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Acknowledgments
I wish to record my sense of gratitude to the entire Yale team, par- ticularly to Mary Jane Peluso, publisher, whose sustained encour- agement enabled the whole project to reach fruition; to Jeffrey Schier, manuscript editor, whose meticulous care made the manu- script more readable; and to Emily Saglimbeni for her efficient sup- port work. It has been a pleasure to work with them all.
My debt to those who have contributed to the thinking under- lying this book is immeasurable. I cannot mention them all here, but they include professors R. N. Ghosh, N. Krishnaswamy, N. S. Prabhu, and M. L. Tickoo at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in India, where I was initiated into English lan- guage teaching; professors Dick Allwright, Mike Breen, and Chris Candlin at the University of Lancaster in England, where I contin- ued my academic interest; and professors Alton Becker, Susan Gass, and Larry Selinker at the University of Michigan, where I completed my formal education. My personal and professional association with these colleagues have immensely shaped and reshaped my own ped- agogic orientation. I also owe a debt to my past and present gradu- ate students—too many to name here—who argued with me, chal- lenged me, and forced me to clarify my thoughts, thereby making me a better teacher and a better thinker.
Always supportive of my academic ambitions, my family mem- bers—Arunagiri, Velliangiri, Janaki, and Gowri—have encouraged me to go where they have never gone before. My wife, Revathi, her- self an academic, has always been there for me, offering me profes- sional critique and personal care. Our two little children, Chandrika and Anand, have not only happily adjusted to the demands of their professorial parents but have also created for us a joyous space outside our demanding professional pursuits. To all of them, I say: Thank you.