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Language Lab Review & Survey: DELL Software Language Learning Lab: English language lab software is a very effective tool in teaching the English language to students. This software enhances the skills of a student. The teaching in Language lab software is based on four skills i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing. Modern language labs are known by many names, digital language lab, multimedia language lab, language media centre and multimedia learning centre to name but a few. (Task: Go through the language lab software in the lab) These are general points uses by the language lab:- ∆  Text, images, audio and video can easily be integrated; teachers can alter materials to fit their requirements. ∆  Learners can record their own voice and play back the recordings, interact with each other and the teacher, and store results. ∆  Teachers can negotiate and control the learners’ computers via the teacher’s console, track of learners’ work, etc. ∆...

One Night @ the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat ★ Short Intro about Chetan Bhagat: • Born: 22 April 1974 (age 45 years), New Delhi • Movies: 3 Idiots, 2 States, Half Girlfriend, Kai Po Che!, Kick, Hello, Nanban • Education: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (1995–1997) Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author and columnist, known for his Indian-English novels about young middle-class Indians. Bhagat was included in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010. ★ Novels • Five Point Someone (2004) • One Night @ the Call Center (2005) • The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008) • 2 States (2009) • Revolution 2020 (2011) • Half Girlfriend (2014) • One Indian Girl (2016) • The Girl in Room 105 (2018) ★ Non-fiction • What Young India Wants (2012) • Making India Awesome (2015) • India Positive (2019) ★ One Night @ the Call Center (2005) -)  One Night @ the Call Center revolves around a group of six call centre employees working at the C...

Know the Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born on 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist, writer of short stories, and nonfiction. She has written the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), and the book-length essay We Should All Be Feminists (2014). These talks by Chimamanda Adichie ∆. The Danger of Single Story ∆. We Should All be Feminist ∆. Importance of Truth in Post-truth Era ∆. The Danger of Single Story In this video talks about our lives, our cultures are composed of many overlapping stories novel is Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.  The single-story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplet...

Arundhati Roy's Novels: 'The God of Small Things' and 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' Arundhati Roy, full name Suzanna Arundhati Roy, (born November 24, 1961, Shillong, Meghalaya, India), Indian author, actress, and political activist 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. Famous works of Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things - 1997 The End of Imagination - 1998 The Cost of Living - 1999 The Algebra of Infinite Justice - 2001 War Talk - 2003 Kashmir - the Case for Freedom - 2011 Capitalism - A Ghost Story - 2014 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - 2017 My seditious Heart - 2019 The God of Small Things Published: 1997 Written: 1992-1996, Delhi Setting: Kerala Booker prize in 1997 The God of Small Things set in Kerala, India, during the late 1960s when Communism rattled the age-old caste system, the story begins with the funeral of...

Thinking activity on Education and Technology Video-1: Changing paradigms by Ken Robinson This video starts with this line How do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the 21st century? Economic, culture identity, globalization, economic circumstances and industrial revolution they all are discussed in this video. The current system was designed and conceived for a different age. The arts are victims of this mentality. Aesthetic and Anaesthetic. Aesthetic experience- when senses are operating at their peak and Anaesthetic- shut your senses off deaden yourself to what it's happening. Gene pool education: we have to think differently about human capacity academic or non-academic education, abstract, professional, theoretical and myth. And in last great learning happens in groups is the collaboration is the stuff of growth. Video- 2 & 3: Sugata Mitra on SOLE and Future Learning What is the future of learning? Schools, as we know them are obsol...

Workshop on: Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources It is a workshop about how web resources rely on the original references and authoritative writings and articles. On  19th November 2019, Prof Dilip Barad sir organised one workshop on how to find Quality and Authenticity of web Resources at the Department of English. Through this workshop, we get information about the quality and Authenticity of Web Resources. In the present time, students reliance on the internet 🌐 and uses web sources, but how they are authentic and valid. Nowadays the use of the library is reduced. In present time more internet is being used instead of the library.  The use of the internet is increasing by the students and teachers for reading educational materials and research. How much credibility can be read online for assignments and research papers in this digital age? According to the Turnitin report, which websites are most preferred for reading and research according...

Thinking Activity: In the Context of A Grain of Wheat. How is the Native represented by colonizers? Do a character study of Friday in Robinson Crusoe. Throughout the history of mankind, there has always been an individual or a group of individuals who have deemed himself to be superior. This master-slave relationship has occurred skin colour. Friday is slave and Crusoe is his master. This relationship has also occurred in A Grain of Wheat. Britain is ruled upon Kenyan people. English people and the English language are strongly used, therefore, natives civilization does not understand the English language. Negros was a black people of Africa and people was a master (superior). Englishman has sold African people as a thing. During the 1930s, the first colonial laws were authorized formally establishing the institution of slavery. In the context of A Grain of Wheat, both the colonizer and the colonized feel morally justified in their pursuits, colonialism is ultimately an immora...

