Friday, April 29, 2011

1. 8 Factors That Disturb the Musahars in Education

A variety of factors are their obstacle on the path of getting education. They are age, ethnicity, power, demography, gender, sources of exposure of the target language, previous language background, cultural distance, ego permeability etc. Among them, language and their daily habits are the most prominent hindrance. Moreover, they are generally pessimistic in terms of two major types of motivational orientation: integrative and instrumental. That is, in integrative motivation, a learner wishes to learn language with community culture; he wants to be integrated in it with open-mind and eventually becomes to be accepted as a member of that group. In case of instrumental motivation, one's purposes of language study links with the more utilitarian value of linguistic achievement, such as getting ahead in one's occupation,  opportunity etc.
Thus, the Madheshi Dalits have great cultural distance from Nepali speakers and nor do they get job opportunity and promotion. So, they are not ready to learn Nepali language spontaneously. Consequently, both the motivations are lying at dormant level in case of them.
Musahars' mother-toungue which has been used in daily communication in their community is known as low level language. Often this language is spoken by only Dalits. So this is called Non-honorific language. This language has been undergone different names in its long history. They are Non-prestigious language, low level language, low caste language sometimes Dalit language. 
The language is use in all over the country and it is greatly used in Madhesh area.

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