Vol. 4 Issue 9 – Book Review: OUP’s ‘Personality Development and Soft Skills’ by Dr. Barun K Mitra

ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#9 | February 27, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036

PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT AND SOFT SKILLSPersonality Development and Soft Skills is designed to serve as a textbook that addresses the requirements of students of any discipline who are on the threshold of starting their careers or young managers who are already working in the corporate world. The book aims to provide crucial insights into various facets of developing one’s personality, as well as to improve written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills.

Special attention has been paid to the specific needs of a job aspirant, such as writing of effective CVs, participation in group discussions, tackling job interviews, and to hone one’s public speaking and speed-reading skills. (more…)

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Vol. 4 Issue 9 – Research Paper: ‘Why Indian Pupil Face Problem in Learning English as Second Language’ by Prof. Kailash Atkare & Dr. Nirmal S. Padmavat

Indian Pupil has less chance to listen proper pronunciation, as well as he/she faces trouble in learning English as A second Language because of varieties in pronunciation, differences in the structure of sentences, no firm rule of grammar. Present paper is the description of this all causes which make trouble in learning English as a second language by Indian Pupil.

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Vol. 4 Issue 9 – Research Article: ‘Bringing the language-learners in to the Zone through scaffolding- A Critical Approach of Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development’ by S. Christopher Gnana Seelan

This paper reports on the pedagogic reasons for using blogs as a learning aid and how blogging was integrated into a curriculum at the National University of Singapore to support the learning of grammar editing skills of music students.

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