Mass Media:-        Mass media refers to a diverse arrangement of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place include a variety of outlets.        Each mass medium has its own content types, creative artists, technicians, and business models. For example, the Internet includes blogs, podcasts, web sites, and various other technologies built atop the general distribution network. The sixth and seventh media, Internet and mobile phones, are often referred to collectively as digital media; and the fourth and fifth, radio and TV, as broadcast media. Some argue that video games have developed into a distinct mass form of media. Importance of communication in everyday life & which platform you prefer the most for mass communication:        The communication brings people together, closer to each other. Communication is a signi...

Rang Mohan Yuva Mahotsav- 2019                           This year, we celebrated the 29th interagency college competition Yuva Mahotsav. Maharaja Krushnakumarsinghji Bhavnagar University has celebrated Rang Mohan youth festival of four days. This entire festival of four days hosted by the Department of Physical Education. Interagency college competition through we are developed our inner ability and many talents are enhanced by this festival. This festival was a youth or yuvak festival so this type of word suggest to the young generation and connect to the youth generation show their skills, abilities and expanded this way.                   This festival beginning on 25th Sep with Kalayatra from Shamaldas Arts College to Law College, Sardarnagar. This time the name of the youth festival is Rang Mohan which is based on Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary.     ...

The Nature of Language Teaching Name : Avni J Dave Semester : 03 Roll no : 03 Paper no : 12 ELT-1 Topic : The Nature of Teaching Language Email ID : avni.dave1998@gmail.com Submitted to : S. B. Gardi Department of the English, MKBU.  The Nature of Language Teaching  The nature of language            Language is a vast subject and it is beyond the scope of this book to do anything more than to introduce very briefly some of the most important points. The nature of language teaching            In recent years there has been a shift to seeing language teaching as being most effective when it is subordinated to learning. In other words, the teacher’s job is to help learners to learn effectively, or to facilitate learning. For example, and as discussed above, a teacher can make a choice between ‘telling’ learners what the teacher knows, or setting up ways of helping learners see patterns for themselves....

Various Terms on Postcolonial Study Name : Avni J Dave Semester : 03 Roll no : 03 Paper no : 11 Postcolonial Study Email ID : avni.dave1998@gmail.com Submitted to : S.B. Gardi Department of the English, MKBU. Various Terms on Postcolonial Study The age of present is ever in the state of flux where the text is always found in the process of decentring the center (Derrida). something changes into something with more justified and logical counterpart by the previous form of from which it came into being. Each epoch of a specification 8 time is modified with the help of 18 years is it most from one step to another with most dominating happy moment prominent resisting voice is what he will face too its next one. This is repeating phenomenon of the post-colonial that is crazy suites previous page namely  colonialism in age of policy in sectors of acquiring political control over and other country of keeping it was settlers and exploiting in economically. The literature of th...

Psychoanalytic Study on Poe’s Short stories Name : Avni J Dave Semester : 03 Roll no : 03 Paper no : 10 American Literature Topic : Psychoanalytic Study on Poe’s Short stories Email ID : avni.dave1998@gmail.com Submitted to : Smt S. B. Gardi Department of the English, MKBU Psychoanalytic Study on Poe’s Short stories  Here is a psychoanalytic interpretation of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Freudian concepts have been applied to the characters’ dialogue and deeds, language and body language to examine their personality. Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe is considered a father figure for the genre of short story as he was one the earliest writers of short fiction. Despite being a poet, editor and literary critic, his prime contributions has been to the formation of short story in America. Generations after generations of writers in the world have been inspired and influenced by his theory of short story and by his stories as well. His most recurring themes deal with...

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Short Notes on Modernist Poetry Terms Name : Avni J Dave Semester : 03 Roll no : 03 Paper no : The Modernist Literature Topic : Short Notes on Modernist poetry Terms Email ID : avni.dave1998@gmail.com Submitted to : S. B. Gardi Department of the English, MKBU. Modernist Poetry Modernist poetry refers to poetry written, mainly in Europe and North America, between 1890 and 1950 in the tradition of modernist literature, but the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in question, and the biases of the critic setting the dates. The critic/poet C. H. Sisson observed in his essay Poetry and Sincerity that "Modernity has been going on for a long time. Not within living memory has there ever been a day when young writers were not coming up, in a threat of iconolasm." Background It is usually said to have begun with the French Symbolist movement and it artificially ends with the Second World War, the be...