Educational Linguistics Approach as Part of LP for Teaching-Learning Tamil in the Malaysian Multilingual Context

Maruthai, Elanttamil

University of Malaya, Malaysia

ABSTRACT

Tamil, a South Dravidian language is taught as a mother tongue in the Malaysian school education – primary and secondary levels. As it is taught in the Malaysian multilingual context, it has to be planned more effectively by choosing appropriate methods of language teaching blended with modern Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) based on the innovative methods and techniques adopted for achieving required language proficiency – skill oriented and communicative competence based.

KEYWORDS

Educational Linguistic