UGC Sponsored National Conference on ‘Emerging Disciplines of Applied Linguistics’, Bangalore, October 13-14, 2014

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 22 | September 15, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]

The Department of English, APS College of Commerce, N R Colony, Bangalore -19, is organizing a UGC sponsored national conference on ‘Emerging Disciplines of Applied Linguistics’ onOctober 13-14, 2014.

About the Conference:

Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field. Major branches of applied linguistics include bilingualism and multilingualism, computer-mediated communication (CMC), conversation analysis, contrastive linguistics, sign linguistics, language assessment, literacies, discourse analysis, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, lexicography, language planning and policy, interlinguistics, stylistics, pragmatics,forensic linguistics and translation.  (more…)

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‘British vs. American English’ by Reena Mittal

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 21 | September 7, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]

This article is submitted by Reena Mittal. 

This question always give a space to the students of English why words like colour, favourite, meter, centre are spelled differently. Actually there are four major differences in English spellings –

  • Or or our
  • er or re
  • s or z (ise, ize)
  • Word ending with L or ed.

English was started from Britain but after it started spreading in other countries, there comes need of a book which can collect all the words and suggest its meaning whenever needed. (more…)

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