Category Archives: Books

Freedom from Imperial Shackles, A comprehensive sourcebook for the teaching of English (2016),

Freedom from Imperial Shackles, A comprehensive sourcebook for the teaching of English (2016), Mathrubhumi Publications, Kozhikode. Facilitating Discourse Construction in Second language, paper published in The causes and consequences of launching Discourse Orineted Pedagogy in the states of Kerala in the year 2007, and in Andhra Pradesh in 2011 create the backdrop of this book.

Tuition to Intuition: The Constructivist Perspective on second Language Pedagogy (2006)

Tuition to Intuition: The Constructivist Perspective on second Language Pedagogy (2006) Transcend, Calicut University, P.O., Kerala. Tuition to Intuition captures the various theoretical postulates of Anandan’s cognitive Interactionist Approach in second language pedagogy. His claims on second language acquisition, derives inputs from Chomsky’s UG theory, SLA theories (Krashen, Cook), Gestalt theory (Wertheimer, Kaffka), humanistic theories […]

Bhasha Sasthrathile Chomskyan Viplavam (2006) – (The Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics)

Bhasha Sasthrathile Chomskyan Viplavam (2006) (The Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics), Kerala Bhasha Institute. (http://www.keralabhashainstitute.org/) This title won the Kerala Sahithya Academy Endowment Award in 2006. This book written in Malayalam presents a historical perspective on account of Chomskyan model of linguistics tracing its evolution from Syntactic Structures (1957) to Minimalist Theory(2000). The main concepts discussed […]