Faculty
Our faculty is comprised of expert scholars and educators in the fields of Yoga Studies, Indology, Religious Studies, and South Asian Studies.
Dr. Rajiv Ranjan
Assistant Professor of Hindi and Urdu, Michigan State University
Dr. Rajiv Ranjan is a professor of Hindi and Urdu language at Michigan State University. He received his PhD in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) from the University of Iowa in 2016. He has been teaching Hindi and Urdu languages in the U.S. since 2010. In addition to his classroom-teaching experience, Rajiv has also taught online at MSU and at Kean University. He taught an immersion program for the South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and he has also taught in a study abroad context for the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) in India.
Rajiv has published an Open Educational Resource (OER) Hindi textbook Basic Hindi I. Rajivās primary area of research is generative approaches to SLA. His research interests also include socio-cultural approaches to SLA, second language writing and speaking, language pedagogy, and morpho-syntax.
Courses taught:Ā
Selected Publications:Ā
- 2018. "Challenges in Writing and Dynamic Corrective Feedback for Hindi Learners. Advances" in Hindi Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (edited by Ghanshyam Sharma), LINCOM-EUROPA, Munich, Germany. ISBN 9783862889020.
- 2017. Hindi-Urdu. University of Minnesota.
- 2013. Teaching Strategies of Grammatical Gender in L2 Hindi/Urdu. Arizona Working Papers in SLA & Teaching, 20, 1-19.
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