Is our education system truly humane? Children are forced into restrictive environments, stifling their natural curiosity and creativity. Artificial methods have led to neglecting the human element in learning.
Our mission is to reimagine education that elevates the human experience and accelerates learning. We believe education should nurture the whole person – intellectually, emotionally, and socially.
Content development that resonates with human experience
Discovering innovative methods that foster natural learning
Flexible frameworks that support human-centered design
Teacher trainings that empower educators to elevate human experience
Joyful English is more than just a textbook - it's an immersive language learning journey designed with love and care. Our innovative approach combines human-centered learning principles with engaging features to make English learning a delight for children.
100% Comprehension: Every sentence is illustrated, ensuring complete understanding, even for struggling readers. Culturally Adapted for Indian Context: Contextual visuals resonate with Indian backgrounds, making learning more relatable. Concrete Vocabulary: Carefully chosen words and phrases ensure easy understanding and retention. Colour and Learn: Black and white illustrations invite children to colour and complete the lesson, fostering:
- Ownership and pride in their work
- Motivation to complete lessons
- Enhanced creativity and self-expression
Our Neuro Cognitive Framework shifts the focus from labelling children to empowering teachers. By identifying input gaps and skill deficiencies, educators can:
1 Tailor Instruction: Address specific needs
2 Monitor Progress: Track growth and adjust teaching strategies
1 Harnesses Brain Switching: Alternating between right-brain and left-brain engagement for seamless learning
2 Scaffolds Content: Building complexity effortlessly, ensuring children grasp concepts without frustration
3 Right-Brain Entry Point: Introduces content intuitively, progressing to left-brain representation
4 Gap Analysis: Pinpoints specific skill or input gaps, guiding targeted support
Our framework enables teachers to:
1 Intuitively Understand Scaffolding: Identify optimal teaching points without extensive training.
2 Identify Teaching Gaps: Recognize areas where children require additional support.
3 Focus on Skill Development: Target specific skill enhancements, rather than labelling children as "failures".
Natural Reading! Our innovative approach redefines how we engage with texts, making the process as natural as speaking and as dynamic as life itself.
Read the Way You Speak: Bid farewell to monotonous reading. With Natural Reading, you'll read the way you speak. Infuse your reading with intonation, expression, appropriate emotions, and actions, just as you do in everyday conversation, bringing the text to life.
Integral Technique: It's more than just words; it's about conveying the essence. Our approach integrates every facet of language engagement – from understanding the context to expressing it authentically. The Integral Technique ensures that reading becomes a holistic experience, engaging your mind, body, and emotions for a complete connection with the content.
Accelerated Learning: Get ready to be amazed! Natural Reading enables you to comfortably cover your reading material in regular classrooms in just 25% of the time it usually takes. That's an astonishing 4x faster reading speed.
Our Natural Reading approach follows a structured process designed to enhance your reading experience:
Comprehension and Engagement: We begin by immersing you in the text, fostering deep comprehension and engagement with the content. The foundation for a holistic reading experience is laid by harmonizing language comprehension with authentic expression.
Emphasis on Natural Reading: We guide you through reading with a focus on natural intonation, expression, and understanding. The reading process mirrors a fluid conversation, making it an enjoyable and effective learning journey.
You might be curious about the tangible benefits of Natural Reading.
visible Growth: In just a 30-minute session of Natural Reading, the impact is tangible. After a single session, you'll notice heightened engagement, depth of understanding, and a more expressive reading experience. But for transformation, rigour is needed.
Holistic Improvement: Consistent practice with Natural Reading leads to comprehensive development in reading, speaking, and even writing.
Comprehensive Understanding: Grasp the entire essence of a text, comprehending its nuances and details with ease.
Effortless Reading: Reading in the target language becomes a breeze, as the technique reinforces natural language patterns.
Enhanced Expression: Your ability to convey the text's meaning with precise expression, intonation, and body language will remarkably improve.
Deeper Retention: Integrating the natural reading technique, a whole-brain approach, forges stronger connections with the material, resulting in enhanced retention and recall. The content becomes ingrained in your memory like never before.
Witness Impressive Progress: In as little as three months, our approach has led to an average of 200% improvement in children's reading fluency when implemented in schools.
"Read Naturally, Express Authentically, Unleash Fluency!"
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Introducing: CI Storytelling Approach - Accelerated Language Learning and Joyful Fluency. Our dedicated team has meticulously crafted an innovative approach to language acquisition that guarantees rapid progress while keeping the joy of learning intact.
Igniting Intrinsic Motivation: Bid farewell to monotony and demotivation! Our approach naturally sparks a deep-rooted desire to learn a language, making the process enjoyable and engaging.
Holistic Learning Technique: Language learning is not just about memorizing phrases; it's about embracing the entirety of the language. Our method engages your mind, body, and heart, creating a comprehensive and lasting learning experience.
Fluency in No Time: Brace yourself for a transformative journey! Our approach is meticulously designed to fast-track your language learning journey, making you fluent in record time.
Our CI Story Telling Approach follows a well-defined process that gradually builds your language proficiency:
Comprehension and Bi-lingual Conversation: We start by immersing you in a rich linguistic environment, fostering comprehension and improving your ability to engage in bilingual conversations.
