Teacher: And just I am mentioned here, this is such a law which is based on universal trust, which is based on human experience, and what is the mentality of the Common People? The mentality of the Common People is when the price of any goods that is higher, then we will purchase the goods in low quantity, and when price decreases then we purchase high quantity, so basing on this reality, basing on this fact, there is a law in economics and the law is called the ‘law of demand’. If you want to gauge the law in Nepali then I can also explain. [Nepali language]
Teacher interview 1, Nepal. Kristina Hultgren interviews an economics teacher on how he teaches in Nepali and English, and the impact on students of using Nepali to explain some concepts.
Teacher: To ground the concept of economics sometimes I have to also take help by speaking Nepali Language too.
Interviewer: Yeah, and we saw you use Nepali very effectively in the class you talked yesterday where you explained some concepts, so can you tell us about when it's necessary to use Nepali rather than English.
Teacher: Actually economics is a technical subject so in common language but in the language of economics some terms and technologies are there which generally the students of this locality they will be unable to get. In such a case, I have to use their own language, Nepali Language.
Interviewer: And what effect does that have? Does that make them understand better?
Teacher: Actually, they feel comfortable to take education in Nepali language but due to the criteria of being a Metropolitan City, this is an English medium school, so I have to teach here in English language.
Religious festivals lesson, Nepal: A teacher explains Thanksgiving in English and Nepali.
Teacher: I'm going to teach you about Thanksgiving around the world okay, around the world okay. That is our going on chapter okay, yesterday and before yesterday I have taught it. Thanksgiving, what do you understand by Thanksgiving around the world? In Nepali it is [Nepali language] and what is called it in your B language mother tongue? [other language]. Okay.
Teacher interview 2, Nepal: Kristina Hultgren interviews a teacher on how she used English and Nepali in her Thanksgiving lesson.
Interviewer: One thing I noticed when we were in your class yesterday was that you used cultural similarities, so when you talked about festivals, for instance, you talked about Thanksgiving in British or American cultures and then you translated that concept into the Nepali equivalent.
Teacher: Yeah, yes.
Interviewer: So can you tell me about what why you did that.
Teacher: I did this while sometimes as teaching like festivals, costumes, religious works, okay. In this chapters we should translate into Nepali language because they catch it easily if we taught them English to English they could get difficult to understand and they feel difficulty and if I translate it into my own language, their native language, they feel easy in their classroom and they interest more, okay, if I translate it they interest more, they learn fast that is the reason I used to translate, sometimes, not all times and according to students needs and demand. Also sometimes they demand ma'am whole chapter you should translate into Nepali language. We have to do so also. Sometimes all of the summary of the chapters we used to translate into Nepali language and some Nepali words they feel difficulty to understand, then we translate it into their own mother tongue language – some are Bo language speaking students here, some are background students here.
Interviewer: So that sounds excellent. So that sounds like it you use Nepali sometimes when to make the students both more comfortable but also using everyday examples that they can relate to.
Economics lesson 2, Nepal: A teacher explains the law of supply and demand in Nepali and English. Notice how he writes on the board in English and explains in Nepali, and how he uses gestures to explain concepts.
Good afternoon everyone, our lesson for today is about drugs abuse and with – we just heard the lesson about drugs, effects of drugs and all those things that we just listing now, and the questions is that ‘what is drugs abuse?’. Drugs abuse is, like, something not good for our health, especially taking drugs, start the med – without the prescription of the doctor – it affect our health, our educations and other stuffs. Well, the question on the board says ‘what is the consequences of drugs abuse on youth?’. It cause damage of brain, damage of intestine, redness of eye and lose of memories, and second question says ‘ways of preventing drugs abuse’. With the help of the government, maybe the government can help by employing teachers and employing teachers in school which can treat – which can teach us about drugs, who can teach us the right way to use drugs, not using drugs anyhow, using it, wasting it and misusing it. Well, we just discussed it now. We discuss about the drugs in our society. It's not good for us using drugs because it's not good for our health. It's good for our health when we are ill or having any pain, but it's not good for us to just use like that without prescription of the doctor.
