Guidelines and Priorities: Telugu

Priorities in Ranked Order

  1. Completion of Narayana Rao’s 1st year textbook
  2. 2nd year textbook
  3. Reader with audio and video

Other Materials of Lower Priority

  • 2nd year dictionary of verbs
  • 2nd year audio and video

Materials of Satisfactory Quality Already Available

  • Bh. Krishnamurti and J.P.L. Gwynn's A grammar of modern Telugu

Suggestions Potentially of Interest for the Broader Pedagogical Materials Project

From the Group on Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, and Telugu.

  1. Annotated bibliographies of resources available for language teaching.
  2. Collaboration with the Central Institute of Indian Languages to refit some of their publications for use with U.S. students.
  3. The following might be examined as productive models and resources for pedagogy:
    • Marathi in Context, forthcoming.
    • Teaching Language in Context by Alice Omaggio Hadley.
  4. Make available Amar Chitra Katha comic books, published in all the major languages of India from Bombay by Anant Pai.
  5. Katha prize stories. Published annually since 1991. Contain stories translated into English from various Indic languages. The objective would be to collect the original short stories and augment them with glossaries for use in readers.
  6. Rapidex volumes for English instruction, mostly for the sake of the vocabularies, which might be used as core vocabularies. One example is the Bengali conversation and phrase book, Rapidex English speaking course. Delhi : Pustak Mahal, 1988.
  7. A vehicle for capturing Web documents in various idiosyncratic encoding systems and converting them to Unicode for use in language pedagogy.

Working group for Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, and Telugu.
Pedagogical Materials Project
March 7- 8, 2003
University of Pennsylvania