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Publication Date: 2019-Jan
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Learning to Speak 'Good English': Notes from an English-Speaking Class in Mumbai
Malhotra, Shrishti
Contemporary Education Dialogue, v16 n1 p141-151 Jan 2019
This article attempts to locate the 'English-Speaking' class in contemporary India. By unpacking different aspects of one such class in Mumbai, it sheds light on the ways in which students, teachers and those who run the class view the 'English-Speaking' course and the ability to speak 'good English'.
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Social Mobility, Social Capital, Privatization, Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Speech Communication
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