Post-colonial curriculum practices in South Asia : building confidence to speak English / Asantha Attanayake.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Background -- The sudy -- Language attitude anxiety -- Understanding the English language learner -- Fighting fire with fire -- Experimental course design and material -- Teaching methodology and the role of the teacher -- Assessment -- Course evaluation -- Language attitudes as an academic discourse -- Conclusions.

"Post-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"-- Provided by publisher.