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Cultural Studies : Workshop by 'Dr. Kalyani Vallath'...

Hello Readers , Here I'm going to share my review about the Workshop which was planned by our HOD [Department of English, MKBU.] The whole workshop was about Cultural studies. The chief guest was 'Dr. Kalyani Vallath'  who came from Kerala. ● Let me introduce first Dr. Kalyani Vallath :- Dr. Kalyani Vallath is an educational entrepreneur, editor and teacher of English literature from India. Vallath compiled A Contemporary Encyclopedia of British Literature and runs Total English Solutions in Thiruvananthapuram to help teach English to people living in rural parts of India. As an educational entrepreneur, Dr Kalyani Vallath has moulded the careers of hundreds of young professors in India and has contributed significantly to English literature studies at graduate and postgraduate levels. It is with an unconventional, innovative and democratic perspective that she has built up an interdisciplinary and learner-centered educational methodology and a career of her own

Survey : DELL Software

Hello Readers, Here is my thinking activity according to the following link... Click here.. ● Introduction:-  The language laboratories are now a days becoming more and more benificial and even better valued within the educational institutes. The functions and the potentialities they offer are much higher than the once in the traditional teaching-learning system. The language lab is a dedicated space for foreign language learning. It is the massive platform to learn a foreign language. It helps to enhanced our 4 basic skills [LSRW] in order to enhance our Second language. ● Development of Language lab:-   In medieval times , people used to language lab with recorded taps. Through the use of cassette or a recorder people got the knowledge. The tap usually contains text or a story which is aloud by the native speaker. Then the time changes , the idea or technology developed. CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning). This is one of the most modern speech laborator

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  is a Nigerian novelist, writer of short stories and non fiction. She has written the novels like, “Purple Hibiscus”, “Half of a Yellow Sun” and “Americanah”. She has also written poems and essay. She also won “MacArthur Fellowship” award. She is very good speaker and story teller also. She has such a speaking skills which can catch and keep the attention of audience. In every story she gave her personal touch and then connect it with the point she wants to make. Here I’m sharing my views on her three talks, one at Ted Talk on “Dangers of Single Story” another Tedx Talk on ”We all Should be Feminist” and third one at Harvard University on “Truth”. There is always two sides of coin, if you know only one your knowledge is incomplete and dangerous also. This is what she talks about in her Ted Talk on “Dangers of Single Story”. She told that how a single story narrated differently every time conditioned the mind of people to think about certain things in a

Arundhati Roy's Novels

Hello Readers, Here is my thinking activity which I have shared and given according to this below link... Click here... Firstly I want to introduce that Who is Arundhati Roy? ◆ Arundhati Roy: Arundhati Roy full name Suzanna Arundhati Roy, Born November 24, 1961, Shillong, Meghalaya, India. She is an Indian author, actress and political activity who was best known for the award-winning novel... The God of Small Things [1997]  and for her involvement in environmental and human rights causes. ◆ The God of Small Things :

Thinking activity : Education and Technology

This blog is the part of my classroom thinking activity which is given by our professor ... The task is given in this below link.. Click here.. ● Introduction :- Technology has the ability to enhance relationships between teachers and students. When teachers effectively integrate technology into subject areas, teachers grow into roles of adviser, content expert, and coach. Technology helps make teaching and learning more meaningful and fun.    So , let's see some of the glimpse of education, technology and ELT  through these below videos :- 1. Sir Ken Robinson : Changing Paradigm    Every country on Earth, at the moment is reforming public education. There are 2 reasons for it... 1. Economic :- That How do we educate our children to take their place in the economics of the 21st century? Given that we can't anticipate what the economy will look like at the end of the next week. 2. Culture     We are forced to memorize perfect answers and co

Thinking activity : How native represented by colonizer in "A Grain of Wheat" and Character study of "Robinson Crusoe"..

