The basic assumption of this book is that language form is best learnt when students are concentrating on meaning rather than form. The study is based on research carried out during a five-year classroom experiment (The Bangalore/Madras Communicational Teaching Project).
"This book situates the teaching and learning of language in general, and English in particular, within the socio-cultural context of India. It engages with current scholarship in literacy studies, and the pedagogies of language acquisition and learning. The volume discusses the…
"This book situates the teaching and learning of language in general, and English in particular, within the socio-cultural context of India. It engages with current scholarship in literacy studies, and the pedagogies of language acquisition and learning. The volume discusses the…
"This book situates the teaching and learning of language in general, and English in particular, within the socio-cultural context of India. It engages with current scholarship in literacy studies, and the pedagogies of language acquisition and learning. The volume discusses the…
With globalization, English has become an economic necessity and Indians have realized that they have the #x91;English advantage#x92; over many other countries like China and Japan. India has shed its colonial complexes towards English and has come to terms with the language; In…
With globalization, English has become an economic necessity and Indians have realized that they have the #x91;English advantage#x92; over many other countries like China and Japan. India has shed its colonial complexes towards English and has come to terms with the language; In…
'Schooling the National Imagination' examines English Studies in the school curriculum in India and, using this as a lens, also explores the shifts in the construction of nationalism modernity, and identity in independent India.