Dear Contributors & Readers,
We proudly present a whiff of freshness through our section of poems. Also are included a gamut of articles in all the three major areas. A myriad of perspectives, concepts and research presented through the intellectual mindsets of our contributors makes a very interesting reading.
The poem section carries, A Shop, very reminiscent of our lives and homes. The following four poems are the angst of the writer on an issue close to their heart and they were influenced by.
Literature section saw a collection of papers, few of which analysed books and stories tempting the reader to surely have a go at the books they have written about.
The Language Teaching section saw a curiously interesting mix of articles, with the conscience of an English Teacher/Trainer reawakened towards their roles in the bigger game of language acquisition.
Communication Skills section reinstates the importance of this area in our professional spheres.
We are happy to bring to you the April 2013 issue of IJELLS. Happy reading!
–Editor
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Contributors:
- Dr. V. H. Asudani, is a Ph.D. in English with M.Sc. in Applied Psychology, P.G. Diploma in Guidance and Counselling, and gold medal in Sociology, English and History. He is a Psychologist of India and works effectively as the students’ counsellor in the Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering & Management .
- Anoop J. Antony, working as an Assistant Professor in Annai Velankanni Arts and Science College, Marthandam, T. N. He is a grooming scholar with a profound academic background pursued his M. Phil. degree in Annamalai University, and M. A. from Madras University, hails from Trivandrum Kerala. He presented papers in three International
- Conferences and two National Conferences.
- Dr. Gulfishaan Habeeb, is Associate Professor of English at the Directorate of Distance Education, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad. An alumnus of Osmania University, she has varied areas of interest in English language and literature. She is a critic and a creative writer with published works.
- Binu P.M is an ESL lecturer in the English Language Centre at Al- Musanna College of Technology, Oman. He has an MA and an M. Phil in English language and literature, a B.Ed and a Cambridge CELTA. He is at present researching for his P.hD in ELT. His main area of interest is classroom research. and teacher education.
- Ghansham S Baviskar, is working as an Asst. Prof. in English Department, RNC Arts, JDB Commerce & NSC Science College, Nashik. He likes writing poems on social issues.
- A Sandhya Reddy is an Associate Professor in English at Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Gandipet, Hyderabad. She has 20 years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and post graduate level. She teaches students of BE/BTech, MCA & MBA students.Her expertise is in communication skills and soft skills and she is a certified trainer. She trains the students in employability skills and grooms them for the industry.
- S. Thangam is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English in S. S. S. Jain College for Women in Chennai. She started her teaching career in the year 2000 in Madurai. She is qualified as per the UGC norms and has got six years of experience. She is now pursuing research on Clifford Odets in Madras University.
- Dr. B. V. Rama Prasad is Ph.D. in English from EFLU, Hyderabad. He also has M. Phil and PGCTE degree from EFLU, Hyderabad. He has presented papers in many international seminars. He is now associate professor in the department of English Kuvempu University.
- Namita Singh M.A.,M.Phil, persuing Ph.D, working as a lecturer of English for the past three years in S.S. Jain Subodh P.G. College, Jaipur. Her specialization is in Afghan -American Diasporic literature and her area of interest is diasporic literature.
- Dr. Jayshree Singh, is a Lecturer in the Dept. of English, Bhupal Nobles Post-Graduate College (MLSU), Udaipur (Raj.). She has presented papers in Women’s World Congress 2008, Madrid; AEEII, Cordoba, 2009; AEEII, Tenerife Norte 2011; SALA, San Francisco, 2008; ICSA, Warwick University, Coventry, 2010; ACLA, Vancouver, 2011; MELUS, Boca Raton, Florida, April, 2011 & NeMLA, New Jersey, 2011. She has many publications to her credit
- A. Phaniraja Kumar is a research scholar, Rayalaseema University, Kurnool, A.P. He has been 12 years of experience in teaching field so far for +2, Degree as well as P.G. He completed M.Phil, in Nagarjuna University, Guntur. He published and presented research articles in various International journals and National Conferences. His interest area is Indian Writings in English.
