Vol. 5 Issue 14 – Research Paper: ‘The Impact of a Curricular Innovation on Prospective EFL Teachers’ Attitudes towards ICT Integration into Language Instruction’ by Hismanoglu, Murat

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#14 | April 22, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

Research Paper Abstract

This paper investigates whether the new EFL teacher training curriculum provides an efficient ICTtraining or not through both a quantitative and a partially qualitative research methodology. One hundred twenty-four prospective EFL teachers participated in this study and the results of a series of Independent Samples T-tests highlight that the prospective teachers having five ICT-related courses displayed better attitudes in comparison to those not completing this training period by reflecting that the success of technology integration into education varies from curriculum to curriculum, depending on the ways in which it is applied. (more…)

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Vol. 5 Issue 14 – Research Paper: ‘Language and Literature Interface: Recovery Aspects in Poetry’ by D. Murali Manohar

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#14 | April 22, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

This paper is written and submitted by Dr.D.Murali Manohar, Head and Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

Introduction:

English language has a particular syntactic structure. If we follow Noam Chomsky who has theorized a fixed pattern of sentences in his book Syntactic Structures (1957) such as NP+VP which means Noun Phrase in the subject position and Verb Phrase in the predicate position. Anything that is beyond is considered as deviance.

Objective:

The objective of this paper is to see how the creative writers especially the poets deviate from the Standard English. The creative writers have their freedom to experiment with the language. They are not people who are to be told how to write sentences using grammar rules etc. They have poetic license especially the poets.

Scope:

The scope of this paper is to explore in a few poets but this is not exhaustive. It can be extended to other poets of New Literatures. In fact the experiment is more aggressive in the new Literatures. (more…)

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The 10th Annual Sloan-C Blended Learning Conference and Workshop, taking place July 8-9th at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, will center around the theme “Trend to Blend: Lessons from the Field” which reflects a renewed interest in blended learning while highlighting the significance of research and proven effective practices of the past decade in guiding our future.

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