Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 and economic processes of globalization in a developing country. The study is situated in a government school, a site where classrooms have rarely been qualitatively described, and where the Three Language Formula (TLF) is being fundamentally transformed due to increasing demand from the community for earlier access to the linguistic capital of English. Through research conducted in a call centre the author also shows what the requirements of new workplaces are and how government schools are trying to meet this demand.
Trade ReviewThis book is recommended reading for language researchers and teachers.
-- Janaina Minelli de Oliveira, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain * Discourse and Society 20(4) *
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
1. English as a Language of Decolonization
2. Biliteracy and Globalization
3. In what Languages is English Taught?
4. What is Taught?
5. In what Contexts is English Taught?
6. How Much is Learned?
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Non Scheduled Languages
Appendix 2: 15 day Training Schedule for a Call Centre
Appendix 3: Photos