Here is my thinking activity which is given by our mam from Department of English {MKBU}. ◆ Introduction :-    The whole blog is about that how native represented by colonizer in " A Grain of Wheat" novel which is written by Ngugi Wa Thiongo. The African writer who constantly in the struggle of their native freedom and also talked about that how Africans suffering from the colonizer and their all are the victim of that.    In a same way "Robinson Crusoe" novel written by Daniel Defoe. In this novel we can also see the context of colonizer and colonized character which represent through this novel. ◆ Representation of native by colonizer in "A Grain of Wheat" & "Robinson Crusoe":- Here in both the novel we can see that how colonizer and colonized people represented. In Robinson Crusoe the character named Friday who is the black colonised man & Crusoe who is a colonizer. The novel talked about how master-slave relationship occur.

Total Physical Response [TPR]

To evaluate my assignment  Click here.. Name: Vidhya Pandya Semester: MA – 3 Roll No: 32 Paper No:- 12 English language Teaching - [ELT]1 Enrolment No: 2069108420190031 Email id: vidhupandya10497@gamil.com Year: 2018 -20 Submitted to: Department of English , Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. Assignment's topic: Total Physical Response [Method] ● Background:- Total physical response widely considered as “TPR”. This method developed by James Asher. Total Physical Response (TPR) is a language teaching method built around the coordination of speech and action; it attempts to teach language through physical (motor) activity. Developed by James Asher, a professor of psychology at San Jose State University, California, it draws on several traditions, including developmental psychology, learning theory, and humanistic pedagogy, as well as on language teaching procedures proposed by Harold and Dorothy Palmer in 1925. Let us briefly consider these precedents to

Orientalism and Occidentalism by Edward Said..

To evaluate my assignment  Click here.. Name: Vidhya Pandya Semester: MA – 3 Roll No: 32 Paper No:-11 The Post-Colonial Literature Enrolment No: 2069108420190031 Email id: vidhupandya10497@gamil.com Year: 2018 -20 Submitted to: Department of English , Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. Assignment's topic: Orientalism and Occidentalism by Edward Said # Introduction:- Said was a Palestinian born in Jerusalem in 1935 , and was educated in Cairo before continuing his studies and developing his career in America . His work is distinctive in the sense that , in his role as “public intellectual” , he combines literary criticism with politics and cultural philosophy , and accomplishes the unusual achievement of moving seamlessly between these discrete levels of analysis and in addressing as a result a board audience of both specialised academics and the general public . Critics have tended to focus either on his academic and literary critical writhing or on

Hawthorne as a symbolist with reference to " The Scarlet Letter".

To evaluate my assignment  Click here.. Name: Vidhya Pandya Semester: MA – 3 Roll No: 32 Paper No:- 10 The American Literature Enrolment No: 2069108420190031 Email id: vidhupandya10497@gamil.com Year: 2018 -20 Submitted to: Department of English , Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. Assignment's topic: Write a note on Hawthorne as a symbolist with reference to “ The Scarlet Letter.” ◆ Introduction :- Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most creative writer for symbolism in the American literature. And to understand the meaning of his works we have to understand the whole symbols which used by him in his works. “ The Scarlet Letter” is the novel regarded as the first symbolic novel which published in United States. Hawthorne's symbols are indeed a significant one. Mostly writers used to use the symbols and through that they want to expose the harsh reality. Though these all symbols writers extending so far ideas of life. So let’s have a look at the

"The Birthday Party" has been called 'Comedy of Menace'.

To Evaluate my assignment  Click here... Name: Vidhya Pandya Semester: MA – 3 Roll No: 32 Paper No:-9 The Modernist Literature Enrolment No: 2069108420190031 Email id: vidhupandya10497@gamil.com Year: 2018 -20 Submitted to: Department of English , Maharaja Krishnkumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. Assignment's topic: 'The Birthday Party' has been called comedy of Menace. Do you agree? ● Introduction:- The label a comedy of Menace, was first used in 1957 by David Campton in the sub-title of his play “The Lunatic View”, and was a year later applied to the plays of Pinter in a magazine article.     Yes, I am agree with this above title that “The Birthday Party” has been called comedy of Menace. This is certainly an appropriate title for The Birthday Party. A comedy of Menace is a play in which the laughter of the audience in some or all situations is accompanied, or immediately followed, by a feeling of some impending disaster. ● A Sense of Danger Accompany