The Teaching and Acquisition of South Asian Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Teaching and Acquisition of South Asian Languages write by Vijay Gambhir. This book was released on 1995. The Teaching and Acquisition of South Asian Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book to apply the latest methodological analysis to the languages of South Asia, The Teaching and Acquisition of South Asian Languages provides a much needed examination of learners and their learning patterns, language materials and their delivery, classroom environments, and learning conditions beyond the classroom. The contributors, accredited researchers and experienced teachers, test important universal learning hypotheses on "less commonly taught languages" and find that those circumstances have significant implications for theory and practice. The book brings into focus a variety of issues related to linguistic theory, second language acquisition research, non-verbal communication, discourse appropriateness, learner variation, and strategies for developing speaking, listening, and reading skills. It is also a valuable addition to the general body of knowledge in the field of adult language acquisition. A carefully prepared index and an extensive bibliography covering both the South Asian field and general literature enhance the book's usefulness as a reference guide.
Language in South Asia
Language in South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language in South Asia write by Braj B. Kachru. This book was released on 2014-05-14. Language in South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. South Asia is a rich and fascinating linguistic area, its many hundreds of languages from four major language families representing the distinctions of caste, class, profession, religion, and region. This comprehensive new volume presents an overview of the language situation in this vast subcontinent in a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context. An invaluable resource, it comprises authoritative contributions from leading international scholars within the fields of South Asian language and linguistics, historical linguistics, cultural studies and area studies. Topics covered include the ongoing linguistic processes, controversies, and implications of language modernization; the functions of South Asian languages within the legal system, media, cinema, and religion; language conflicts and politics, and Sanskrit and its long traditions of study and teaching. Language in South Asia is an accessible interdisciplinary book for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language planning and South Asian studies.
Resources for South Asian Language Studies in the United States
Resources for South Asian Language Studies in the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resources for South Asian Language Studies in the United States write by W. Norman Brown. This book was released on 2016-11-11. Resources for South Asian Language Studies in the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
English Language Education in South Asia
English Language Education in South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Language Education in South Asia write by Lesley Farrell. This book was released on 2011. English Language Education in South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In South Asia, English is the major link language for people from diverse linguistic backgrounds. With globalisation and the subsequent rise in the demand of English, almost all South Asian countries are in the process of introducing English at the early school level. This widens the scope of investigating into the national policies regarding English and probing the status of English language in relation to pedagogy in the countries of the South Asian region. "English Language Education in South Asia" provides a strong foundation for scholarly work on ELE in South Asia. The volume contains compilation of scholarly and investigative essays, especially written for this volume, by some of the most prominent and emerging scholars of English language education in South Asia. The chapters provide up-to-date information on the politics, policy, theory and practice of ELE in seven countries of South Asia - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The volume, divided into three sections - Policy, Pedagogy and Politics of Pedagogy - investigates how the socio-economic, local and global language politics shape the ELE in South Asia. It also addresses the theoretical as well as practical issues of classroom procedures, teacher preparation programmes, resource management, examinations, educational constraints and limitations.
Post-colonial Curriculum Practices in South Asia
Post-colonial Curriculum Practices in South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-colonial Curriculum Practices in South Asia write by Asantha U. Attanayake. This book was released on 2019-07-10. Post-colonial Curriculum Practices in South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Post-colonial Curriculum Practices in South Asia gives a conceptual framework for curriculum design for English Language Teaching, taking into account context specific features in the teaching–learning settings of post-colonial South Asia. It reveals how the attitudes prevalent in post-colonial South Asian societies towards English negatively influence English language learning. The book provides a comprehensive analysis to design a course for English language teaching that aims at building learner confidence to speak English. Based on original research, the study covers Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The book focuses on the context-specific nature of learners and considers a curriculum design that binds teaching materials and teaching methods together with an aligned assessment. Chapters discuss language attitudes, learner characteristics and English in the context of native languages, and introduce a special type of anxiety that stems from existing language attitudes in a society, referred to as Language Attitude Anxiety. The book will appeal to doctoral and post-doctoral scholars in English language education, students and researchers of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics as well as curriculum designers of ELT and language policy makers.
