Assam Higher Secondary Tai Language case studies
Assam Higher Secondary Tai Language · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Tai is a Southwestern Tai language spoken by Tai-speaking communities in Assam, and it is offered as a second-language subject at the Higher Secondary stage under the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC). This credential records that a candidate can read and write the Tai script used in Assam, pronounce and hear its tones, build correct sentences, understand prose and poetry, translate between Tai and the language of instruction, and discuss the literature and heritage of Assam's Tai communities. The Assam Higher Secondary Tai Language case studies are 5 cases and about 4,187 words.
1Nine flags on the wall-magazine entries
At a higher secondary school in eastern Assam, 22 handwritten entries are being readied for the script section of the school's Tai language week. The writers come from Classes IX to XII and from three different home varieties; the only script authority the school owns is the prescribed primer, whose chart and word list are pinned in the classroom.
897 words, about 4 min2Which pronunciation does the class recite in?
Eighteen students of Classes IX and XI are preparing a twelve-line poem for choral recitation at the school's Tai language week, ten days away. Roughly half speak one home variety and half another.
840 words, about 4 min3Reading the marks in a translation section
Ten Assamese sentences were set for translation into Tai, two marks each, in the half-yearly paper. In a class of 34 the section average is 9.4 out of 20.
765 words, about 4 min4Two readings of the third line
The Class XII prose-and-poetry unit ends with a six-line poem printed with a glossary. The glossary gives one sense for a word that students also know in a more concrete, everyday sense.
835 words, about 4 min5Finalising the bilingual notice in one meeting
The school hosts an inter-school Tai language and culture meet on 14 February: six schools, about 140 participants, four events (recitation, handwriting, quiz, folk song), one guest of honour who is a community elder, and a registration desk. A one-page notice must go out in Tai and in English, roughly 150 words on each side, and it must be printed tomorrow.
850 words, about 4 min