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Language Lab - Survey: Dell Software

Language Lab - Survey: Dell Software Hello readers,  This blog is a part of of thinking activity. Our department is digital Department. Our sir always encourage us to do something new and give us intresting task. This is also interesting task in which we have to see or understand what is language lab software and also we have to see the NAMO e-Tab application. The full form of Namo tablet is New Avenues of Modern Education through Tablets. There are many teachers who may don't know how to use language lab software. Language lab is a software that help you to improve your basic skills and you can improve your language.  Following are some Advantages of language learning software. 1. Development of basic skills 2. The teacher can easily assess and monitor students work 3. convenient for group work 4. Students can listen to the native speakers 5. Ease of operating the software As we know that every coin has two sides same way language learning software. So f

Far From the madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

    "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife     Their sober wishes never learned to stray ;     Along the cool, sequestered vale of life     They kept the noiseless tenor of their way." The title 'Far from the madding crowd' is taken from Thomas Gary's 'Elegy on a country churchyard'. About the Author : Thomas Hardy was a famous English novelist and poet. He has the best skill to present a lot of characters in one novel. He gives different personalities to all the characters. He has the best command on the novel as well as on poetry. His famous works are                 " The Mayer of Casterbridge" (1886)                " Far From the Madding Crowd" (1874) Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) was Thomas Hardy's first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership. The novel is the first to be set in Hardy's fi

Thinking activity on One night @the call center

Hello readers, This blog is part of my thinking activity on One night @the call center by Chetan Bhagat . This is interesting novel by him. In the novel there are following chapters. 1. Shyam Mehra - narrator of the story 2. Priyanka - an intelligent and a practical girl who is too pre-occupied with her mother who was an extremely important person to her 3. Esha Singh  - wants to become professional model 4. Radhika Jha - who struggles to fulfill the duties of an Indian wife 5. Military uncle - who was thrown out of hid home after a clash 6. Varun Malhotra (Vroom) - much different then other characters The novel based on the life of people of middle class family in India and their problems. Basically the story moves around six main characters. All are working in a same group in a call center. This is a story about one night at call center which change the lives of all the characters. call center is a symbol of India's rapid globalizing economy. The plot contrived de

Journalism

Journalism : Journalism is a form of writing that tells people about things that really happened, but that they might not have known about already. People who write journalism are called "journalists." those people might work at Magazines, newspapers, websites, T. V etc. If you want to become journalist, then you have to read more and more. curiosity is best characteristic of good journalist. Ravish Kumar is an Indian best journalist. He is the Managing Editor of NDTV India. He also won Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2019. He is the author of the book "The Free Voice - On Democracy, Culture and The Nation". So he is one of the best journalist. There are two types of writing articles or journals : 1. Lead writing 2. Feature writing 1. Lead writing : Lead writing is most important sentence in your article. It appear in bragging of your article. In this sentence or line you have to give most important information about your article. This is a sentence w

Talks by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This Blog is a part of Sunday Reading task given by professor to know about the Novelist  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and we have to discuss three videos given below. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria and she was a Nigerian Novelist. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. Her famous works are, 1. Purple Hibiscus - won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. 2.Half of a Yellow Sun - won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and 3. A New York Times Notable Book; and Americanah - won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. 4. We Should All Be Feminists Her 2009 TED Talk, The Danger of A Single Story, is now one of the most-viewed TED Talks of all time.Her 2012 talk We Should All Be Feminists has a started a worldwide conversation about feminism, and was published as a book in 2014. Her most recent book, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Sugge

Arundhati Roy

This blog is a part of my thinking in which we have to answer three questions in small paragraph. click here to read blog. If you are asked about Arundhati Roy, what will be your answer? If you are asked about two novels by her, what will be your answer? If you are asked about the her perspective towards life, what will be your answer? Arundhati Roy : She is an Indian writer. Sometimes she write fiction and sometimes non fiction. She write about the world in which she live. She is good observer. Toady, Majoritarianism is rise but she think that she is not part of this because she stand alone with her book. For her, her perspective and her idea is most important thing. She think not as activists but as writer. She believes in living life by breaking rules. When you write something at that time you have to negotiate with people because people's interpretation is also important. But she like to work alone with the minimum amount of negotiation. Her first book "The