- Dr. Nidhi Sharma,is awarded a Gold Medal in her post graduation. She is currently working as a senior lecturer in the Dept. of English at Swami Keshavanand Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan. Her research interests are Indian Writing in English, New Literatures and Gender Studies.
- Dr. Niraja Saraswat is a Reader in the Dept. of English at Swami Keshvanand Institute of Technology, Management & Gramothan, Jaipur. Her areas of research interests are Victorian Drama and an Analysis of Women in Bernard Shaw’s plays
- Kalloji Susheel Kumar has completed MA-Linguistics from OU, M.Phil in Linguistics from EFL University and with a UGC-JRF-June-2011. He is working as an Assistant Professor(C) from August-2011 to till date in the Department of Linguistics, Osmania University.
- V.V.L. Usha Ramani, Associate Professor, Department of Science and Humanities, Raghu Engineering College, Dakamarri, Visakhapatnam District. She is researching in the area of African American Women Writers, focusing on Gloria Naylor’s fiction. Her other interests include Communication Skills, Russian Literature.
- C. Raghavendra Reddy has a teaching Experience of 12 years and is currently working as an Associate Professor of English and Head at Vaishnavi Institute of Technology
- Tirupati
- R. B. Sarala has a teaching Experience of 6 years and is currently working as an Assistant Professor of English in S. V. College, Tirupati.
- M. G. Prasuna is currently Head, Department of Languages & Humanities, BITS, Pilani Hyderabad Campus. Her areas of interests include Comparative Literature, translation studies, women’s writing, Theatre and Film Studies and Indian Writing in English.
- Dr. Ashma Shamail worked as an Assistant Professor of English at Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She attended several National and International Conferences/Seminars, and has published articles on African-American, African-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean and Pakistani women writers. Her research interests include African-American and Migrant Afro-Caribbean Women writers in exile.
- Dr Varalakshmi Chaudhry has been teaching ESL for about 16 years now. She has presented 26 papers in Conferences; and published 15 research articles and 4 books. Her specialisations are: SLA; Applied Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Personality Development; Entrepreneurship & Teacher Training. She is a Guest Faculty at JNU & IIT Delhi.
- Dr.T. Karunakaran has been designated as an Ontario certified language instructor and a senior lecturer in Jaffna University. He has wider knowledge in language teaching, linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA). He has twelve tears’ of ESL teaching experience
- Kandharaja K.M.C is an M.Phil research scholar at Centre for English Language Studies, University of Hyderabad, and Hyderabad and holds an MA from EFLU, Hyderabad. His research interest include SLA, ELT and EAP
- Neetu Baghel is presently working as an Assistant Professor in Chouksey Engineering College, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. She is Pursuing her Ph.D. She has 5 years of teaching experience in Engineering and 2years in P.G. She has many presentations and publications to her credit.
- Dr. Bhawna Nigam is an Assistant Professor in Govt. Engineering College, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. She has 13 years of teaching experience. She has many publications and paper presentations to her credit.
- S. Venkatesh , is working as an Assistant Professor Of English at Rajapalayam Rajus’ College, Tamil Nadu, South India. He is currently pursuing Ph..D. in English Language Teaching . He won The Best Poetry Award in Madurai , and Chennai ( Govt. of Tamil Nadu ) and an Excellent Teacher Certificate from Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Patna Region ( Govt. of India ).
- P. Hiltrud Dave Eve, has been an active practitioner in English Language Teaching for more than 11 years and has interacted with more than 4,000 adult learners of English in the Indian higher education. At present she is working in Sacred Heart College, Tirupattur.
- K. Karthikeyan is working as an Assistant Professor at Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering college, Perambalur. He has published many papers on ELT. He would like to create an awareness regarding a fear of English many students experience, especially schedule tribe’s students.
