There are many individuals who are involved in the preparation of Kannada Bridge Course at its various stages. It is difficult to list them all individually but we are grateful to all of them. However, special mention of gratitude must be made to the members of the Advisory Committee of the Project.

We thank the authors and publishers who granted permission to use their materials in the Bridge Course.

We express our appreciation to the Vice-Chancellors of the Mysore, Bangalore and Karnataka Universities who encouraged us by permitting us to conduct pre- and post-tests in the colleges and in giving training to their lecturers to administer the Bridge Course.

Our thanks are due to the Principals and Lecturers of various colleges in Karnataka who helped us in selecting the students in administering the tests and in giving the Bridge Course to them.

Mrs. Jyotsna P. Dave, andMr. B.D. Jayaram of CIIL assisted us in Statistical analysis of the data. Mr. V. Ramachandra Rao of R.C.E. helped us in carefully going through the manuscript. Drawing work was done by Mr. N.H. Itagi, of CIIL. We are thankful to all of them.

Our thanks are also due to Mr. H.L.N. Bharati of CIIL who saw this book through the press.

The teams of staff who were involved in conducting the Project
Central Institute of Regional Colleges of Education
Indian Languages

Dr. D.P. Pattanayak, Director Miss. A. Chari, Principal4

Dr. H.S. Biligiri, Deputy Director1 Dr. Praful N. Dave
Professor of Education

Dr. U.P. Upadhyaya, Research Officer2 Dr. U.R. Ananthamurthy,
Reader in English5

Dr. K.V.V.L. Narasimha Rao, Shri L. Viswanath, Reader in English
Research Officer

Dr. Susheela P. Upadhyaya,3
Research Assistant in Linguistics

Shri S.V. Varada Bhatta Char,
Research Assistant in Educational Psychology

1. At Present Reader in Linguistics, Deccan College, Poona.
2. At Present Visiting Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal, West Africa.
3. At Present in Dakar, Senegal, west Africa.
4. At present Commissioner, Central Schools Organisation, Ministry of Education, New Delhi.
5. At present Reader in English, University of Mysore.