Education, Technology and ELT

This blog is a part of Thinking activity given by our sir (Dr. Dilip Barad) , here is the blog link of him click here. In the this blog task, we have to watch the video which is given in sir's blog and have to think and write. We all are using technology in one or another way. As know that technology is center part of everyday lives. We all are using technology in one or another way. Students love to use technology. They are interested because they are using. Technology is important in classroom because its open different ways of communication in our modern world. Today, we have massive amounts of information  are available at one’s fingertips through the Internet, and opportunities for formal learning are available online worldwide through the Khan Academy, MOOC, podcasts, traditional online degree programs, and more.  Following are some videos in which you can see that how technology help us in a different way and many other important things. Sugata Mitra : I w

Workshop on Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources

"The internet has changed the very meaning of ‘research’." - Pew Internet and American Life Project Today we had a workshop on how to find authentic sources from the Internet, how to do qualitative analysis, SEER and plagiarism. As we know that the Internet has so many sources or materials for all the faculties. But nobody knows how to find authentic materials from the Internet. We all work with technology and we enjoy working with technology. Nobody can do as much work as technology Does. The Internet has many sources, but we have to find the right source for us. Every source has its importance. If we talk about Wikipedia, Everyone thinks Wikipedia is a good source But you can't say that this is authentic. As we know that the founder of Wikipedia is Jimmy Wales. Jimmy wales struggled a lot. He believed that people could learn more through self education. He decided to create a website and he called this site as Wikipedia. But for that he worked hard because if y

Introductory Thinking Activity on Mass Media and Communication

Hello Readers, This blog is a part of my thinking activity on Mass media and communication. What is communication? "Communication is simply the act of transferring information from one place, person or group to another." Communication process involves one sender and a recipient. Media critic and theorist James Carey defined communication as "a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired and transformed" in his 1992 book "Communication as Culture". There are two types of communication and difference between Verbal and non verbal communication. As we believe that communication is a process of interacting with others. No matter if you are speaking something or not. You can convey your massage through some sign as well. So communication is not depending on words but on massage which you want to convey with your friends or with your teacher or with people. The communication in which we used words or language it is ca

Thinking Activity - A Grain Of Wheat

Hello readers, This blog is part of my thinking activity in which we have to write How is the native represented by Colonizers and character study of Friday in Robinson Crusoe. To understand this, we have to understand power and knowledge theory which is given by Michael Faucult. In this theory Michael Faucult said that how power create knowledge. So, the colonization of Africa by European powers had negative impact on the continent. The European always believed that, African people or countries are uncivilized countries or Africans did not traditionally have formal educations systems. In Robinson Crusoe , we can see the character of Friday .  Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe . It is about the survival of Crusoe in an unknown Island and he met Friday. In the novel we can see the politics of naming and how crouse gave him his language and culture as well. Crusoe always believed that Friday is uncivilized and he had no idea how to deal with other people. So, Crusoe id

ELT Assignment

Name : Ruchita Kankrecha Roll No : 29 Paper No : 12 Paper Name : English language Teaching Class : MA Sem 3 Topic : Second Language Acquisition Enrolment No : 2069108420190024 College : SMT. S. B. Gardi Department of English Email Id : ruchikankrecha06@gmail.com Submitted to : Department of English Introduction : As we believe that English language is not our language or the metamorphosis if English language from a colonial power to the global market player. Nowadays, we all are more interested in learning the English language rather than any other Language because we think that the English language is a link language and gives you more opportunity than any other language. English has subsumed several languages but it also occupies a paradoxical position in the contemporary world language scene. The story of the language especially the English language is the best story that has to be written. We all are using the English lang