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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

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  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

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 :