Role of the Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore in Language Development at Secondary Level Students

Language is a collection of symbols, which may be spoken or manual (signed) or written by which human beings, as a member of social groups and participants in its culture, express themselves.Language development refers to the growth and improvement of language skills in an individual over time.The present paper attempts to make a study about the role of Tagore's short stories in language development of the secondary level students.Here the researcher has selected five short stories by Rabindranath Tagore namely 'Denapaona' 'Jibita O Mrita' 'Nishithe' 'Streer Patra' 'Laboratory'.The study deals with many aspects of language development.This study is purely qualitative in nature and here content analysis method has been applied.We can notice that all components of language are there in the selected short stories by Rabindranath Tagore.By reading these short stories the secondary level students can develop their imagination, critical thinking, creativity as well as language and social skills.