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| Chapter 1 Communication Through Classics: An Innovative Approach in Language Teaching |
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This chapter describes how in a globalized world, the need for learning a new language becomes inevitable. |
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If a speaker speaks in his native tongue, he will be able to address his language community only. |
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Whereas, if the same speaker speaks in fluent English, his speech gathers him more attention and audience. |
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From the period of development in language and various trades, the need for knowing other's language created the necessity for learning another language. |
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Various tasks based on the level of the learners were propounded to exhibit their innate nature in learning. |
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One such task-based strategy in teaching the communicative skills is through literature - storytelling, narrating lifetime incidents, cracking jokes, sharing the day-to-day news in the classroom. |
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Teaching Greek myths in an Indian classroom is an interesting task. |
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It makes the learner to enter a new world, creating a new scenario of pleasant learning. |
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The teacher undertakes various roles as analyst, counselor, and group process manager. |
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| Chapter 2 Teaching English Language and Critical Thinking Through Authentic Short Videos (Ted Talks). |
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This chapter describes how usage of technology in learning becomes common in the current Indian educational scenario. |
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In order to meet the employment expectations, the young students of higher education need to enhance both critical thinking and communication skills. |
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Hence it is essential to develop both productive and receptive skills of English that include not only pronunciation and vocabulary, but also grammar and spelling both in oral and written communications. |
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To manage better communication, learners need to express their thoughts in various ways. |
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Ted Talks, a robust social media platform is proven to be the authentic material for the language learners to develop thought-provoking ideas and express through useful language. |
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| Chapter 3 Teaching of Foreign Languages for Engineering Students in Indian Contexts |
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This chapter describes how in the globalized era, the need for learning a foreign language has increased the unquenchable thirst of students to attain success globally. |
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Though English enjoys all privileges the same as the regional languages of India, it is no longer considered a foreign language. |
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After the successful completion of engineering courses, a majority of students are placed in IT sectors, and a few, with a keen interest on research, go abroad for higher education. |
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Language is an important part of culture and civilization, and students, by learning foreign languages, get a wide cultural and linguistic exposure. |
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Language is a major aspect of globalization and is closely connected with waves of migrant students. |
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| Chapter 4 A Study on Incorporating Narrow Reading Into Engineering Program Curriculum to Teach New Words |
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This finds the possibility of incorporating narrow reading into the curriculum of engineering students. |
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The success of incorporating narrow reading will be determined by the learning outcome of the students. |
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The scores achieved by the students on standardized tests like GRE, TOEFL, and IELTS are considered a benchmark for attaining language skills. |
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So, before taking up full-fledged research, this study intends to investigate if achievement scores can be correlated to the Narrow Reading habit of the students. |
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A questionnaire was administered to the students to know the standard tests the students took, their reading habits and choices, titles of the books or stories they read and the authors of the works. |
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Analysis of the responses collected through the questionnaire provided the foundation to the proposal of this paper to incorporate Narrow Reading into the curriculum of Engineering Education in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in India. |
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| Chapter 5 The Demand of Employable Soft Skills for the IT Industry: An Empirical Study in the State of Andhra Pradesh |
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The present empirical research has been carried out in response to the e-mails received from reputed IT industry HR personnel with regard to the behaviour and soft skills issues of the newly recruited students from the working institution of the author. |
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The present research aimed to identify the employable soft skills through survey questionnaire which again gives the opportunity to know the gaps between the soft skills taught in various engineering institutions of Andhra Pradesh and skills required for the IT jobs. |
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Further, a structured questionnaire was administered to HR personnel of select reputed IT companies who take part in campus drives. |
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The data has been statistically analyzed based on which the viable suggestions are provided to the engineering institutions to train students in soft skills for better employability prospects in IT Industry. |
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| Chapter 6 An Experiential Study on the Learners' Perception of E-Learning and Traditional Learning |
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The teaching-learning process had been confined to the classrooms before technology found its place in the field of education. |
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The classrooms were either student;centred or teacher-centred. |
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The scenario changed slowly and classroom instruction became technology-supported. |
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Today's learners, the digital natives, rely more on technology rather than teachers. |
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The drastic change raised a question whether they need teachers or technology for higher levels of learning and the possible results. |
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In order to find out an answer to this question, a study was conducted among the young engineering graduates belonging to a private technical institution in Vellore district, Tamil Nadu. |
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Surprisingly, the results favoured the traditional mode of teaching in spite of the numerous advantages listed out by the respondents. |
