Inter Cultural House English Debate 2023

New Education Policy About Teaching In Mother Tongue Will Imporve The Teaching Learning Process
Managing India’s swelling demands of cultural diversity – rooted in the history of India and heightened by globalization – in a democratic manner has become contentious in recent years. In education it has come as a big debate whether teaching in mother tongue will improve the teaching learning process or will increase hurdles in the teaching learning process. Keeping this in the heart of the topic, an inter-cultural debate in English was organized at 7 pm in the Senior School Assembly area on 27 August 2023. The debate formatted in adapted Cambridge style and judged by the English department head and a faculty of the department was presided over by the principal and vice principal of the school. Faculty members too stood by the competition and took interest in knowing the ideas and opinions of the participants. All the participants were well prepared but some parts of some of the participants’ content loosely bound together made the other participants have edge over their counter parts and this difference finally resulted into some houses scoring better and getting positions of their expectations. Aravali House edged over Nilgiri House by standing first in position whereas the Nilgiri House had to satisfy with second position. Remaining two other houses VIndhyanchal House and Himalaya House shared the third position. Principal’s address centred on the extrapolative nature of the topic and shared his opinion on it. With the announcement of the result by the principal and proposal of vote of thanks by an English faculty, the debate competition took a long pause to breathe again the next year.