Journal of English Language Teaching

Against the Experts

V. Robert Bellarmine

(Formerly) English Studies Officer, British Council, India

Keywords: Talk

Abstract

Edited transcript of a talk given in 2013 in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036. Bellarmine retired as English Studies Officer of the British Council in India in 1997. Earlier, he taught at the Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. He had studied in Madurai and in Edinburgh. Besides teaching “slum children” under his “Teaching English to the Disadvantaged” (TED) Project, funded, among others, by The Hindu group of publications, he has conducted numerous communication seminars for executives in industries. Robert is one of the few progressivethinkers in ELT in India.