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| Chapter 7 From Lexis to Discourse: A Five-Stage Pedagogy for ESL Learners |
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Any exercise of structuring written or spoken discourse starts from Lexis, the most basic unit of communication. |
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We may call it the initiator of discourse. |
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Despite considerable efforts made towards developing the word power of the ESL learners, they face difficulty in using the vocabulary appropriately in a variety of sociocultural contexts in which they are required to operate. |
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The present chapter attempts to demonstrate how this five-stage pedagogy will enhance learner's ability to make use of the available lexical items in authentic situations so as to produce meaningful discourse. |
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The proposed pedagogy is the result of our experiment with authentic sample of students and language exercises. |
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The five-stage pedagogy comprises the following stages: |
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| Chapter 8 Students' Behaviour in the Classroom Environment: A Review |
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In this modern era, the behaviour of students has a huge impact on classroom environment and often time causes destruction to learning environment, teaching environment and crippled the social, educational, and holistic growth of the students. |
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This chapter mainly deals with various reasons for behavioural problems in school classrooms and is also aimed at suggesting new strategies in dealing with learning challenges posed by problematic student behaviour and different ways to deal with it. |
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Students should be motivated with proper discipline. |
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It puts forth measures considering the academic environment of school, and emphasis on the contribution of strategies to improving student behaviour. |
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| Chapter 9 Classroom Experiments and Experience Using Skill Genie |
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The teaching learning process in every domain keeps changing abreast to academic and industrial practises. |
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Other than knowledge, the acquisition of skill sets is demanded nowadays. |
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The present generation may be a computer wizard, a scientific mastermind or a technocrat, but they are expected to possess a good skill set. |
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To be successful, subject expertise alone is not enough. |
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In this context, the Higher Education Department, Govt. |
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of Andhra Pradesh has published a Student's Hand Book Skill Genie (SHBSG -2016). |
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A very laudable attempt and this move certainly helps students to refine their communicative competency and soft skills which absolutely increases their employability quotient. |
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This chapter reviewed the appropriateness and usefulness of the book through a select lesson and the authors of this research paper wanted to share the class room experiments and anew experience which they tried in an academic setting with III ECE "A" (2017 -2021 batch), Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi. |
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In addition to that, this chapter appraises Skill Genie (SG) as well. |
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| Chapter 10 Intra-Personal Emotional Intelligence Among College Students in Vellore District of Tamil Nadu |
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The competency, of individuals to distinguish their own emotions and those of others is known as emotional intelligence. |
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It is the "ability of an individual to accomplish and control his or her emotions and own the capacity to control the emotions of others as well." There are four branch models of enthusiastic insight that portrays capacities of different zones of emotional intelligence. |
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First one being the perceiving emotions; it is the expression of emotions in a non-verbal reception; using emotions; use of emotions to facilitate thoughts; understanding emotions: where emotions convey information; managing emotions: emotions are managed and understood to convey information. |
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This study focuses on the intrapersonal emotional intelligence which is the basis for interpersonal emotional intelligence. |
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The aspects viz., understanding emotions, managing emotions, intrinsic motivation building, and zeal are studied. |
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The study attempts to identify the factors of emotions present in the college students so as to help them to build an effective intrapersonal emotional intelligence. |
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| Chapter 11 Assessment of Vocabulary Levels Among Regional Middle School Students |
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Vocabulary plays a vital role in language learning and teaching. |
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Knowledge of vocabulary is the root of second language learning. |
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An assessment of regional middle students' lexical knowledge is essential before enhancing second language learning and teaching. |
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This chapter is an empirical study based on written tests. |
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The researcher used the following sections for testing vocabulary levels: |
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2 odd one out - word group |
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5 identifying professions through pictures. |
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This chapter interprets the data and analyzes the five sections, showing averages and frequencies. |
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This study offers suggestions for empowering and enhancing vocabulary in second language learning and teaching. |
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| Chapter 12 An Exploration on Issues and Challenges in Teaching Writing Skills to Tertiary-Level Learners |
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Writing is considered a very important skill in language learning yet a very challenging task for students to master it. |
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It is also a required skill for students to score good grades in their academics. |
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Inappropriate use of words, incorrect, and illogical sentence structures and grammatical mistakes while writing, reflect poorly on the language proficiency of learners. |
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This also creates issues later in their professional life. |
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Addressing these challenges at the tertiary level has been an area of concern to English language teachers. |
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The prime aim of this study is to explore the challenges and problems encountered by teachers in teaching writing skills to learners in the ESL classroom. |
