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Teaching English Language

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Linguistic Interpretation of Discourse/ Narrative

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http://www.info.sciverse./ The discourse analysis of a text from the literary critique point of view incorporates the meaning in the text, inter-textuality, embedded metaphorical sense, use of symbols to denote myths or an image in an exaggerated or in extraordinary manner. The discourse analyses also refers to the backdrop, the culture, context and comprehension of the societal interest viz-a-viz past and present society, social attributes, conditions and norms. In a way discourse analysis of the text recreates the image of the writing imagined by the writer as well as it constructs new thought for the reader, by the reader and of the reader to reimagine the situation, context and culture as per his cognition. But when we do the linguistic interpretation of a narrative indeed the focus lies on the words/vocabulary i.e. signifier and the signified. The words become the object of scrutiny in the contemporary context and comprehension first of all; secondly the words delineate t

Food for Taste or Thought - Delicious.com

Webskills 2012: Hello to everybody! : Hello to everybody, Please let me use this first opportunity to say hello and to state how excited I am to be part of this. I hope we are... Dear Jasmina We have learnt to step the ladder of web-interaction with the help of each other, point is the ladder of web exploration has unleashed the probable and improbable opportunities for us. Our dear instructor Ms. Courtney Cunningham has told us to search delicious.com. Do you think we are going to get from this site the food for thought or food for pedagogic exercises in ELT. Hope you might have been faster to search this engine, although one of our classmates Mahesh Dey has already been through it, but he has not given any clue about its utility and implications. Rest later in my next letter to you. With best wishes                   Dr. (Mrs.) Jayshree Singh https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/?ui=2&ik=862aeefdc3&view=att&th=13acf559caa6e247&attid=0.1

your reflections

Dear Jasmina  You have really ventured your passion and perseverence into the details of learning and exploring skill of educational technology along with webskills. I am thankful to provide with such such practical experiences by using PB worktools and Noodletools.  Regards Jayshree  October 14, 2012 12:26 AM

Language teacher - EFL/ESL Xtian's Corner

Dear Ina  I have finally step myself before the Saturday PST of Oregon Clock says that that week @ assignments is over, I have caught your blogger to stay connect with you directly. I am glad that you have in our classroom who has immense passion to throw new light on the areas of ABCD model of Bloom's Taxonomy and to suggest stimulative ideas for setting lesson-plans. The perspective of language teacher education in contemporary classroom is comparatively much difficult to prepare lessons plans because today the learner is far richer in the knowledge about social milieu through new media and media literacy. Similarly the instructor is to play the role of mediator rather as teacher or as the supervisor rather as the philosopher to instill problem solving outlook among the learners, as the present age is more scientific, technical, informative and communicative. Therefore the perception towards language teacher education is to be reformulated and redesigned in order to bring not

Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications

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The Relevance of Multiple Intelligence Theory to Narrative Performance: A Study of Iranian Undergraduates of English Abdullah Sarani, Atefeh Keshavarz, Enayatollah Zamanpour.English Language and Literature Studies. Vol.2, No.3 (September)2012. In this paper the author aims to investigate the relationship in the five components content, coherence, vocabulary, language use, and mechanics that are used as source to enhance narrative writing and he opine that students' multiple intelligence is to be considered superior than to mere use of linguistic logical intelligence.

Pragmatics in ELT Pedagogy

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http://calper.la.psu.edu/profdev.php?page=webinars     The Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (CALPER) at the Pennsylvania State University is one of fifteen Title VI Language Resource Centers (LRCs) in the United States which are funded by the U.S. Department of Education.   http://calper.la.psu.edu/images/home_main.gif CALPER's particular focus is to improve the environment of advanced-level foreign language teaching and learning, and assessment. http://quizboard.educatesoftware.com/boards.cgi?action=exportboard&boardid=4481  Dear Sankarakumar   I found interesting your plan and presentation of the technology of teaching. It is indeed very clean and clear blueprint who will do what and how it would be applied and what would be its outcome in class. Yet Sankarakumar I am slightly skeptical about Blooms taxonomy when in reality we decide the pragmatic pedagogy to train ELTs or ElT students. If you could just take one frame of

Emerging Frontiers in ELT - Web & Television

The present programme on television KAUN BANEGA KAROREPATI, led by the great millennium artist Amitabh Bacchan, conceptualizes the practice and performance of language through the use of cooperative learning strategies, peer tutoring, and increasing meaningful access through comprehensible input i.e. written texts with texts on recorded media – whether audio or video. It focuses on the preservation of culture, identity and mother tongue but at the same time it has developed universal auxiliary language that can be understood in the farthest locations of multi-cultural India. The KBC programme makes a judicious use of web-based learning through KBC web-game and through this internet-based learning it includes the use of social networking sites, email, chat-boxes, web-browser and podcasts. Similarly the artist Amitabh Bacchan is not only seem to be well-conversed with language proficiency as a teacher but he seems to be very much concerned with cross-culture requirements of multi-lingua

