NPTEL : NOC:Language and Society (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Rajesh Kumar


Lecture 1 - Introduction to language and society

Lecture 2 - Language and India

Lecture 3 - Language and a language

Lecture 4 - Language, dialect and variety

Lecture 5 - Dialect and standard language

Lecture 6 - How do children learn language?

Lecture 7 - First language acquisition

Lecture 8 - Critical period and SLA

Lecture 9 - Sounds and words

Lecture 10 - Sentence

Lecture 11 - India as a linguistic area

Lecture 12 - Language variation

Lecture 13 - Language and culture

Lecture 14 - Language and power- politics

Lecture 15 - Indian english

Lecture 16 - Fluidity and continuum

Lecture 17 - Language in education

Lecture 18 - Language and scholastic achievement

Lecture 19 - Language and language teaching

Lecture 20 - Concluding remarks