Dr. Sweta Sinha

Dr. Sweta Sinha has done her PhD (Linguistics) from Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi). Her doctoral thesis dealt with the phonological description of a lesser known Indian language: Magahi. She has taught courses like Language in Society, Nature of Language, Language Acquisition in Children and Classroom Management in Centre for Linguistics, JNU and B.El.ED Department of Miranda House College (Delhi University). She has worked on projects by Deptt. of Information Technology.Using her teaching and research experience she has written numerous research papers on the various aspects of language education in children. Many of her papers are being translated into Hindi for greater readership. She is of the view that language lays the foundation for a countrys bright and prosperous future. Language education is an important and vulnerable aspect of human civilization and great care must be taken by the language teachers to ensure healthy learning environment. Through this book she has tried to bring forth her observations on the aspects and issues of language education at elementary level. Her book Language Teaching at Elementary Level: Aspects and Issues (with special reference to ELT) aims to pave way for creating a general awareness among masses regarding language education in the Indian schools.