Registering and Anchoring: As it progresses, the contextualized vocabulary is embedded in the long-term memory with proper anchors to retain them.
Eliciting Techniques: Our approach incorporates various eliciting techniques to smoothen the Brain switching process and to enhance your language learning experience further, ensuring a comprehensive grasp of the language.
You might be wondering, what can you achieve in just 30 minutes using our CI Story Telling Approach?
Comprehensive Comprehension: You'll be able to understand an entire story in a foreign language, thanks to the immersive nature of our technique.
Effortless Reading: Reading the story in the target language will become a breeze, as our approach emphasizes natural reading skills development.
Natural Recitation: With minimal elicitation, you'll find yourself effortlessly reciting the story in the target language, boosting your speaking abilities.
The results are so convincing that you'll be assured of its efficacy. However, mastering this approach as a teacher will require dedication and effort, as with any innovative teaching method.
The success stories of students who embraced the CI Approach are awe-inspiring. Even individuals with no prior knowledge of Hindi achieved remarkable results. With just 120 hours of instruction, students excelled in the Prathamica exam, achieving an average score of 75% with only 4 hours of preparation.
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The Joyful Listening Approach you are developing is a powerful way to engage students in language learning, fostering both comprehension and intrinsic motivation. Here's an elaboration of the approach and its benefits:
Comprehensible Input is the foundation of your approach. It hinges on the idea that learners acquire language when they are exposed to language that is just beyond their current level but still understandable through context, gestures, tone, and visual aids. This is particularly beneficial for rural Indian children, as it creates a natural, low-pressure environment for language acquisition.
This is about giving instructions in English in a way that students can understand through demonstration or contextual clues. Within this, various techniques keep learning engaging and interactive:
Rhymes are rhythmic and repetitive, which helps embed language patterns in young learners. In this Method, teachers present rhymes in a way that is easily interpretable, using gestures or contextual clues, allowing students to construct the meaning themselves. This meaning-making process helps in memory retention and language development.
When explaining processes (like steps for a science experiment or a recipe), enables students to piece together the meaning of each step. Instead of being told exactly what each phrase means, they predict or guess based on the teacher’s cues. This encourages active engagement and problem-solving, stimulating their cognitive growth.
Storytelling offers rich context for language learning. Through comprehensible stories, students can infer meanings from context and build language competence. The intrinsic motivation here lies in the natural curiosity and satisfaction derived from understanding the plot.
The success of this method hinges on the teacher’s input. If students misunderstand, the teacher adjusts the input (slower speech, more gestures, additional context) rather than correcting the child directly. This removes the pressure on the child, creating a safe space for exploration and learning.
Inspired by this philosophy, the focus is on creating an environment where students are encouraged to interpret and guess. They take ownership of the learning process by making educated guesses, which are naturally rewarded when they succeed. This method leverages the brain's natural desire to solve puzzles, thereby:
As the teacher refines their ability to give clearer, more understandable input, they grow in their ability to communicate effectively with beginners. The iterative process of adjusting to the students' needs makes teachers more conscious of their delivery, enhancing their skills in language instruction.
This method combines the best aspects of Comprehensible Input theory with the natural curiosity and learning capacity of children, particularly in contexts like rural India, where traditional language instruction may not always be effective. By focusing on meaning-making and student-centered learning, the, Joyful Listening Approach creates a vibrant, dynamic classroom environment that fosters both language acquisition and love for learning.
Following are the methods developed by Language Research Lab for development of Reading skills in children.
Joyful Phonics is an innovative, child-centered approach to teaching phonics. Our method recognizes that phonics instruction is not a one-size-fits-all solution and focuses on supporting students who struggle with decoding and blending.
1. Targeted Instruction: Phonics instruction is tailored to students who require support, avoiding unnecessary instruction for those who already decode and blend comfortably.
2. Sub-Skills: We develop Decoding, blending, and predicting sub-skills in a more heartful way, assuming prior knowledge of letters and sounds.
3. Prior Familiarity: Students should have sufficient listening familiarity with words before applying phonics skills
Our predictive reading approach empowers learners to anticipate and recognize words, fostering fluent and engaged reading.
1. Familiarization: Learners thoroughly comprehend the text, rhyme, story, or procedure.
2. Fluency Development: Muscle memory and practice develop fluency and accuracy.
3. Prediction: Learners predict words, developing anticipation skills.
4. Reinforcement: Prediction skills are reinforced through games, activities, and discussions.
Key Benefits:To Foster motivation and confidence in reading through a supportive library environment.
To Equip learners with practical reading skills for everyday situations.
1. Functional Reading: Focus on reading for purpose and application
2. Real-World Texts: Incorporate authentic materials, such as:
Unlock Fluent and Engaging Reading
Once learners master basic sight word reading and blending at Level 1, Natural Reading propels them to higher levels, integrating body, mind, and heart.
Key Features:
Enhance comprehension, retention, and critical thinking skills through visual mapping of academic texts.
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Traditional reading programs often focus on surface-level strategies(phonics, read alouds and reader's theatre etc) without addressing the underlying biological and cognitive factors that hinder reading development.
