Literature Culture and Language Education : With Special Reference to North-East India
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. 1. Problems of teaching Assamese as a second language/Ajit Kumar Baishya. 2. Teaching vocabulary at the secondary level/I. Amenla Changkija. 3. Teaching English in secondary schools: a case study in Kolasib district of Mizoram/Andrew Zothankhuma. 4. English print media and the curriculum: an alternate teaching/Asim Ranjan Parhi. 5. Context learning general semantics and second language reading/Awadesh K. Mishra. 6. Some aspects of socialist realism: a brief review/Birinchi Kumar Das. 7. Reading and vocabulary/Eshter Lalnunpuii. 8. Emile zola et sa langue/Gulab Jha. 9. Importance of dictionaries with reference to tribal languages of Manipur/S. Imoba. 10. The voice of the author: a Bakhtinian perspective/Kandarpa Das and Tandra Das. 11. Drama and school education/Kirti Kapur. 12. Issues and challenges of bilingual bicultural programme in deaf education: a case of Shillong/Melissa G. Wallang. 13. Insurgency terror and the woman in D.J. Borahs the green serpent: the politics of knowledge in the classroom/Namrata Pathak. 14. Pedagogy and the English classroom: pragmatics of teaching/Neelakshi Goswami. 15. Culture in second language teaching/Neeti Roy. 16. Role of technology in teaching literature and culture/Pallabi Roy. 17. The problems of mother tongue education in Manipur: a case study of the tribal languages/Pauthang Haokip. 18. Akhmatova\'s early poetry: symbolism versus acmeism/Pranjit Bora. 19. Issues and concerns for teaching of tribal language: a case study of tribal languages in Manipur/Ch. Sarajubala Devi. 20. Language literature and culture: a contextual analysis/Saryug Yadav. 21. Selection and exploitation of literary texts for language teaching/Subodh Kumar Jha. 22. Incorporating culture in teaching English in Assam: Problems and prospects/Surajit Ray.
The present volume contains twenty two research papers and articles written by language teachers scholars and language educators working in the area of language education at different levels. These papers and articles address some of the issues pertaining to teaching of second languages vocabulary reading lexicography mother tongue and tribal language education, deaf education, pedagogy and second language classroom literature and culture in language education topics in literatures of the second/foreign languages taught in the North East Region and so on.
The articles and papers presented in this volume highlight the importance of integrating literature and culture in second/foreign language teaching and discuss some of the problems faced by the second and foreign language teachers. This volume can serve as a 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 researchers and other stakeholders in the area of second/foreign language education in general and in the North East Region in particular. (jacket)
