This study aimed at developing an Urdu version of the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSI) for use with Pakistani adolescents and young adults. For this purpose, the English BSI was translated into Urdu and tested for psychometric properties. The analyses were carried out with data from a sample of 904 adolescents and young adults from eight…

This article examines a view of site through postcolonial feminism to suggest that multiple and contradictory discourses of culture, location, gender and context are all vital in an understanding of a specific site when working with a community. These views are applied to a project undertaken with a group of Asian women in Britain exploring issues…

This paper describes the challenges faced, and rules devised, while dealing with bilingual interview data as part of a life history study of a female science teacher's conceptions of the nature of science while teaching in a school in Karachi. The interview data generated was both in Urdu and English, which underwent a number of processes…

The focus of this article is to examine the notions of language learning, heritage (referring to tradition) and ancestry (descendants & properties passed on), and cultural identification for Urdu-speaking immigrant children now living in Canada. This article provides a detailed ethnographic account of an innovative language program developed…

The study was conducted to find out effectiveness of contextual an, structural method of teaching vocabulary in English at secondary level. It was an experimental study in which the pretest posttest design was used. The population of the study was the students of secondary classes studying in Government secondary schools of Rawalpindi District.…

This school-based reflective narrative explores how one inner London primary school raised their awareness of the language needs of Advanced Bilingual Learners (ABL) through an emphasis on developing and celebrating pupils' first language skills alongside English. It stresses the central role of the teacher in planning language learning…

The major problem in cataloging Urdu names is in the identification of the personal name and the entry word. The author examines practices followed by various libraries, and then discusses the rules for entry. (28 references) (Author/SJ)

THIS DOCUMENT IS VOLUME 1, PART 1 OF A TWO-VOLUME TEXT IN BASIC CONVERSATIONAL HINDI-URDU. TWO UNITS OF STUDY, EACH SUBDIVIDED INTO THREE CONVERSATIONS WITH ATTENDANT PRONUNCIATION AND GRAMMAR DRILLS ARE PROVIDED. CONVERSATION AND DRILL TECHNIQUES ARE COMBINED WITH COLOR SLIDE SEQUENCES PHOTOGRAPHED IN APPROPRIATE NATIVE LOCALES. THE ATTEMPT HERE…

VOLUME 1, PART 2 OF A TWO-VOLUME TEXT IN BASIC CONVERSATIONAL HINDI-URDU CONSISTS OF TWO UNITS OF STUDY, EACH SUBDIVIDED INTO THREE CONVERSATIONS WITH ATTENDANT PRONUNCIATION AND GRAMMAR DRILLS. TWO PRECEDING UNITS OF STUDY WERE COVERED IN VOLUME 1, PART 1 (ED 010 447). A VOCABULARY GLOSSARY OF ALL FOUR UNITS OF VOLUME 1 APPEARS AT THE END OF THIS…

THIS PUBLICATION CONTAINS SIX UNITS OF BASIC HINDI-URDU STUDY, EACH UNIT CONSISTING OF TWO CONVERSATIONS. THE CONVERSATIONS REPRESENT TYPES OF CASUAL ENCOUNTERS IN WHICH THE PARTICIPANTS ARE SOCIAL EQUALS, RANGING FROM CASUAL MEETINGS DURING TRAVEL AND TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS TO INFORMAL "GET-TOGETHERS" AND SITUATIONS INVOLVING…

This indexed, annotated bibliography of 337 English language secondary sources for the study of Urdu literature since 1947 (excluding translations and words on Urdu language) attempts to give comprehensive coverage for periodicals, monographs, and compilations published since 1947. With a few exceptions, citations from weekly or daily publications…

THIS SECOND VOLUME OF A TWO-SEMESTER COURSE IN BEGINNING URDU CONTAINS VARIOUS TYPES OF TEXTS FOR READING--(1) FOUR BRIEF CONVERSATIONS DESIGNED TO SERVE AS MODEL LESSONS, WITH FULL GRAMMATICAL DISCUSSIONS, (2) TWENTY-SIX SHORT PROSE PIECES, FROM TEXTBOOKS, NEWSPAPERS, AND STANDARD ESSAYS, (3) TWO SELECTIONS EACH FROM THE KORAN AND THE BIBLE IN…

This study explores the way in which bilingual children of primary school age who have become dominant in English are learning to be literate in the language of the home using dual language books provided by the school. It reports on how the mothers and their children used both texts to transfer skills from one language to another; to negotiate…

This paper looks at current practice in teaching multilingual Indo-Fijian children in eight Fiji primary schools. Indo-Fijians speak Fiji Hindi (FH) as their mother tongue, learn Shudh Hindi (SH) or Urdu, and English for formal and literacy purposes and use English and Fijian for interethnic communication. The current education policy states that…

This volume is a "sampling" of the works of 18 living poets whom the author knew in Lahore, Pakistan between 1959 and 1962, and whom he considers to be representative of the style and quality of the "gazel" genre. Each selection appears in Urdu (Arabic script), with its English translation, and explanatory notes. The…