Teaching English in India/ R.S. Pathak

Includes bibliography and index

Introduction -- Grammar in language teaching -- Transformational-generative grammar -- Communicative apprach to language teaching -- Language acquisition and language learning -- Learners' errors: nature, sources and significance -- Attitudes and motivation of Indian learners -- Linguistics and language teaching -- Spoken English in India: the question of a model -- Tag questions in English -- Aspiration in English and Hindi -- English pronunciation: an alternative approach -- The English nominal group -- The English modals -- The English perfect -- Postscript

The present volume contains papers on language and language teaching with special reference to the English language. Although the major thrust of most of the papers is on the social psychology of bilingualism,four important aspects of language teaching/learning, i.e. cognitive, affective, social, and padagogical, have received adequate attention. The studies and findings reported in them will be of interest to applied linguists, teachers, language planners, course designers, and researchers and students of English as a second/foreign language.