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 is an Associate Professor of Hindi and Urdu. He received his PhD in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) from the University of Iowa in 2016 and has taught Hindi and Urdu in the U.S. since 2010, both in the classroom and online. He taught an immersion program for the South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught in a study abroad context for the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) in India. He is the author of the open educational resource (OER) textbooks Basic Hindi and Basic Urdu. His primary research area is generative approaches to SLA, and his interests also include socio-cultural approaches to SLA, second language writing and speaking, language pedagogy, and morpho-syntax.
Courses taught:
Selected Publications:
- 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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