Heart Cherishes the Bliss in Musical Composition

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Kuch+dil+ne+kaha+&oq=Kuch+dil+ne+kaha+&gs_l=youtube-reduced.12..0l4.2541698.2552316.0.2554652.17.6.0.1 Kuchh Dil Ne Kaha - Dharmendra - Sharmila Tagore - Anupama - Lata - Evergreen Hindi Songs Movie Name: Anupama Music Director: Hemant Kumar Singer: Asha Bhosle Enjoy this superhit song from the 1966 Movie Anupama starring Dharmendra ... 10 months ago | 64,160 views by filmigaane Heart Cherishes Bliss in the Musical Composition To draw spontaneous action plan in the ELT classroom on the song pictured in the film, we can follow these steps: To discuss the backdrop and its dramatic depiction To understand the symbolic representation of the song in the story-plot To analyze the psychological vision of the presentation To search cinematic art and aesthetics in the picturing of the song To derive the characters reflections and mood To question and contrast the ambience versus reflections in the composition.

Exploring the use of Blogs as learning spaces in the Higher Education Sector

This blog explores methods for using educational purposes in university courses the Blogging, which has the potential to be a transformational technology for teaching and learning.

Webblogs in the Classroom

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This blog states the ten ways to use Weblog in the classroom: Personal blogging Group Blogging An aggregate blog E-Portfolio Websites of the Faculties News Blooging Collaborative - Wordpress Publications Multimedia Presentations f="http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/support/weblogs in the classroom"> http://eltsquared.co.uk/my-elt-survival-kit/

Ecstasy in ELT and the Webskills

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Dear All It is a matter of great pleasure to hear from you all. At the initial level of any course we are being taught as trainers to prepare an action plan along with objectives in order to predetermine what course of action and thought process as a trainer in ELT we need to fix our mind upon. According to me some of the significants motives must be: OBJECTIVES - To know about your inner dilemmas. - To know ones' attributes that confirms how much we are dynamic and hard-worker to feel and accept the change. - to excavate the inner strengths quickly. To display our thought process in demanding and in eye-catching attention even though it reflects our simplicity or ignorance of our expression. - To solve the intricacies of exploring web-possibilities for the interaction purpose - To prepare new models for ELTs is no doubt interesting and intuitive but these ideas do need lot of reorientation as regards computer and internet being used for learning webskills. ACTION-PLAN

Improve your teaching

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http://www.noodletools.com/public/121010123651478623994229 http://www.lds.org/servi....e-your-teaching?lang=eng How can I improve my ability to teach? Prepare Yourself Spiritually How can I prepare myself spiritually to teach? Love Those You Teach How can loving those I teach make a difference in their lives? Methods of Teaching What methods can I use to teach an effective lesson? Improve Your Teaching How can I improve my ability to teach? “The Lord can do remarkable miracles with a person of ordinary ability who is humble, faithful, and diligent in serving the Lord and seeks to improve himself. This is because God is the ultimate source of power.”

Discussion on the first step of choosing the project title

Dear Ashish It is a matter of great pleasure to hear from you and to know about your inner dilemmas. You have certainly an attributes that confirms that you are dynamic, hard-worker but at the same slow like basic html to excavate the inner strengths quickly. Your blog is absolutely demanding and catches attention even though it reflects your simplicity of your expression. I would suggest that why do not you take an Indian poet's collection of poems to make a pedagogic study as ELT. Generally poems give lot of information such as -backdrop, history, social conditions, psychology, the kind of people or characters, geographic locations, besides linguistic variations consisting in it. Then other exercises can be planned out in your project as regards the comparative study in the poems of the same poet. Because in English Literature Honours we do study at least two-three poems of a poet in the syllabus of the paper. Hope you will suggest me too on my topic of the project - "ENC

Verbal Culture of EFL with ELF in ELT

The world over where there was and there are commonwealth of nations, the English language has become the medium of deconstructing and demystifying the statuettes of eastern and western enigma and at the operational level there have been efforts to combine lingual mobility with social mobility, so that mobilization of non-native speakers of EFL may be achieved through assimilation, immersion and sheltered process. Deciphering the EFL through ELF has opened avenues to disseminate information, sound system of language, structural aspects via internet and computer. Therefore web-skills, webinars and webpages are unraveling the trajectory of cross-cultural peripheries both for native and non-native speakers of EFL and these are shaping the programs and methods of ELT to create English for Lingua Franca all across the globe. The aim is to bring in close circuit the speakers of EFL with their expanded circles by way of non-conventional and virtual techniques of web-network system.

Building Teaching Skills through Interactive Web

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One of the most difficult path to create webpage or website of one's own is as hard as to search one's direction in the untrodden paths for a layman in the techno-savvy world of information and technology. I have been through this task indeed with the help of my talented companion, my daughter 'Aishwarya Singh' (class XI student). The full marks to join with you all are deserved by her. I could reach to the page of bloggers and could settle down to frame my blogspot, but then I felt so exhaustive to design the blogpage that I had to resort to assistance, I have my facebook account and I have my two email accounts, I can upload and download but to design the blog and to be interactive in this way is absolutely a new venture in the world of cyber for me. With Family  I have been very happy  to accompany you all to learn and to experience the art of being creative on the web and net. It has been very innovative indeed to set compatibility with the system of teaching