This edited volume Advances in Hindi Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics brings together some carefully carried out experimental studies which diverge to explore new possibilities in the field of Hindi language teaching and applied Hindi linguistics. The 16 peer-reviewed research papers that make up this book come from a range of empirical perspectives and are arranged into two parts. The first part of the book contains 9 pieces which provide a snapshot of current research on the teaching of Hindi as second or foreign language. As a result, the book consists of papers written by both SLA researchers and experienced teachers of Hindi as a foreign language who with their first-hand knowledge assess the effectiveness of various teaching methods used in the classrooms. The second part consists of 7 articles which deal with Hindi grammar, bilingualism and code-mixing in Hindi as well as usages of Hindi in Indian politics. Through their in-depth analysis of empirical data from Hindi syntax, Theban and Popârlan claim that the Hindi language exhibits some unique syntactic typological characteristics which no other language does which every linguist interested in typological studies should become aware of. In addition, the volume includes also a detailed account of the phonology of Kanauji, one of major dialects of Hindi. Together these papers provide a rich and comprehensive account of the vitality of current research on Hindi.Contents: Rajiv Ranjan: Challenges in Writing and Dynamic Corrective Feedback for Hindi Learners - Madri Kakoti: Examining acoustic space of vowels as a corresponding value to language proficiency level: A case study of the heritage learner of Hindi - Peter Friedlander: Teaching Hindi with comics -Vijay K. Kaul & Asiya Zahoor: An alternative approach for teaching Hindi structures to foreign learner groups -Nidhi Mahajan: Learning Hindi through popular songs - Premlata Vaishnava: Storytelling: Teaching language through literature and culture - Mohammad J. Warsi: Toward a more effective pedagogy: Film as a pedagogical tool
for teaching South Asian languages - Nora Melnikova: Hindi textbooks and Communicative Language Teaching in Central Europe - Pranjali Sirasao: Indian Folk Art in Hindi Language Teaching - Laurenţiu Theban & Sabina Popârlan: Description and Theoretical Utilization of Hindi Grammar in Romanian Linguistic Indology - Pankaj Dwivedi & Somdev Kar: Phonology of Kanauji - Satenik Mkhitaryan: Automatic identification of Hindi complex predicates for computer-aided reading tool - Sunil Kumar Bhatt: Bilingual situations in India: Power relations between languages analyzed through code-switching - Juhi Yasmeen & Shabana Hameed: Hindi and bilingualism: impacts of code-mixing in Hindi advertisements - Marijana Janjić: Hindi in the Lok Sabha: English parts, Hindi products - Anton Zykov: Modification of the Rajbhasha: simple vs pure Hindi and Narendra Modi’s Language – Index.
Ghanshyam Sharma
Hindi Indogermanistik Sprachwissenschaft