Southern Asia at Chicago Collections

The World Wide Web and your computer can already display text in the scripts of most South Asian languages. What makes that possible is a system of digital encoding calle [...]

For language teachers today, the World Wide Web provides unprecedented access to new types of rich media content that can be used in the classroom. The aim of this articl [...]

Review of Usha Jain,Advanced Hindi Grammar, 2007

A Description of the Hindi-Urdu Flagship at U. of Texas with comments on its admission criteria, curriculum, study abroad program, method of assessment, and context.

Designing a syllabus exclusively for heritage language learners requires a thorough study of who the heritage learners are from the point of view of language pedagogy. A [...]

This paper examines two characteristics of the Indic writing system—the systematic arrangement of the phonemes and the presence of an inherent vowel—from the learner [...]

This study concerns the incorporation of culture into language teaching and the role of heritage students in teaching culture in the language classroom. Cultural factors [...]

This paper focuses on project-based instruction as an efficient way to address learners with varied backgrounds and levels of language skills. The goal is to provide exam [...]

The objective of this paper is to define and unfold the rich and complex category of heritage learners of Hindi so that teachers, program directors, and material develope [...]

The guest editor's introduction to the articles in the issue.

Editor's foreward to the first issue of South Asia Language Pedagogy and Technology.