{"product_id":"post-colonial-curriculum-practices-in-south-asia","title":"Post-colonial Curriculum Practices in South Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003ePost-colonial Curriculum Practices in South Asia gives a conceptual framework for curriculum design for English Language Teaching, taking into account context specific features in the teaching–learning settings of post-colonial South Asia. It reveals how the attitudes prevalent in post-colonial South Asian societies towards English negatively influence English language learning. The book provides a comprehensive analysis to design a course for English language teaching that aims at building learner confidence to speak English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on original research, the study covers Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The book focuses on the context-specific nature of learners and considers a curriculum design that binds teaching materials and teaching methods together with an aligned assessment. Chapters discuss language attitudes, learner characteristics and English in the context of native languages, and introduce a special type of anxiety that stems from existing language attitudes in a society, referred to as Language Attitude Anxiety. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book will appeal to doctoral and post-doctoral scholars in English language education, students and researchers of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics as well as curriculum designers of ELT and language policy makers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54247911424344,"sku":"9780815355526","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780815355526_c55a88e5-dcbd-4d1b-8316-b23ae808c39b.jpg?v=1777808753","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/post-colonial-curriculum-practices-in-south-asia","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}