Second language acquisition : socio-cultural and linguistic aspects of English in India /
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Imprint: | New Delhi : Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; Sage Publications, 1994. |
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Description: | xiii, 389 p. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Research in applied linguistics ; vol. 1 |
Subject: | English language -- India. Second language acquisition -- India. English language -- Study and teaching -- India. English language -- Study and teaching -- Indic speakers. Sociolinguistics. English language. English language -- Study and teaching. English language -- Study and teaching -- Indic speakers. Second language acquisition. Sociolinguistics. India. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1726751 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / R. K. Agnihotri and A. L. Khanna
- 1. World Englishes and Applied Linguistics / Braj B. Kachru
- 2. Indigenized Englishes as Second Languages: Toward a Functional Theory of Second Language Acquisition in Multilingual Contexts / S. N. Sridhar and Kamal K. Sridhar
- 3. Theoretical Importance of Applied Linguistics / R. Singh and A. Ford
- 4. English as a Contact Language / Lachman M. Khubchandani
- 5. Teaching English as a Second Language in India: A Socio-Functional View / Shivendra K. Verma
- 6. English in Indian Education / Manindra K. Verma
- 7. English in Mother Tongue Medium Education / M. V. Nadkarni
- 8. Indian English: Certain Grammatical, Lexical and Stylistic Features / S. V. Parasher
- 9. 'I Deny That I'm Incapable of not Working All Night': Divergence of Negative Structures in British and Indian English / Jean Aitchison and R. K. Agnihotri
- 10. The Use of Articles in Indian English: Errors and Pedagogical Implications / R. K. Agnihotri, A. L. Khanna and Aditi Mukherjee
- 11. On a Description of the Phonology of Indian English / Pramod K. Pandey
- 12. Implicational Order of Difficulty in the Use of Tenses in English / R. K. Agnihotri, A. L. Khanna and Aditi Mukherjee
- 13. A Note on the Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects of Indian English / B. N. Patnaik and K. Geetha
- 14. Sound Patterns of Indian English: A Sociolinguistic Perspective / R. K. Agnihotri
- 15. Individual and Social Variables in ESL / A. L. Khanna
- 16. Patterns of Language Use in a Bilingual Setting in India / Anju Sahgal
- 17. Syntax - The Common Bond: Acceptability of Syntactic Deviances in Indian English / Anju Sahgal and R. K. Agnihotri
- 18. Discourse Strategies, Pragmatics and ESL: Where are We Going? / Yamuna Kachru
- 19. How to Direct in Tamil and English: Some Questions about Teaching Communication / E. Annamalai
- 20. Towards an Alternative Curriculum for Acquisition-Poor Environments / Makhan Lal Tickoo
- 21. Technical Communication Teaching in India: A Needs Assessment Report / R. K. Singh
- 22. The Communicational Testing of Reading / Yasmeen Lukmani
- 23. Selecting Reading Materials: Some Key Considerations / R. S. Gupta
- 24. Afterword / Rajendra Singh.