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TheEnglish-Vernacular Divide : Postcolonial Language Politics and Practice / Vaidehi Ramanathan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bilingual Education & BilingualismPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781853597701
  • 9781853597718
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 420/.9171241 22
LOC classification:
  • PE2751 .R36 2005
  • PE2751 .R36 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Situating the Vernacular in a Divisive Postcolonial Landscape -- Chapter 2. Divisive Postcolonial Ideologies, Language Policies and Social Practices -- Chapter 3. Divisive and Divergent Pedagogical Tools for Vernacularand English-medium Students -- Chapter 4. The Divisive Politics of Divergent Pedagogical Practices at College Level -- Chapter 5. The Divisive Politics of Tracking -- Chapter 6. Gulfs and Bridges Revisited: Hybridity, Nativization and Other Loose Ends -- Afterword: Some Personal Notes -- Appendix 1: Details of Research Data -- Appendix 2: Some Historical Dates Marking the Enforcement of Particular Educational Policies -- Appendix 3: Divergent Minimal Levels of Learning (MLLs) for VM and EM Students -- Appendix 4: Examples from Curricula and Examination Papers -- References -- Index
Summary: This book offers a critical exploration of the role of English in postcolonial communities such as India. Specifically, it focuses on some local ways in which the language falls along the lines of a class-based divide (with ancillary ones of gender and caste as well). The book argues that issues of inequality, subordination and unequal value seem to revolve directly around the general positioning of English in relation to vernacular languages. The author was raised and schooled in the Indian educational system.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Situating the Vernacular in a Divisive Postcolonial Landscape -- Chapter 2. Divisive Postcolonial Ideologies, Language Policies and Social Practices -- Chapter 3. Divisive and Divergent Pedagogical Tools for Vernacularand English-medium Students -- Chapter 4. The Divisive Politics of Divergent Pedagogical Practices at College Level -- Chapter 5. The Divisive Politics of Tracking -- Chapter 6. Gulfs and Bridges Revisited: Hybridity, Nativization and Other Loose Ends -- Afterword: Some Personal Notes -- Appendix 1: Details of Research Data -- Appendix 2: Some Historical Dates Marking the Enforcement of Particular Educational Policies -- Appendix 3: Divergent Minimal Levels of Learning (MLLs) for VM and EM Students -- Appendix 4: Examples from Curricula and Examination Papers -- References -- Index

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This book offers a critical exploration of the role of English in postcolonial communities such as India. Specifically, it focuses on some local ways in which the language falls along the lines of a class-based divide (with ancillary ones of gender and caste as well). The book argues that issues of inequality, subordination and unequal value seem to revolve directly around the general positioning of English in relation to vernacular languages. The author was raised and schooled in the Indian educational system.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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