Perspective on the impact of the second language on the underprivileged (Rural & urban) engineering students of Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

India is a young country with lots of opportunities and possibilities to flourish and enjoy the worldwide information. The youth, particularly, in India is growing up within a world of inescapable technology as the first generation learners. The medium of exchanging the information has changed; now the information exchange takes place through Facebook, Twitter, Emails, YouTube, WhatsApp and so on, to communicate and disseminate information and knowledge with others. This contemporary generation wants to transgress themselves from the local linguistic barriers and their chief aim is to get maximum benefit of the opportunities available in the market. They wish to improve their communication skills as the world has become global market due to the needs and changes in the broad field of economy, business, education and other thing. The idea of writing this paper is a result of a speculation made by my students of both undergraduate and post graduate level in university. I conceptualized this paper based on my classroom teaching experience at university level with a diversified student group. I tried to investigate their social, economic, cultural and psychological attitude of their early life and its effect in their stimulation of second language acquisition. I, through this paper, illustrate how demographic conditions affect the second language learning process.