![]() ![]() The simple contours of Alpana (" ritual painting in the floor of the house " mainly practiced by Bengali women at the time of religious festival the term denotes 'to coat with'. Therefore, altogether different approach was taken to teach language art by introducing art samples already available in the Bengali culture. There might be one-many or many-one or zero –one (or vice versa) correspondences. The strategy adopted here for introducing target language graphemes to the Bengali children was altogether different from the usual cultural practice of introducing Bangla alphabet with sequential Sanskrit phonetic order of things that create ambiguities and confusion in the mind of learning-subjects as there was no strict one-to one correspondences between Bangla speech sounds and traditional graphemes. A primer was developed and it is meant for the primary Bengali facilitator, who were introducing Bangla alphabets to the children below six years. As (S)talker is deeply interested in de-/un-schooling, his concern for children leads to a pedagogical project. ![]()
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