Issues in Teaching : Learning Second and Foreign Languages (With Special Reference to North East India)

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. 1. Phonological study into the problems and remedies of learning English by Assamese learners/Atonu Kakoty. 2. Teaching grammar in context: moving away from grammar focused to task based instruction/Awadesh K. Mishra. 3. Teaching a second or foreign language in the North-East: psycholinguistic and cognitive issues/Bidisha Som and Ramesh K. Mishra. 4. Linguistic imperialism and teacher education: the need for a socially sensitive ESL Pedagogy/Chanchala K. Naik. 5. Phonological differences between Manipuri and English problems faced by Manipuri learners/I. Gambhir Singh and Mary Kim Haokip. 6. Teaching Spanish as a foreign language in the North-East India: a study of the problems faced by the students/Gin Muan Thang. 7. La civilisation Francaise et L injure/Gulab Jha. 8. Negotiating culture the tradition of translation of Russian literature in Assam/Kandarpa Das. 9. Teaching English: a perspective/Kirti Kapur. 10. Importance of incorporating culture in English language teaching: a few techniques of incorporation/Manoj Kumar Choudhury. 11. Persian teaching learning in Assam/Mazhar Asif. 12. Phonology of Shillong sign language ShSL and English language teaching/Melissa G. Wallang. 13. Play drama in language teaching/Namrata Pathak.14. Selecting texts for the secondary level English language classroom: what makes for a good English text/Padmini Boruah Bhuyan. (8 articles in arabi or French)

The present Volume contains twenty two articles and research papers written by language teachers, scholars and language educators working in the area of teaching second and foreign languages. These articles and papers address some of the important issues such as locally and culturally suitable material production teaching of pronunciation and spelling grammar and developing adequate learning skills with learner centric strategies, translation incorporation of culture and literature in language teaching language education of the Deaf children as well as taking a critical look at teachers training with special reference to teaching and learning second and foreign languages in the North Eastern Region of India. The articles and papers presented in this volume highlight some of the problems faced by the second and foreign language teachers and attempt to provide solutions to them. This volume can serve as a very useful resource book for the second/foreign language teachers, teacher educators people who are concerned with the preparation of courses and textbooks for second/foreign language learners and other stakeholders in the area of second foreign language education in general and in the North Eastern Region in particular. (jacket)