9 April 2024
The next meeting in the seminar series of the Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity: “Wall, gate, or door: the role of the English language in Indian society and education”- Panchanan Mohanty, April 10, 2024
The next meeting in the seminar series of the Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity “Decolonizing approaches to studying history and linguistic-cultural heritage. Methods, tools, results and challenges”
Wall, gate, or door: the role of the English language in Indian society and education
will take place on
April 10, 2024
at 16:45 CET.
The Times of India, Hyderabad, reported on August 16, 2015 that only 0.9% engineering graduates of the city could get the highest grade whereas 25.6% secured the lowest one. Though India has implemented a three-language formula involving the state language, Hindi, and English, its 2011 national bilingualism and trilingualism figures are 26.01% and 7.10% respectively. W. R. Parker (1961) of the Modern Language Association of America stated: “One language makes a wall; it takes to make a gate”. Adding ‚door’ to Parker’s statement, this paper discusses the role of English, i.e. whether a wall, a gate, or a door in India’s social and educational system.
To join the seminar online, please register at:
crp@al.uw.edu.pl
