Description:This book presents a history of English and development of language education in modern India. It explores the role of language in colonial attempts to establish hegemony, the play of power, and the anxieties in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century India. The essays in the volume discuss language policy, debates and pedagogy as well as larger overarching questions such as identity, nationhood and sub-nationhood. The work also looks at the socio-cultural and economic factors that shaped the writing and publishing of textbooks, dictionaries and determined the direction of language teaching, specifically, of English language teaching.Drawing on a variety of archival sources -- policy documents, books, periodicals -- this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of linguistics, language teaching, cultural studies and modern Indian history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Language Policy and Education in India: Documents, Contexts and Debates. To get started finding Language Policy and Education in India: Documents, Contexts and Debates, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Language Policy and Education in India: Documents, Contexts and Debates
Description: This book presents a history of English and development of language education in modern India. It explores the role of language in colonial attempts to establish hegemony, the play of power, and the anxieties in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century India. The essays in the volume discuss language policy, debates and pedagogy as well as larger overarching questions such as identity, nationhood and sub-nationhood. The work also looks at the socio-cultural and economic factors that shaped the writing and publishing of textbooks, dictionaries and determined the direction of language teaching, specifically, of English language teaching.Drawing on a variety of archival sources -- policy documents, books, periodicals -- this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of linguistics, language teaching, cultural studies and modern Indian history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Language Policy and Education in India: Documents, Contexts and Debates. To get started finding Language Policy and Education in India: Documents, Contexts and Debates, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.