I like to believe I 'accidentally' became a language teacher. Four years ago, I was pursuing a Masters in English Literature at the University of Delhi in India. An inherent sense of wanderlust made me apply for the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA) in my final year. And as fate would have it, I got selected and ended up teaching my native language, Hindi, to Undergraduate Students at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, for a year. The experience was enriching in more ways than one. But, I think it most importantly changed the course of my professional and academic career. I was convinced that teaching languages is what I want to (and can) do for the rest of my life! Last two years of working as an English lecturer at the National Institute of Sanskrit (Bhopal) in India, has only strengthened this belief.
The purpose of this blog is to share ideas and knowledge with people who are as passionate about teaching languages as I am. Although my ultimate goal is to find interactive, effective and learner-centric ways of teaching college level English in India, I see this blog as a platform to learn form and contribute to the vast repertoire of knowledge available on language teaching.
