Where East Looks West

Success in English in Goa and the Konkan Coast

By (author) Prof. Dennis Kurzon

Ebook (VitalSource) - £8.33

Publication date:

19 November 2003

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

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.