Biliteracy and Globalization: English Language Education in India

✍ Scribed by Viniti Vaish

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 136
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyzes how the urban disadvantaged in the city of New Delhi learn English. Using qualitative methods the author discusses the pedagogy, texts and contexts in which biliteracy occurs and links English language teaching and learning in India with the broader social processes of globalization.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: English as a Language of Decolonization
Chapter 2: Biliteracy and Globalization
Chapter 3: In What Languages is English Taught?
Chapter 4: What is Taught?
Chapter 5: In What Contexts is English Taught?
Chapter 6: How Much is Learned?
Chapter 7: Conclusions
Appendix 1: Non-scheduled
Appendix 2: 15-day Training Schedule for a Call Center
Appendix 3: Photos
Bibliography