Vol. 4 Issue 31 – Research Article: ‘Silence Also Speaks: Nonverbal Communication in the Classroom’ by Dr. Shubha R. Mishra

Communication is one of the most important concepts of the 21st century. In a teaching learning situation, communication and all its related assumptions have drastically changed over the period of last two centuries. In the traditional classroom, teaching was through lecture method and the use of the chalk and the board. With the explosion of technology, the whole scenario has changed. The traditional teacher, who was respected only next to God, and was regarded as the final word, has now changed roles to a facilitator, who communicates his thoughts, ideas and knowledge, through many different ways. Those teachers, who use uses nonverbal communication and its multiple facets like expressions and body language, to make the teaching more interactive and interesting, are more popular, and are regarded more humane and accessible. In this changed scenario, nonverbal communication has gained a new dimension and importance in classroom teaching. Therefore the teacher’s awareness to the multiple ways of non verbal communication, its effects and significance has become crucial in the whole process of teaching and learning.

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Vol. 4 Issue 31 – Article: ‘Teaching English As Foreign Language in South Africa’ by Aparupa Patowary

South Africa was primarily a Dutch colony and later taken up by the British. The country was plagued by racial and cultural conflicts but has conquered over its troubles to a large extent in the recent past. It is now a multi-cultural and a multi-lingual country with 11 official languages and only 8% of its' population conversant in English. Economically, it has been doing very well and is striving to do better in the global world. Since communication is very important to further their development in world economy, the people in South Africa are educating themselves in today's lingua franca, English.

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Vol. 4 Issue 30 – Research Paper: ‘Role of Mother Tongue in Teaching English as a Second Language to Tamil Students’ by Vairamuthu Suntharesan

Using the student’s mother tongue in the ESL classes has been felt to be very productive as it is found to develop language accuracy and fluency. The objective of this paper is to discuss how mother tongue can be effectively used in teaching certain linguistic areas in order to motivate students and promote their language proficiency faster. Translation in ESL classes which enables the process of comparing student’s first language with the second language would undoubtedly enable students to attain the ability of using the language in real life situations for communicative purposes.

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