Language policy and education in India :
Sridhar, M.
Language policy and education in India : documents, contexts and debates edited by M. Sridhar and Sunita Misha - India Routledge Publishers 2017 - 257 p.
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.
9781138220089
India
Language policy
English language--Study and teaching
English language
Language and languages--Study and teaching
Education
Education, Bilingual
English language--Social aspects
420.954 SRI-M
Language policy and education in India : documents, contexts and debates edited by M. Sridhar and Sunita Misha - India Routledge Publishers 2017 - 257 p.
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.
9781138220089
India
Language policy
English language--Study and teaching
English language
Language and languages--Study and teaching
Education
Education, Bilingual
English language--Social aspects
420.954 SRI-M