With funding from the A.S. Hornby Educational Trust, a project is underway to map and selectively digitize resources relevant to the history of English language education in India, as well as to promote research in this area. To this end, a group at the University of Warwick led by Prof. Richard Smith is collaborating with a team in India led by Prof. Amol Padwad (Centre for English Language Education, Dr B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi) (2022 onwards). Resources will be added to this page as they become available for use in the project.

 

1) Resources digitized from the Warwick ELT Archive collection

The British Council. 1950. The Teaching of English as a Foreign Language: A Report on the British Council Summer Conference Held at Government House, Mahableshwar, India, 3rd to 13th May 1950Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, [Digitized from our collection earlier for the British Council's Milestones in ELT series].

Patel, M.S. (Ed.) (1958). Report of the Seminar on English Teaching Jointly Sponsored by the All-India Council for Secondary Education and the Department of Education, Bombay State, Held at Baroda from October 31st to November 9, 1958Link opens in a new window. Faculty of Education & Psychology, University of Bareda.

Spencer, D.H. (British Council, Bombay) (1959). Interpretation and explanation of the syllabus for Std. IXLink opens in a new window. Journal of Education & Psychology (Baroda),16(4), 452–458. [from Dakin Collection]

National Council of Educational Research and Training. (Ed.) (1963). The Teaching of English in India: Report of the Conference on the Teaching of English in Schools. Delhi, April 15 to 20, 1963Link opens in a new window. National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi.

 

2) Bibliographies with links to resources

Works by Michael West – and secondary literature about him.Link opens in a new window

See also Michael West archiveLink opens in a new window.

 

3) Project webinars

Insights for English Language Education from Historical Research’. Inaugural webinar by Richard Smith for the History of English Language Education – India Research Group / AINET Association of English Teachers, 22 July 2022.

Webinar series (27 May-10 June 2023): 'Appropriate methodology for Bangladesh and elsewhere: How appropriate are Michael West's ideas today?' Organized by Bangladesh English Language Teachers Association (BELTA) in association with the A.S. Hornby Educational Trust and the Warwick ELT Archive. Videos: Webinar 1; Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowWebinar 2Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window; Webinar 3Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window.