The Power of Digging Deeper
Our research-based initiative takes a pioneering approach by digging deeper to identify and address the root causes of reading difficulties. By exploring the complex interplay between neurodevelopmental factors, cognitive processes, vision, and processing disorders, we can:
- Uncover hidden barriers to reading success
- Develop targeted interventions that address individual needs
- Unlock more effective and sustainable reading improvement
"In reality, without effective listening, learning is a matter of chance".
Listening is the first form of communication that children acquire. According to Hyslop and Tone (1988), listening provides a foundation for all aspects of language and cognitive development for life-long learning. While students spend the majority of the school day using listening skills to acquire knowledge, research by Johnson and Smith (2010) suggests that many educators fail to provide formal listening instruction, assuming children inherently know how to listen. This lack of awareness of the listening process may result in lowered achievement and increased frustration. As Swanson (1996, p. 3) notes, "In reality, without effective listening, learning is a matter of chance." The National Listening Association (NLA, 2022) emphasizes the importance of integrating explicit listening instruction into educational curricula across all grade levels.
“Hearing is a sense; listening is a learned behavior that must be nurtured.”
The ability to listen effectively affects a student’s achievement in school, and contributes to success later in life. Even though some students master basic listening skills, researchers argue that listening skills must be taught, practiced, and improved (Mead & Rubin, 1985).
Children truly want to be “good.” In order to “stay alert” where there has been inadequate vestibular development, they must move, wiggle and constantly turn their heads. Often this is precisely how they first get tagged with the ADD, Hyperactive or ADHD labels. Teachers become frustrated with their constant movement and tell them to “sit still.” Wanting to stay alert, the children’s next strategy is to activate their balance centers by tilting their chairs so that only the back two legs of the chair are supporting them. The teacher’s response is to demand that they “sit up right and pay attention.” But this is a contradiction for these children. If their heads and bodies are still, there will be reduced activation of their brains. These children are also the ones asked to stay in during recess to complete work — when the best thing for them would to go outside and move
Investigate, Identify and implementation of micro-interventions and integrative movements for accelerated Learning outcomes in Regular Schools:
Abstract: This research project explores the intricate relationship between motor movement, cognition, and its impact on learning and understanding. By investigating the connection between these domains, we seek to uncover deeper insights into how physical movements, cognitive processes, and language development interact and influence learning outcomes. This project aims to contribute to the existing body of knowledge in this field and provide valuable implications for educational practices.
Expected Outcomes:
• Gain insights into how motor movements contribute to cognitive processes involved in language acquisition.
• Identify the specific role of motor skills in different aspects of language development, including phonological awareness, vocabulary acquisition, and grammar skills.
• Discover the potential benefits of incorporating physical writing, gesture, and embodied learning strategies in language instruction.
• Provide implications for educational practices and interventions to optimize language learning and comprehension through the integration of motor movements and cognitive processes.
Implications and Future Directions:
• Implications for educational practices: Discussing how educators can leverage motor movements to enhance language acquisition, cognition, and learning in instructional settings.
Research Question: How can educational interventions harness the synergy between focus and joy to minimize affective filters, enhance engagement, and optimize academic achievement?
Background: Research suggests that joyful focus, characterized by the convergence of attention and positive emotions, is crucial for optimal learning outcomes. However, traditional educational approaches often prioritize focus over joy, potentially leading to decreased motivation and increased affective filters.
Intervention Design: Develop and evaluate educational interventions that integrate joy-inducing activities with focus-enhancing strategies.
1 Affective Filter Reduction: Examine the impact of joyful focus on reducing anxiety, stress, and other affective filters.
2 Academic Outcomes: Assess the relationship between joyful focus and improved academic achievement, including grades, retention, and transfer of learning.
3 Individual Differences: Explore how personality traits, learning styles, and cultural background influence the effectiveness of joyful focus interventions.
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At center for accelerated language Acquisition (CALA), we believe that true education unfolds when innate curiosity in children is nurtured and transformed into a joyful exploration. And also we believe, Children are not made for serious syllabus completion missions with deadlines.
At center for accelerated language Acquisition (CALA), we reimagine education by putting children at the forefront. By listening attentively to their needs and observing their unique learning patterns, we develop scalable teaching (facilitating) models. This approach has led to the development of innovative techniques in Joyful English, achieving remarkable outcomes.
Our teachers undergo a transformative journey, shifting from instructors to facilitators, prioritizing understanding over instruction.
Once the passion for learning is ignited in teachers and children, they become truly lifelong learners. But how do we ignite this passion?
Welcome to our Center for inspired Teaching where we demystify research and make knowledge accessible to all. Our mission is to bridge the gap between research and practice, providing actionable insights for informed decision-making.
Teachers: Informing instruction and improving outcomes
Students: Enhancing learning and academic success
Parents: Making informed choices for their children's education
Educators: Staying updated on best practices and research-based methods
Management and Policy Makers: Data-driven decision-making for policy and practice
- Collaborate with local organizations and stakeholders
- Provide training and capacity-building programs
- Offer resources and support for language education