Research Paper: ‘Exploring Mob-Mentality of Pakistan and India with special Reference to Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke’ by Devang Rangani

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 5 | February 2, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

 

Abstract:

Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke showcases some clear examples of mob-mentality of Indians and Pakistanis. He pens how this mob-mentality creates social and psychological problems in nations such as India and Pakistan. What makes people succumb to mob mentality–especially when it turns violent? Social psychology does offer relevant explanations for group or mob mentality and violence.

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A country is a huge group of people with a strong bond of identity. A nation’s identity depends upon shared culture, religion, history, language and ethnicity. In line with this, people’s mind, thoughts and mentality create the nation they live in.  A nation becomes what the people think, as the people themselves are the makers of their nation. Whatever is the condition of country, people’s psychology always plays a pivotal role in it.  Thus, the way people think, a nation moves and becomes. Mahatma Gandhi has said that “A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks, he becomes” (The Story of My Experiment with Truth). (more…)

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‘History of English Language Teaching’ by Dimitrios Thanasoulas

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 6 | February 9, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Dimitrios Thanasoulas says, “The English language teaching tradition has been subject to tremendous change, especially throughout the twentieth century. Perhaps more than any other discipline, this tradition has been practiced, in various adaptations, in language classrooms all around the world for centuries. While the teaching of Maths or Physics, that is, the methodology of teaching Maths or Physics, has, to a greater or lesser extent, remained the same, this is hardly the case with English or language teaching in general. As will become evident in this short paper, there are some milestones in the development of this tradition, which we will briefly touch upon, in an attempt to reveal the importance of research in the selection and implementation of the optimal methods and techniques for language teaching and learning.

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