Studies In ELT, Linguistics And Applied Linguistics (Hardcover)  | Released: 2004

The importance of English both as a link language, a means of communication and as a medium of instruction has been steadily growing since Independence, so that the total number of learners of English in India today would easily exceed the total populations of many countries of Europe. Moreover, we have now more speakers of English in India than in Britain. Learning a language is different from learning about a language, but to acquire proficiency in a language at all the levels of listening, speaking, reading and writing, and an ability to express both functional and conceptual meaning it is not enough to know the language. However, since natural language use is richly variegated it is only when a good command of the language has been acquired that the learner can proceed to develop his personal linguistic repertoire through a knowledge of how a language works. A student of literature must also know how to apply the insights of linguistics to the appreciation of literature. Thirty essays that constitute this volume explore in-depth various aspects of the English language, English Language Teaching, functional, notional and communicative approaches to material production and syllabus design, different kinds of English, different uses of English in literary works, application of linguistic theories to the study of literature, translation and semantics. Teachers and students who are engaged in teaching/learning the English language, ELT, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics will find the book extremely valuable and anybody interested in these area will also find the book quite interesting.Table of Contents: 1. The Life and Death of Languages AMIYA BASU 2. The English Language MALLIKARJUN PATIL 3. English in Beginnings SHAILENDRA KUMAR MUKUL 4. Elizabethan Prose: A Note on Its Contribution to the Growth of English Prose SHARAD RAJIMWALE 5. Between the Metro & Municipality: Contemporary Teaching of English Literature in India AVADHESH KUMAR SINGH 6. Babu English and Butler English S. JAGADISAN and S. IMTIAZ ALI 7. The Acceptability of American English in India AMAR NATH JHA 8. Indian Variety of English: A Socio-Linguistic Study JAYDEEP SARANGI 9. Teaching of English in India: Problems and Prospects V.K. JAIN 10. Innovation in ELT and Instructional Materials: An Indian Context SANDHYA RANI SAHOO 11. Instructional Materials: A Social Perspective P. BHASKARAN NAIR 12. Adapting Instructional Materials for Task-based Language Classrooms P. BHASKARAN NAIR 13. Relevance of English Language Teaching (ELT) in Professional Education MEENAKSHI RAMAN 14. Teaching the Playtext in the Classroom Versus Watching its Performance: Macbeth as a Case Study PRAKASH CHANDRA PRADHAN 15. Classroom Experiences of Teaching Paradise Lost I SHUBHA TIWARI 16. The Importance of Learners Perception in the Language Teaching/Learning Process BENSON AGARWARKER 17. Second Language Acquisition: A Socio- Psychological Perspective PRATIBHA GUPTA 18. Is Learning a Number of Languages a Load? K. BALACHANDRAN 19. Acquiring English: Mother Tongue Must Have a Role R.P. SINGH 20. Teaching of English: Need for a New Agenda DIPAK J. BARUAH 21. Comprehension V.K. JAIN 22. Rushdies Use of Language in Midnights Children SISIR KUMAR CHATTERJEE 23. The Linguistic Deviations in The God of Small Things and the Legacy of Joyce SANTOSH CHAKRABARTI 24. Linguistic Deviations in Translation MUKTA MAHAJAN 25. Rasa, Dhvani and Auchitya in the Indian and the Western Poetics NANDINI SAHU 26. Inscape and the Theory of Dhvani RAMA KUNDU 27. Sanskrit Grammar and Linguistics AMAR NATH JHA 28. Structuralism and Structuralist Literary Theory MADAN M. SARMA 29. Teaching of Language and Literature in Ancient India R.S. PATHAK 30. Philosophy of Language BHASKAR ROY BARMAN Contributors