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#37, Research Paper: Characteristics of Indian English

Post author:Tarun Patel
Post published:October 9, 2009
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Characteristics of Indian English

by Dr. Asma Rizwan, People’s Institute of Management & Research, Bhopal

ABSTRACT

English has been in India since the early 1600’s, when the East India Company started trading and English missionaries first began their efforts. English started life in India as not just a foreign language, but as a much-hated language. A large number of Christian schools imparting an English education were set up by the early 1800’s. The process of producing English-knowing bilinguals in India began with the Minute of 1835, which officially endorsed T.B. Macaulay’s goal of forming “a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern – a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals and in intellect” (quoted in Kachru 1983, p. 22). English became the official and academic language of India by the early twentieth century. (more…)

#36, Research Article: ‘Language and Culture’ by Mahsa Kia

Post author:Tarun Patel
Post published:October 3, 2009
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Culture is the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education.(Webster dictionary) The national centre for cultural competence defines culture as an" integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thoughts, communications, languages, practices, beliefs, values, customs, courtesies, rituals, manners of interacting and roles, relationships and expected behaviors of racial, ethnic, religious or social group; and the ability to transmit the above to the succeeding generation.(Good,Sockalingam,Brown&Jones,2000)

#36, Research Article: ‘The Use of L1 in Teaching English’ by Ms Daisy

Post author:Tarun Patel
Post published:October 2, 2009
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There is no rule that you should never use L1 in English lessons, nor on the other hand is there any excuse for using L1 most of the time. Like many other teaching strategies, the use of L1 involves rapid on-your-feet decision making: is it worth switching to L1 at this point? Or would it be better to stay with English? We should finally free ourselves from the misconceptions and try to appreciate the existing alliance between the L1 and L2. Our ultimate aim should be to have students who are proficient L2 users rather than deficient L1 speakers.