- Dr. Mohammad Shaukat Ansari is working as Associate Professor of English at M.L.S.M. College, (L.N. Mithila University), Darbhanga, Bihar. His areas of interest in teaching are English literature, Poetry, Grammar, ELT and ESP. Presented several papers and chaired technical sessions in three International Conferences. He has many publications to his credit.
- Dhumal Suraj Nandkumar is working in RISE Group of Institutions as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of English. He has done M.A. from Pune University and B.Ed. from EFL University, Hyderabad.
- Anusha Das is an Assistant Professor in English at Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara, Kerala. She is also a part time Ph.D scholar in ELT and Children’s Literature. She attended and presented papers in National and International Conferences.
- Prof. M. Deva Santhanam Pillai has been teaching English and allied subjects for the past 27 years. He has served as Professor in Charge of In House Training at K L University since 2008. At present, he is with the Academic Staff College, K L University. He has conducted several Faculty Development Programmes, and Language Workshops in addition to publications.
- M.Vijayalakshmi is working as an Assistant Professor in the department of English in Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Chinniyampalayam, Coimbatore.
- U. Pushpalatha holds a postgraduate degree and an M. Phil both from the Madras University. She is at present working as an Assistant Professor in English in Anand Institute of Higher Technology, Chennai. Her poems have been published in various anthologies. She has been presenting papers in National and International Conferences and Seminars.
- Hannah Dharmaseelan is working as Assistant Professor in English, Periyar Maniammai University, Thanjavur. He has an M.Sc degree from Madras University, M.A degree {English} from Madurai Kamaraj University, M.Ed from Annamalai University and M.Phil from Alagappa University. His research area is e- learning and language development.
- Dr Ravi Bhushan is working as an Assistant Professor of English in Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidayalaya, Khanpur Kalan (Sonipat), Haryana. His areas of interest are ELT, Communication Skills and Indian Literature.
- Dr. R. Srividya works in Dr.Ambedkar Govt Arts College as Asst Prof of English. She has presented several seminar papers on grammar and communication skills, over the past decade. Her research area was in conversational skills. Her current interest is in making language labs functionally useful for second language learners.
- Dr. D. Bellarman is an accomplished Teacher from India with 17 years demonstrated success in teaching English Language and Literature. The author has presented and published various papers on literature themes and on language teaching themes as well. His interests are English Language Teaching, Linguistics and Indian Writing in English.
- Dr V. R. Jeyasala is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English,Alagappa Govt. Arts College, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, India. She has been teaching English Language and Literature in technical institutions and arts colleges for the past 15 years. Her specialization is ELT(English Language Teaching)
- Dr. P. Vasudevan is a Retired Professor of English in Sree Sevugan Annamalai College, Devakottai, Sivaganga District, Tamilnadu. He has more than 30 years of teaching experience. Being an expertise in English Language Teaching , he has been a resource person, research guide and author of many articles.
- Dr. P. Nagaraj is the Associate Professor of the Department of English & Foreign Languages at Bharathiar University in Coimbatore. He has published books and journal articles widely in the area of English Language Teaching, Technology mediated Language Learning and e-learning. He has presented several papers. He has developed software on Grammar learning and Punctuations. He has conducted workshops on the communicative aspects of language use.
- Ashitha Varghese is full time Ph.D scholar in the Department of English & Foreign Languages at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. She is pursuing her research in the area of English Language Teaching. She has presented papers on the Innovative approaches in English Language Teaching, Reading Instruction, Grammar Teaching in various Conferences.
- Latha. R has about 16 years experience in teaching and training learners of different age groups. Her broad field of research is English Language Teaching. She has taught the Undergraduate students at Arts and Science College, Post graduate students at Business School and presently working at Madha Engineering College as an Assistant Professor of English.
- M.Santhi Priya is working as an Assistant Professor of English at CMR College Of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad. She is pursuing PGCTE from EFLU, Hyderabad. She presented one paper in a national Journal.