The present book aimed at serving as a text book at the Advanced level of learning Telugu as a Second Language taught at the Southern Regional Language Centre (CIIL) besides being helpful for other learners of Telugu as L, elsewhere too. It aims at providing the learners with the crucial aspects of Telugu Language and its culture, Land, Literature, Customs and habits of the Telugus and other socio-cultural aspects. Topics dealt with in this volume have been worked out based long drawn experience of scholars in the area of Telugu as Second Language, some of them having had lots of experience in the Southern Regional Language Centre itself for more than 2 to 3 decades. It has been edited by Dr. G. Prabhakar, RRO in Telugu in the Southern Regional Language Centre who specializes in planning, designing, directing and implements L, teaching programs in the major Dravidian Languages especially in Telugu. It is hoped that this volume will serve as mini-encyclopedia for L, learners of Telugu both at the Centre and elsewhere and meet the aims behind working out this volume.
G. Prabhakar is currently working as RRO at the Southern Regional Language Centre (CIIL). He has been associated with the SRLC-CIIL ever since 1995. He possesses a Ph.D. in Socio-Linguistics and has been actively engaged in designing, directing and conducting 2 Language Teaching Programmes in 4 Dravidian languages and more so in Telugu. He is a recipient of 5 Awards including 02 from the Andhra Pradesh State Government Awards. He has to his credit 11 books and about 16 Research articles. G. Prabhakar was also nominated as a member for Classical Telugu Committee, Government of Andhra Pradesh. He was also invited as a Chief Guest from Andhraday Celebrations of Mauritius in 2009. His Wide Experience in the area of L2 Instructions as the led the way to edit the Present volume based on long years of Experience in the organisation.
K. Ramesh was Telugu faculty member in SRLC. He has specialization in classical Telugu literature. He is presently working as Senior Fellow in Center of Excellence for Studies in Classical Telugu at CIIL, Mysuru. He has expertise in the areas of need based grammar teaching and situation oriented functional discourse to the second language learners.
The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) celebrates its Golden Jubilee this year after completing 50 years of excellence. The Institute was established on July 17, 1969 by the Government of India in Mysuru to help in evolving and implementing the language policy of the Government and to coordinate the development of Indian Languages by conducting research in the areas of language analysis, language pedagogy, language technology and language use in the society.
It began its journey with several units of research such as Tribal and Border Languages, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Material Production and Training, Testing and Evaluation, Educational Technology, Lexicography and Translation, Cartography, Folklore and Computer Applications. In addition to this, seven Regional Language Centres were set up at Mysuru, Patiala, Bhubaneswar, Pune, Lucknow, Solan and Guwahati with a goal of implementing the three-language formula and thereby contribute to national integration. These Centres offer a 10-month Diploma in Language Education in second languages and teach 20 Indian languages to non-native speakers mainly to in-service teachers, prospective teachers, research scholars and general public. CIIL was one of the few institutions that initiated work on natural language processing in the early 1990s. It has interdisciplinary academic collaborations with various institutions at both national and international levels. The Institute is well-recognised by the academic fraternity across the globe for the quality of its wide-ranging linguistic research and language studies.
The Advanced Course Text Book in Telugu is to be used as class room teaching/learning material for the teacher trainees of the Southern Regional Language Center, CIIL, Mysuru. This text is to be used at the advanced stage of the ten month's Intensive Course in Telugu. It could also be used by any learner of Telugu at a later stage of his/her learning the language.
Learning a language at the advanced stage in a total intensive programme involves sharpening the skills already achieved at the basic stage and also for developing the creativity in the learner. What are the priorities of learning the language at the advanced stage? It is expected that (i) the learner should be made to develop an interest in the literature of the target language, appreciate the literary works of the target language and kindle in him/her an urge to know more about the literary trends in the target language (ii) the learner should be made to utilize the skills already learnt at the lower levels (iii) the focus should be to exploit the thematic content and language of the material available and extend it further. For instance teaching poetry and story could be utilized for various purposes: (i) it could increase the learner's vocabulary, both current and archaic (ii) create sensitivity to rhyme and rhythm, which would help comprehension (iii) since poetry uses repetition and alliteration, it could be remembered very easily.
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