History of ELT in India with an emphasis on postcolonial needs is the prime focal point. A call for indigenous ELT theories against the imitation of western theories, use of Quality Management principles as tools and sample case studies form an integral part of the study. The gaps identified with the current practices and remedial measures have been recorded. Market Research by Team Lease services, a recruitment agency based in India has been suportive to the findings of the case studies. The work has necessitated the need to design ELT curriculum with market needs and global demands using...

The volume has 8 research articles that unearth potential women's issues in Indian/American/New zealand writings. Tribal issues, ecological issues, socio-cultural issues and political issues are the sites of contest. The suppression of women for ages and the resultant matriarchal patterns in society, which create social imbalances are highlited to achieve balance between the two extremes of patriarchy and matriarchy.

Relationship between linguistics and literature study is widely discussed in contemporary literary theory. Linguistics has enormously contributed towards the growth of modern literary theory. Nineteenth century linguists were interested in the ways in which languages change across the ages. This book tries to explain Structuralism, Post Structuralism and Post Modernism and attempts to apply the theories to literary texts to explain some of the concepts in context. Structuralism began in the 1950s and 1960s sown in the thinking of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857 - 1913)....

African American have gad a long battle against oppression. The burden of colour and race add to this problem and life had become one long struggle to find one's moorings.When negotiations, Bills and Laws failed to give them their status, they had to seek outlets for their emotions. Starting with a feeble voice, they went to register their protest with such an intensity that they made it sure that they were heard. The sense of inferiority plaguing them had to be substituted by something concrete and stable. Literary writing was the most effective form. Aesthetics cannot be seen in isolation...