ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#42 | December 16, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036 After problematizing the authority of the native speaker in second language acquisition research, applied linguists are now questioning the…
ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#42 | December 16, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036
SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY
(Established under Section 3 of the UGC Act 1956)
Jeppiaar Nagar, Rajiv Gandhi Road, Chennai – 600 119, Tamil Nadu, India
A one day National Conference
on
Trends in English for Science & Technology
with special focus on
Technical Writing (Download Brochure)
TEST ‘14
29th January 2014
Organised by
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY
Chennai – 600 119, Tamil Nadu, India
Phone: 044-24501644 Extn: 5499 & 5320
www.sathyabamauniversity.ac.in
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY
Sathyabama University was established under Section (3) of the UGC Act, 1956, in the year 1987. It is a pioneer institute imparting knowledge in the areas of engineering, science, technology and education. The progress and contribution of the university in the field of technical education for over two decades made the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India to grant University status Under Section (3) of the UGC Act, 1956. Sathyabama University is steered towards success under the leadership of visionary Honorable Chancellor Col. Dr. JEPPIAAR, Madam Chancellor Tmt. Remibai Jeppiaar, and the able support and guidance of the Directors Dr. Marie Johnson and Dr. Mariazeena Johnson. The university has undertaken various sponsored projects funded by National organizations such as ISRO, DST, IGCAR, DRDO., MoEF, CSIR, NRSC, DBT, MWR, BRNS, CVRDE etc. The University is successfully conducting non-formal education programmes through 18 village Resource Centers all over the state. (more…)
ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#42 | December 16, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036
The interconnected conceptual areas of teacher knowledge and teacher beliefs (included by some authors under the rubric of teacher cognition) have been debated in the field of language education intensively for the last two decades, during which time the terminology used in the discussions has been interpreted in a variety of different ways. However, there have been limited attempts to study the way in which teacher knowledge and beliefs develop in specific cases of language teaching methodology: one area of that has not been studied is that of knowledge/beliefs of communicativeness in language teaching. This paper argues that the conceptual area referred to by the above term is multi-dimensional and dynamic. (more…)