মঙাল- Mangaal: An Advanced Course Reader in Manipuri (A Textbook for Manipuri L₂ Learners)

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Mangaal is an Advanced Course Reader in Manipuri language for Diploma in Language Education. As per syllabus of CIIL, this Reader includes various domains of literature viz, short story, poem, drama (one act play), travelogue, essay, humorous essay, biography, auto biography, etc. Most of the topics are selected from the writings of Sahitya Akademi awardees.

This book contains a set of twenty-two lessons. The primary aim of teaching these lessons is to acquaint Manipuri L, learners with the colloquial forms of the language used in different contexts and different literary-socio-cultural aspects associated with the linguistic community.

Hidam Dolen Singh has been teaching Manipuri language as an L, in North Eastern Regional Language Centre, Guwahati since 2006. He has attended many workshops including teaching material productions conducted by CIIL. as a resourse person since last couple of decades and presented many papers in national and international seminars. He has published a Manipuri Dictionary.

The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) celebrates its Golden Jubilee this year after completing 50 years of excellence. The Institute was established on July 17, 1969 by the Government of India in Mysuru to help in evolving and implementing the language policy of the Government and to coordinate the development of Indian Languages by conducting research in the areas of language analysis, language pedagogy, language technology and language use in the society.

It began its journey with several units of research such as Tribal and Border Languages, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Material Production and Training, Testing and Evaluation, Educational Technology, Lexicography and Translation, Cartography, Folklore and Computer Applications. In addition to this, seven Regional Language Centres were set up at Mysuru, Patiala, Bhubaneswar, Pune, Lucknow, Solan and Guwahati with a goal of implementing the three-language formula and thereby contribute to national integration. These Centres offer a 10-month Diploma in Language Education in second languages and teach 20 Indian languages to non-native speakers mainly to in-service teachers, prospective teachers, research scholars and general public. CIIL was one of the few institutions that initiated work on natural language processing in the early 1990s. It has interdisciplinary academic collaborations with various institutions at both national and international levels. The Institute is well-recognised by the academic fraternity across the globe for the quality of its wide-ranging linguistic research and language studies.