Where East Looks West
Success in English in Goa and the Konkan Coast
By (author) Prof. Dennis Kurzon
Publication date:
19 November 2003Publisher
Multilingual MattersDimensions:
210x148mm6x8"
ISBN-13: 9781853596742
The aim of the book is to explain the constant success in the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) of speakers of the Indian language, Konkani, who live in Goa and to the south of Goa. The evidence seems to point, although inconclusively, to historical and sociolinguistic factors, some of which pertain to India as a whole, while others are unique to the Konkani-speaking regions.