Language and Language Teaching
Volume 12 Number 2 Issue 24 July 2023
LLT COVER
Editorial5
Articles
English Education in India in the Pre-Macaulayan Period
7Hitesh D. Raviya & Tahenaz Parvin Biva
Colonial Legacy of English as Medium of Instruction in India16
Shivakumar Jolad & Isha Doshi
Language Ideologies and Multilingual Education: Teaching
English and Hindi in Assamese26
Digantaraj Medhi & Nirmali Goswami
Hemchandra Goswami and the Teaching of Assamese
Language and Literature in Calcutta University35
Dhurjjati Sarma
Language of Education in India44
Shreesh Chaudhary
State of Doubt, Reasoning and Reproduction of Socio-cultural Values in a Hindi Classroom 63
Shachinder Arya
Multilingual Education in India: Challenges Ahead71
Shikha Tripathi
Contextualising Mother Tongue-Based, Multilingual Education in
the Landscape of North-East India: Prospects and Challenges79
Ayesha Dkhar & Porixita Kakoty
Design Thinking for Multilingual Education: The Question of
Medium in NEP 202092
Rajesh Sachdeva
Tribal Languages and Mother Tongue-Based Education in India: Realities and Possibilities in Arunachal Pradesh 101
Jayati Chatterjee, Dhriti Sundar Gupta & Wangjo Bosai
Chinese Language Education in India’s Northeast Region: Opportunities and Challenges111
Shyamkumar Ningthoujam
The Gaping Pit between Education and Employment: The Issue of Vocational Education in India 121
Ujjal Jeet
English Language Teaching in Government Schools of Kashmir: A Study130
Aadil Amin Kak & Benish Afzal Want
English Language Assessment for Social Justice: Teachers’ Voices from Multilingual Classrooms 139
Shefali Srivastava
Function-oriented, Form-focused Instruction: Revitalising Second Language Classes148
P. Bhaskaran Nair
Interview
In Conversation with Udaya Narayana Singh157
Suranjana Barua
Landmark
What do Expert Indian ESL Teachers’ Development Journeys Tell Us about Impact of Continuous Professional Development? A Qualitative Meta-analysis167
Lina Mukhopadhyay
Book Reviews
Linguistic Diversity in South and Southeast Asia177
Ayesha Kidwai
Language Education: Teaching English in India181
Minakshi Lahkar
Report
The ‘Gunotsav’ Initiative of the Government of Assam185
Suranjana Barua