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About
Rama Kant Agnihotri, D.Phil. (York) retired as Professor and Head, Dept of Linguistics at the University of Delhi, Delhi. He is interested in and has taught and written extensively about Applied Linguistics, Morphology, Sociolinguistics and Research Methods for several years. He has lectured in Germany, UK, USA, Canada, Yemen, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan, among other countries. He has also been working with several NGOs across India in the area of primary school education. He co-edits, with A. L. Khanna, the Sage series on Applied Linguistics. He has also published books from Routledge, OUP, Multilingual Matters, Orient BlackSwan, Ratna Sagar among others. He was the Chairperson of the NCERT’s (National Council of Educational Research and Training) National Focus Group on the teaching of Indian Languages. He is at present Professor Emeritus at Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur.

AREAS OF SPECIALISATION

 * Sociolinguistics
 * Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching and ELT
 * Language and Education
 * Research Methodology
 * Literacy and Primary Education
 * Morphology

RECENT PROJECTS

 * Faculty and Resource Person for the Tata Institute of Social Science MA in Education Programme
 * Feedback Study of Indradhanush Elementary School Textbooks published by SCERT, Delhi (in collaboration with Janaki Rajan and A L Khanna with inputs from a large number of teams and investigators)
 * Textbooks in English for Rural Children, Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur
 * Selection of Materials for Elementary School Children, Eklavya, Hoshanganbad
 * Textbook Project on Applied Linguistics (with A L Khanna)
 * UGC Major Research Project on Acquisition of Reading and Writing Abilities in Literacy Programmed (With A L Khanna, A Mukherjee and Sadhna Saxena)
 * Editing a collection of papers (with M K Verma) by Prof R B Le Page, University of York, UK (likely to be published by Sage)
 * Coordinator for the Language, Mind and Society paper in the TISS, Mumbai project in developing the MA
 * Education programme in Hindi.
 * Consultant, UNICEF, Bhopal Project on the Status of Girls&amp;#39; Education in MP

ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP

 * The Linguistics Society of India.
 * Dravidian Linguistics Association.
 * Delhi University Linguistics Association
 * AILA
 * International Group for the Study of Language Standardization and the Vernacularization of Literacy(IGSLSVL)
 * Indian Association of Canadian Studies
 * International Reading Association