Chandra, Pritha and Sahoo, Anindita
(2014)
Learning puzzles with Indian english tags.
Language and Language Teaching, 3 (2).
pp. 8-13.
ISSN 2277-307X
Abstract
Second language learning (L2) is a unique and
interesting domain of research. Most learners
have an existing knowledge of one or more first
languages (L1), which sometimes aids and
sometimes hinders the acquisition of a new
language. We present here, the case of Indian
English question tags that seem to have been
influenced by both ‘standard’ (American and
British) English and Hindi-Urdu, and yet exhibit
some unique features. Our primary contentions
are, (a) Indian English has its own grammatical
system, and (b) the learning of Indian English
does not crucially rely on the learners’ first
language competence1
.
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