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This chapter also proposes a process-product based effective pedagogic practice which was experimented in the ESL classroom while teaching writing. |
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The approach employed facilitated learners to overcome issues by making learners use the language in context rather than merely based on grammar structure. |
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| Chapter 13 iGeneration Methodology |
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This chapter aims at analyzing the effective teaching methodology for the iGeneration students who learn English as a second language. |
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iGeneration students are the students who are born in between 1995 to 2012. |
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As the iGeneration students are not interested in reading books, there has to be another method which can be used to teach them. |
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This generation of students are using the technology effectively. |
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The teachers who teach English for the students have to adopt a new method. |
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To find out the best method for English language teaching, 150 students were taken for the research. |
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They were divided into three sections namely A, B, and C sections. |
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Each section was taught with different methods. |
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At last, a test was conducted for all the students and marks were awarded for the test. |
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Based on the marks scored by the students, it is found that audio-visual method was effective for learning English language. |
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| Chapter 14 NLP Technique: A Pre-Listening Activity in Enhancing Listening Skill - A Pilot Study |
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Listening skill is an important employability skill that helps learners comprehend any piece of information. |
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The study aims at developing the listening skill of students at the tertiary level. |
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As listening has been neglected in language learning and teaching and students are not much exposed to listening skill, the researcher has focused on developing the listening skill of students. |
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The researcher has attempted to carry out a pilot study with a group of twenty students in order to assess the efficacy of NLP technique in developing listening skill. |
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It was found that NLP technique is quite useful in improving listening skill. |
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At the end of the study, it has been found that NLP is an appropriate tool and it can be used for further study with regard to developing the listening skill of students. |
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| Chapter 15 A Derivative Approach Towards Activity-Centred Language Teaching: Activity-Centred Classrooms |
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A whole language approach is an educational philosophy, different activities and strategies create meaning to learning. |
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Theoretical view of teaching in a classroom has helped to partially target on formal and informal styles of learning. |
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E-learning has overtaken the traditional to be the best source. |
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Thus, in this chapter, is described the different aspects, which when incorporated, makes learning not only easy but focused. |
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It teaches the teachers and students to be engaged in the process of learning without stress and prepares the personality involved in the process of teaching and learning to be aware of certain remedies so that the platform may be conducive for education. |
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Active and passive learning, cognitive, psychological, and biological aspects taken into consideration show how they are involved to create serious understanding to make the teaching process valuable. |
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| Chapter 16 Social and Cultural Factors Influence on English Speaking Abilities |
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Social and cultural factors assume a huge job in learning climate. |
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The speaker foundation assumes an indispensable job in English speaking skills, and it could be a dialect capacity that is horrifying by social and cultural segments. |
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The researcher utilized the technique to hold the majority of the improvement occurred inside the class in regular settings and conjointly to gauge the speaking troubles experienced by technical course aspirants. |
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This examination focuses on the impact of sociocultural factors on the English-speaking abilities and it comprises observations, interviews, unstructured meetings, and surveys. |
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The combination of different culture foundation students took part and accepted the need for social air and cultural support, which can empower the dimension of English expressive knowledge because they feel unsure while communicating. |
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This examination is to discover useful inputs for learners, parents, and educationists to upgrade the procedures of instruction and figuring out ways to improve speaking abilities in English. |
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| Chapter 17 Theories of Social Media and Learning: A Study on the Use of Social Media by Undergraduate Students |
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The objective of the study is to find out how students use social media for learning. |
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Theories of social media and learning: social constructivism, heutagogy, activity theory, connectivism, cognitive development, peer learning, and peer tutoring, Cooperative learning is discussed and connected to learning. |
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Social media is used at the college and university level for formal learning. |
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The research methodology was survey research by a questionnaire, personal interviews, and focus group discussion. |
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Youth in general are interested in using the technologies and it is found that they adopt technologies faster than the respondents in the age group of 45 and above. |
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Learning takes place in their own habitats as opposed to formal classroom learning. |
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The study also proves that the social media learners find new web portals to extend their learning and find answers for their questions from quora.com, edx.org, scribd.com, libgen.io, etc. |
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| Chapter 18 A Study on the Application of Technology for Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis in Language Research |
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A number of statistical packages were developed by software developers and companies to assist English language teaching (ELT) researchers. |
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This chapter focuses on the role of technology in assisting ELT researchers in the form of online survey tools and data analysis software packages, and it provides an introduction to the application of widely used software packages. |
