The teaching of English grammar in Indian schools, both government and private, has been a matter of serious educational debate for a very long time, which is symptomatic of larger issues concerning pedagogy and second-language acquisition. Although English is a requirement in most Indian school curricula, children often have difficulty becoming fluent in grammar and without fluency it becomes difficult for them to express themselves clearly.
Since the late eighteenth century, gothic literature has offered a way to explore societal fears through gender roles, identity and power. Certainly in the development of character traits which seek to be challenging, whether negative (epistemic patriarchs) of positive (resistant subalterns), philosophy separates itself from other academic disciplines working with characters and knowledges.
Code-switching, a multifaceted line of study and observation in bilingual communication, is defined as the use of two or more languages alternately within a discourse. And it demonstrates bilingual speakers’ cognitive flexibility and social knowledge alongside their linguistic ability. Drawing on cognitive and sociolinguistic approaches, the present paper examines the psycholinguistic mechanism of code-switching in bilingual speakers living in a multilingual society.
Postcolonial and decolonial literatures emerge as dynamic means of intellectual and cultural resistance to the longue durée effects of colonialism. They are fundamentally political acts of reclamation; they seek to recapture history, retrieve memory and rebuild culture from perspectives imperial power has disavowed. They are not just artistic or historical projects.
Environmental sensitivity has been brought to the forefront of contemporary literary and cultural production by an increasingly acute sense of climate change and ecological degradation. To understand how nature and our ecological crises are portrayed in modern literature of the Anthropocene, it explores “environmental rhetoric,” that is language that’s intentionally deployed; visual imagery; narrative form.