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Direct linkHsu, Tammy Huei-Lien – Language Testing, 2016
This study explores the attitudes of raters of English speaking tests towards the global spread of English and the challenges in rating speakers of Indian English in descriptive speaking tasks. The claims put forward by language attitude studies indicate a validity issue in English speaking tests: listeners tend to hold negative attitudes towards…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Download full textVarghese, Ashitha; Nagaraj, P. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2012
The low literacy rate of Scheduled Tribes is a serious threat to Indian education. It is significant even to Kerala, the state with highest literacy rate. The intensity of the problem is reflected by the SSLC (Secondary School Leaving Certificate) examination results of March 2010 where the Palakkad district has scored the less pass percentage of…
Descriptors: Indians, Tribes, Course Descriptions, English (Second Language)
Parekh, Suresh – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2006
Unfortunately, as far as the research on lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals in India is concerned, the situation is almost the same as it was in the 1980s. Why have Indian psychologists and psychiatrists avoided researching LGB youth? And, more importantly, why does this silence continue? The first and the foremost reasons are the stigma…
Descriptors: Negative Attitudes, Psychologists, Adolescents, Rural Areas
Biswas-Diener, Robert; Diener, Ed – Social Indicators Research, 2006
The current study assessed the subjective well-being of a broad spectrum of homeless people. One-hundred-and-eighty-six homeless people from the streets of Calcutta (India), California, and a tent camp in Portland (Oregon) were interviewed, and responded to measures of subjective well-being. They answered questions about life satisfaction,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Homeless People, Psychological Patterns
