PANAJI: Speaker of the Goa Assembly Pratapsinh Rane feels there is a need to introduce English from Std III in schools, along with the vernacular languages as medium of instruction, to give students, ...

As far back as George Bernard Shaw’s fictional professor Henry Higgins, language experts have argued that low-income students who learn to switch from speaking a dialect to using standard English have ...

TEACHING ENGLISH as a first language is not easy—many youngsters leave school feeling they never quite mastered its finer points. Recently some commentators have been wondering whether the standard ...

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