Exploring the Impact of Teaching French as an Enrichment Program to Primary School Students of Municipal Corporation of Delhi for Academic Session 2023-24

Abstract

Students of the Primary schools run by Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) lack resources to avail enrichment programs like learning foreign languages and cultures as they come from economically weaker part of the community. This lack motivated to design Josuman French Enrichment Program for MCD school students to teach French language in the mother tongue of the students following recent NEP 2020 regulations. The impact of the program was analyzed after teaching it in 80 schools of three MCD zones, East, South and Central Delhi for the complete academic year of 2023-24 to the interested students of 4th and 5^th classes. The feedback from the school heads and class teachers was collected to analyze change in the affective attributes of the French program students. The weekly observational data and class exam results were collected from the French program teachers to analyze change in cognitive attributes of their students. The results of the study proved that students learnt to speak and write in French. There has been increase in the interest level and enthusiasm in learners. The impact of the French program has been so positive that more MCD schools have requested to include this enrichment program for their students.