Vol. 4 Issue 18 – Research Paper: ‘In Search of Swaraj in ELT Class-rooms: Translation, Indian Literatures and English’ by Tushar Vyas

Away from ELT theories propounded by the western theorists, the paper aims at studying the scenario of English language teaching in Gujarat and India. While the paper emphasizes the need for English language, it addresses issues related to learner, learning, content and culture and searches for alternatives of culturally loaded English literature taught in Indian class-rooms by the name of English language learning.

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Vol. 4 Issue 18 – BBC TeachingEnglish Article: Using poems to develop productive skills

The TE editor says, "You and your students might already enjoy reading and listening to poetry in your own language and perhaps in English too. Poems are, after all, authentic texts....

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Vol. 4 Issue 18 – Video: Language and the Mind Revisited – The Biolinguistic Turn

UC Berkeley presents the The Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lecture series, featuring linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky. Chomsky examines biolinguistics - the study of relations between physiology and speech.

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