Chowdhury Bakul Chandra. Classified Recall Vocabulary in Bengali

Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, 2000. — 321 p.It is helpful for a second language learner to have a tool for ready reference of words that an educated speaker has in different semantic contexts. This will be a bigger stock than the basic vocabulary and can function as a working list. With this view, the regional Language Centres of the CLIL have prepared Recall Vocabularies in the regional languages. While preparing these, the authors - faculty members of the Centres were given a list of various semantic groups and were asked to recall as many vocabulary items as could be covered under each semantic group.
The recalling process had to be done in 2 to 3 weeks time and no reference material was used for recalling so that the words which were naturally recalled by the educated native speakers were obtained. Since it is the result of one speaker's recalling process depending on his background we may find some pluses and minuses. But it certainly helps to have a s basic material for the language learners and writers of text books. In the recall process it is natural that both active and some of the passive vocabulary items have come and they have been included. Some times, words that are purely dialectal or those which are less frequent and even some archaic words also have made their appearances. All these show the variety in the recalling process.
Though this book is prepared primarily as a supplementary material for the adult second language learners of Bengali in the Eastern Regional Language Centre of the CLIL, we present this before all learners and teachers of Bengali to use it as a meaningful tool.