends over 14 weeks and has about 450 clock hours of Instruction. The intensive course has been designed keeping in view the objectives of the course. At the end of the course the learners are able to achieve the following objectives:To perceive and reproduce the sounds and their meaningful sequences.This means (a) identification of sounds in their meaningful sequences
(b) discrimination of the sounds in their meaningful sequences, and
(c) oral reproduction of the sounds in their meaningful sequence.
To from sentences orally from given patterns and lexical items.
To converse with their teachers and fellow trainees on specified topics under controlled situations.
To narrate specified events and topics orally.
To read simple and graded passages with comprehension. This includes (a) the recognition of the letters of the alphabet in isolation and in sequence, and (b) the comprehension of passages containing simple sentences.
To write simple sentences and guided compositions on specified topics. This includes (a) the writing of the letters of the alphabet in the initial stage followed by words and sentences and (b) the writing of guided compositions on specified topics.This intensive course is meant to be used as the prescribed text along with other supplementary materials like kashmiri Phonetic Reader, State School Reader in Kashmiri Level I during the Basic Course. The first objective of the course, can be achieved by using the phonetic drills given in the Phonetic Reader. Similarly the Kashmiri script can be learnt by using the State School Reader Level I.The script is taught simultaneously with the Spoken language from the very beginning. It is expected that the learners take about 15 to 20 clock hours of instruction in learning the script. Since most of the Indian learners of Kashmiri are familiar with the Devanagri script transcription of texts of the first ten lessons has been give in the Devanagri as well using extra symbols to represent different Kashmiri sounds. The Kashmiri alphabet has been give immediately after this introduction.