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Socio-cultural Dimensions of English as a Second Language

My views on "Socio-cultural Dimensions of English as a Second Language"-Rekha Aslam      we use English but our requirements are behind English.English is a link language and also official language. English is not become our need but it is just medium and it is not our goal.nowadays we need English because our higher education is not in our mother tongue(Gujarati) but it is in English. We have not genuine interest in English.English is not boring but our teacher makes it boring so we have not interest in learning English as a subject because teacher have not any special method for teaching English as a language -it English is taught in particular way or in a effective method so we can it learn easily. These all things are flexible and the main reason of behind them is socio-culture dimension of English. For Example: our belief system is different .it is always our mythology.we can not translate our ethos,mythology and our cultural idea in English.We have long...

The Dual Role Of English In India

The Dual Role of English in India. This blog is in reference to a research paper by E.ANNAMALAI “Satan and Saraswati: The Double Face of English in India”.   English language is more important nowadays. English plays a conflicting double role in India in policy and practice. We all know that English is official language. English is taught as a language for its instrumental value in school and colleges compulsorily.  English as a Satan:--  In English languageLarge number of words makes difficult to learn many irregularities in spelling, pronunciation and other kind of things also.  -people would be unhappy,especially those who do not know English and it would be difficult to convert everybody to the English language.- English is not learned from primary level education so communication is a bit difficult. English as a sarswati:- English is a link language.A large number of people in non-english speaking countries already know and /or studying Engl...