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| Year: | 1926 | ||||
| Short description: | West publishes 'Bilingualism' | ||||
| Medium description: | West publishes 'Bilingualism, with special reference to Bengal' in which he challenged the policy of 'filtering' of students throughout the Imperial education system which left only a small number of students to complete the higher stages. Stated the need for simple reading materials written with a controlled vocabulary. This was the result of extensive research by West in his capacity as an official in the Indian Education Service (Howatt, 1985). | ||||
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- Cowie, A. P. (1999). English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.6]
- Howatt, A. P. R. (1984). A History of English Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.215]
- Stern, H. H. (1983). Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.101]