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Analysis of the research over the past five years, and the role of technology to frame its findings, shows the vital and unavoidable significance of technology for the promotion of English language teaching research. |
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The present analysis revealed the significant role of SPSS software for enhancing the quality of ELT research in a scientific manner. |
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The study analyses various statistical techniques used and the various software that offers these techniques according to need. |
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It also suggests the best software for ELT research and explains the features of these software packages. |
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| Chapter 19 Robotics for Education |
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This chapter focuses on the applications of robotics in the field of education. |
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It discusses the scope for growth and improvement in the models of the robots currently in use. |
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It deals with the current scenario regarding the implementation of a thought that can help in making the future of learning efficient, effective, and interesting. |
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It also allows insight on the role of teachers in integrating this concept in the classrooms. |
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It describes the future of merging AI in the regular classroom to make the process of teaching and learning easier and enjoyable. |
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| Chapter 20 Counter-Narratives: Voicing Against Dominant Black Narratives With Identity Issues in Toni Morrison's Selected Novels |
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The term 'narrative' has attained a contemporary connotation of identity tales and has stepped outside the bounds of literature to enter into realms of sociology, anthropology, law, and even medicine. |
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Narrative is not just the medium used by writers to tell their stories, but also a powerful tool of self-expression, with a strong reference to individual stories set in a significant cultural background. |
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This nature of narrative has been observed in one of the most significant African American writers of the modern era - Toni Morrison. |
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With the rise of in-betweenness and the need for a space to emerge as an individual identity, it is important for people to create narratives to counter prevalent dominant narratives. |
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| Chapter 21 Are Panoramic Education Lectures a Distraction? |
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Education in this 21st century has come a long way and it has seen several innovative methods in reaching its learners. |
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In recent years, the development of IT and web services made it possible to reach a remote audience. |
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Several platforms and academicians have started to adopt e-learning methodologies in a view of reaching massive learners across the globe. |
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As a current trend, all these e-learning platforms are using videos as their major medium of content delivery and these videos are generally flat. |
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Another advancement in recent years is the 360° panoramic videos that are gaining a lot of popularity in the field of entertainment. |
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This paper summarises the attitude of the learners and how the 360° video's environment influences them when a panoramic video lecture is used for content delivery that replaces the traditional 2D flat educational videos. |
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| Chapter 22 Social Injustice Tormented the Psyche of Parentless Children: A Study on Toni Morrison's Jazz |
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This study explores how social injustice affects the characters of the three parentless children in the novel Jazz, which tells the story of a triangular love. |
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This chapter highlights civil rights movements which impact on black people and future generations. |
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It is the story about the three parentless children who suffer because of the lack of parent's guidance. |
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Morrison tries to instill the importance of mothers by depicting the lives of the three orphaned protagonists and how they meet with a fatal end. |
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| Chapter 23 Imagery of Assert and Valor With Reference to Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace |
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Amitav Ghosh' contribution for the welfare of women in literature is notable. |
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He has given a multifaceted picture of women in all his works. |
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His women characters have occupied a unique position in the literary arena. |
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He was able to picture a typical ground reality of women in different location and situations. |
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He has given a wide experience to all his readers to explore different women characters from an ordinary woman to a woman who meet all challenges and succeed in life. |
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He has typically pictured women with challenges and struggles they face in their day today life. |
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This chapter aims to picture the strength and courage of women positive and progressive in the novel The Glass Place. |
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| Chapter 24 One Size Doesn't Fit for All: An Empirical Study of Language Learning Strategies of Rural Learners |
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Language is a means of communication. |
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Learning a mother tongue is an ecstasy, but learning a second language is an acrimonious bliss. |
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There is many research which focus on the enhancement of L2 learning. |
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One of the ways to enhance the L2 learning is to focus on the individual differences (IDs) of the learners. |
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Where one size does not fit for all. |
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Each learner enjoys and searches the apt one for their size. |
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This chapter focuses on one of the IDs i.e. language learning strategies (LLS). |
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It is the actions, plans, and steps possessed and developed by the learner to enhance the L2 learning. |
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This chapter is an attempt to investigate the awareness of rural learners about their LLS, and to identify the strategy preferences of the rural intermediate level learners and the tertiary level learners. |
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Thus, this chapter identifies the awareness and preferences of LLS of rural learners. |
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