This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

A simplified grammar of the Gujarati language: together with a short reading book and vocabulary.

Learn Gujarati In 30 Days Through English (Learn The National Language) is a book that shows you how you can make use of the English language to learn an Indian language, namely Gujarati. Not only can you learn this language in an easy way but you can also learn it within a short span of thirty days. The book has been split up into five sections, each of which include a number of chapters. The first unit, entitled Alphabet, includes introductory chapters such as Alphabet, Consonants, How to Write Alphabet, Conjuncts, Vowels and their Abbreviated Forms, The Parts of Speech, Gender, Number and Case and Declension of Nouns. The second unit is entitled Word and is all about grammatical concepts that include Pronoun, Verb, Adjective, Tense, Voice, The Kinds of secondary Verbs, Cardinal Numerals and Errors in spellings. The third section, is titled classified sentences and includes concepts such as Useful Expressions, Imperative Sentences, Future Tense, Present Tense, Past Tense, Interrogative Sentences and Negative Sentences. The fourth section is all about situational sentences and shows you how you can test your language skills in different settings. The chapters in this section are at Home, Foods and Drinks, Shopping, Hotel and Restaurant, Craftsmen, Post office/Telephone/Bank, Health and Hygiene, While Travelling, Weather and Time. The final section of this book is called Conversations. Its chapters show you how you can make use of the Gujarati you have learnt, to strike up a conversation in different places and among different groups of people. Helping you learn a new language within a span of 30 days, the bilingual edition of Learn Gujarati In 30 Days Through English (Learn The National Language) was published by Diamond Books in 2005 and is available in paperback. Key Features: The book includes situational questions and conversation topics.

Colloquial Gujarati provides a step-by-step course in Gujarati as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Gujarati in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Key features include: • progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills • structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar • an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises • realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios • useful vocabulary lists throughout the text • additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Gujarati will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Gujarati. Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

1.1 INTRODUCTION Education is the most powerful instrument to bring desirable changes in the students and the teacher is a change agent in the whole the process of education who prepares or trains the future generation to meet the challenges of modern society. Education helps in directing a person to do right things at right time at right place which makes more productive individual as well as the society. The future of the nation depends upon the quality of education. According to United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO, 2004), “The purpose of education is to ensure that all pupils acquires the knowledge, skills and values necessary for the cognitive development of learners to nurture the creative and emotional growth of learners, to oppose discrimination against any particular group in any manner or, in other words, leads towards and equitable society.” Language plays an important role for the transaction of knowledge through teaching learning process. “Language as a vehicle of communication is very crucial on the process of education it is through language that everything is taught and learnt in a majority of teaching learning including the classroom.”