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Language and Language Teaching Language and Language Teaching Editors Rama Kant Agnihotri , Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur, India (Formerly at the University of Delhi) A. L. Khanna , ELT Consultant, Delhi, India (Formerly at the University of Delhi) Editorial Committee Suranjana Barua, Tezpur University, Assam, India Haobam Basantarani, Language Consultant, Delhi, India Rajni Dwivedi, Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India Praveen Singh, University of Delhi, Delhi, India Rajesh Kumar, IIT, Patna, Bihar, India Devaki Lakshminarayan, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Executive Committee H.K. Dewan, Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India S. Giridhar, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India International Review and Advisory Board R. Amritavalli, English and Foreign Languages Minati Panda, Zakir Hussain Centre for Educational University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India Studies, JNU, Delhi, India Rakesh Bhatt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, D.P. Pattanayak, Founder Director, CIIL, Mysore, Illinois, USA Karnataka, India Tanmoy Bhattacharya, University of Delhi, Delhi, India Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Jim Cummins, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Denmark Ganesh Devy, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Tariq Rahman, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, Pakistan India Anju Sahgal Gupta, Indira Gandhi National Open Kathleen Heugh, University of South Australia, Australia University, Delhi, India Ayesha Kidwai, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, Itesh Sachdev, School of Oriental & African Studies, India University of London, UK Stephen D. Krashen, University of Southern California, Rajesh Sachdeva, Acting Director, CIIL, Mysore, Los Angeles, California, USA Karnataka, India Kay McCormick, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Sadhna Saxena, University of Delhi, Delhi, India South Africa Rajendra Singh, University of Montreal, Montreal, Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Canada South Africa Udaya Narayana Singh, Tagore Research Chair, Visva K. P.Mohanan, IISER, Pune, Maharashtra, India Bharati, Santiniketan, WestBengal, India Ajit Mohanty, formerly at the Zakir Hussain Centre for M.L. Tickoo, formerly at the English and Foreign Educational Studies, JNU, Delhi, India Languages University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, Aditi Mukherjee, National Translation Mission, CIIL, India Mysore, Karnataka, India Mahendra K. Verma, University of York,York,UK Each contribution will also be read by practising teachers for feedback. Copy Editor: Preeti Jhangiani Layout: Rajesh Sen © 2012 Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur and Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. The views expressed in the articles inLLT are those of the authors only. Printed and published by H.K. Dewan on behalf of Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur andAzim Premji University, Bengaluru and printed at Choudhary Offset Pvt. Ltd., Udaipur. Language and Language Teaching Volume 1 Number 1 January 2012 Contents Articles Landmarks Helping Children Become Readers 1 Language Teaching in the Greek and 65 R.Amritavalli Roman Times Praveen Singh Current Research in Language Assessment 5 and its Implications for Language Teaching Yasmeen Lukmani Book Reviews Drama with Children 68 Using Language in the Community for 12 Enhancing Communication Skills Reviewed by Rimli Bhattacharya and Rita Shefali Ray Ronita Sen Emergent Literacy and Language 70 Hindi: A Language of Serious Discourse? 18 Development: Promoting Learning in Early Mukul Priyadarshini Childhood Reviewed byAditya Raj Reading Without Meaning: The Dilemma of 22 Indian Classrooms The Native Speaker: Myth and Reality 72 Shobha Sinha Reviewed by Rajesh Kumar andAmit Sethi Children as Authors: To Enhance Writing 27 Skills or to Build Authorial Practice? Suggested Readings Snehlata Gupta, Joseph Mathai and Prabhat Focus on the Language Classroom 74 Kumar A Course in Language Teaching: Practice 75 Towards a Conceptual Framework for Early 32 and Theory Literacy: A Balanced and Socially Sensitive Second Language Learning: Theoretical 76 Approach Foundations Keerti Jayaram Context and Culture in Language Teaching 76 Making a ‘Play-Text’:Innovative Uses of 40 Suranjana Barua Traditional Arts Rimli Bhattacharya ClassroomActivities 46 Collaborative Spaces on the Web and Drawing Pictures 77 Language Teaching: Blogs and Wikis Rajni Dwivedi Vandana Lunyal Board Game 78 Developing Speech Skills 55 Devaki Lakshminarayan Pramod Pandey Interview Forthcoming Events Interview of M. L. Tickoo 60 Tenth Asia Teaching of English as Foreign Pushpinder Syal Language (TEFL) International Conference Language and Language Teaching (LLT) Objectives Published twice a year in January and July, Language and Language Teaching (LLT) reaches out to language teachers, researchers and teacher educators on issues and practices relevant to language teaching. The primary focus of the publication is language pedagogy in elementary schools. LLT proposes to establish a dialogue between theory and practice so that practice contributes to theory as much as theory informs practice. The purpose is to make new ideas and insights from research on language and its pedagogy accessible to practitioners while at the same time inform theorists about the constraints of implementation of new ideas. Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts 1. MS word version of the manuscripts (British 10. A detailed list of references in alphabetical order must spellings) should be submitted to the Editors of LLT be provided at the end of the article following the via email at the address(es) given below: endnotes. All details should be provided like: the [email protected], [email protected], author's name, name of the book/ name of the journal [email protected] with issue number, publisher, place of publication, If need be, you may also send them by post to: year and page range/number (in case of chapter from Vidya Bhawan Society, Fatehpura ,Udaipur 313004, an edited book, journal, magazine, weekly,periodicals, Rajasthan, India newspapers). For Example: 2. Language and Language Teaching (LTT) welcomes Agnihotri, R.K. & Khanna, A.L. (1977). papers/articles that have not been published elsewhere Problematizing English in India. New Delhi: Sage and have not been submitted elsewhere for publication Publications. at the time of being sent to LLT. Copies of letters Gupta,A .(1991). The failing of English as a lingua granting permission to reproduce illustrations, tables, franca in India. In Gupta, R.S. & Kapoor, K.(Eds), or lengthy quoted passages should be included with English in India: Issues and problems (pp.58-80). the manuscript. Delhi:Academic Foundation. 3. Articles should be between 1500- 2000 words in John, G. (1977). Is Indish the answer? YouthTimes, length. Book Reviews and Annotated Bibliography 2 September, 44-45. should not exceed 800 and 400 words respectively. National Council of Educational Research and 4. The first page should contain the article title, Training, India. (2005). National curriculum author(s), affiliation(s), a short form of the article. framework (NCF 2005). New Delhi, India. For correspondence, contributor should provide his/ 11. Page numbers for all direct quotations should be her name, phone number, complete mailing address provided. Direct quotations of 45 words or more and email address. should be indented. 5. The style for writing numerical expressions should 12. Tables and figures should be completely be consistent throughout the manuscript. understandable, independent of the text and must be 7. Notes should appear at the end of the text and before cited in the text. Tablesand figures should be attached the references. Foot notes are not permitted. Each at the end of the manuscript following the list of end note used in the article should contain more than a mere reference. references. 8. Single quotes should be used throughout the article. 13. Book reviews must contain details like name of the Double quotes should be used only within single author/editor and book reviewed, place of publication quotes. and publisher, year of publication, scanned copy of 9. All the references must be cited in text or endnotes, the cover page, number of pages and price. and follow the APAstyle of referencing in the text. 14. All manuscripts are subject to the usual process of For example: anonymous review because LLT is a refereed journal. (Chomsky, 2010: p.27) or (Labov, 2010, p.56) or Information that could help identify the contributor (Halliday, 2010, pp.56-57) should be avoided in the body of the article. Articles Helping Children Become Readers R.Amritavalli English and Foreign Languages University,Hyderabad Pathways to literacy a reader. The aim of teaching reading is to Literacy,for the purposes of the census, is the create readers. ability to write one’s name. But to reduce Achild’s ability to read is a skill that stays literacy to a signature is obviously to trivialize with him/her through life. However, this skill it. Nor is literacy merely the ability to recognize grows and develops with the child and is not a alphabets, and to put them together to read competence that we can give to the child as a words, or to read a text.Although all these full-blown ability. skills are part of the road to literacy,true literacy In this paper, I shall first attempt to outline is the ability to read independently, a text models of literacy. I shall then present an of one’s choice, and understand it. (Note that argument to highlight the fact that what is missing literacy is
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