Multilingualism in India

Multilingualism in India
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Multilingualism in India
Part 1: Proposal
India is one of the unique countries when it comes to language use. The country is large with diverse cultures, reflecting the language's richness and language use policies. Almost every Indian understands and uses two or more languages. While Hindi is considered the national language, it is often a blanket collection of other languages that sometimes have a relationship with each other. Apart from the local dialects, India also understands English, also the national language alongside Hindi. However, English is the language of education and international business, while regional dialects are the languages of everyday use. Another strain of English is not formal enough and used in conversations and other social engagements. Therefore, the language used depends on the context, the place, and the people using the language. Thus, the research proposal seeks to understand how the English language is used in different Indian institutions such as government, business, schools, and media.
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How have government policies in language and education influenced multilingualism in India, including language use in formal and social contexts?
Annotated Bibliography
Mallikarjun, B. (2019). Multilingualism in 21st century India. Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow Volume 19: 9 September 2019 ISSN 1930-2940, 148.
Mallikarjun (2019), Indian multilingualism is an issue of cultural fusions and the unique situation that India finds itself with the issues of colonialism since the unique education, geography, and language policy means that people share languages.
Tsimpli, I., Mukhopadhyay, L., Treffers-Daller, J., Alladi, S., Marinis, T., Panda, M., Balasubramanian, A., & Sinha, P. (2019). Multilingualism and multiliteracy in primary education in India: A discussion of methodological challenges of an interdisciplinary research project. Research in Comparative and International Education, 14(1), 54-76.
Tsimpli et al., 2019 focus on the challenges that educators face when dealing with the development of curriculum and the outcomes for the learners. Multilingualism in India is a blessing and a curse for the education system. Due to massive multilingualism, language outcomes in English which are the language of education, are often impacted. While multilingualism is hailed as a good thing, it is important to understand the trouble that curriculum developers have in developing the right institutions to meet the unique situation in the education setting.
Aronin, L., & Singleton, I. D. (2018). What is Multilingualism? In David Singleton and Larissa Aronin (eds.), Twelve Lectures in Multilingualism. (pp. 3-34). Bristol: Multilingual Matters. -matters.com/display.asp?isb=
Multilingualism in society and education has been a unique phenomenon, and even though efforts have been made to study the phenomenon, nothing has been clear-cut. The elucidations on the subject provide a succinct understanding of the concept of multilingualism and how individuals' multilingualism and societal multilingualism are o...