Bridging Local Dialects and New Languages: Effective Approaches

In multilingualism setting with local dialect as home language, the use of varied strategies is initially required to affect smooth transition to new languages. Subsequent to paper acceptance on transition from local dialect to English for an international conference on language teaching in Thailand, (see inset clipping) an AI prompt ‘"dr lalit kishore educator and researcher on 'transition from home language to school language' (Google, 2026; August 26,  (   https://www.google.com/search?q=dr+lalit+kishore+educator+and+researcher+on+%27transition+from+home+language+to+school+language%27&oq ) revealed, "Dr. Lalit Kishore is a Jaipur-based educator and researcher who pioneered intervention models for the transition from children's home languages to formal school languages.." Dr kishore has used padding strategy with micro-pems and billigual flash cards to build initial vocabulary of a new language to affect transition.

Core work and contributions for language transition of Kishore are as follows

• Project 'Pehchan': Spearheaded an initiative through the Centre for Unfolding Learning Potentials (CULP) in Jaipur to reconnect out-of-school rural and marginalized children with formal education through padded micro-poems in local dialect.

• Localized Teaching Aids: Avoided forcing standard Hindi textbooks initially; instead, educators used customized handbooks, storybooks, and poem posters in local dialects.

• Use of "Big Books": Promotes oversized, visually engaging reading material to recreate a cozy, home-style shared reading environment in early childhood classrooms.

• Teacher Resource Units: Trained rural educators to build empathetic, culturally familiar learning bridges into standard school curricula.

Dr Inshore has also done an ERIC research  project for the NCERT on language transition of rural children from Dundari to standard Hinhi in Chaksu and Niwai blocks of Jaipur.

Details of the Eric Project are as follows (Google 2026, August 25, https://www.google.com/search?q=+lalit+kishore+ERIC+project+list+of+NCERT&sca_esv )

Dr. Lalit Kishore's micro-project supported under the NCERT Educational Research and Innovation Committee (ERIC) scheme focuses on language transition.

• Project Topic: A case study on language transition from local dialect or home language to school language.Support

• System: Funded and backed as a micro-project via the ERIC scheme of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).Associated

• Context: The framework was tied to bridge-school interventions and early-primary learning strategies in conjunction with field efforts by NGOs like CULP in Rajasthan.

  In Summary

  Kishore (2026) advocates for leveraging students' native dialects as foundational for language transition Schools and teachers must emotionally secure bridge to acquiring new languages. He highlights the importance of a gradual transition, utilizing multimodal activities and regional speech and micro-poems with padding as stepping stones toward formal school language proficiency.

  
  

  Reference for citation

  Kishore, L. (2026, August 25). Bridging local dialects and new languages: Effective approaches. Lalit CULP, https://lalitculp.wixsite.com/website/post/bridging-local-dialects-and-new-languages-effective-approaches