[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 10 | June 20, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036] The English Language Teachers’ Association of India (ELTAI) is holding its 11th International and 47th Annual conference at the Vasavi College,…
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 10 | June 20, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]
Gary Anderson says, “I didn’t have to travel far to attend the i-Learning Forum across town here in Paris recently. The trade show billed itself as ‘Technologies at the Service of Learning’ and the attendees were mainly Training and Human Resources managers from businesses.
But the afternoon I attended was devoted to ‘Pedagogical Innovations in Language Learning’, a mini-conference which consisted of case studies from companies involved in blended learning, plus information on the products and platforms they used. Our own blended course,Touchstone/Viewpoint, was on display.
[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 9 | June 6, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]
English language literature in Pakistan is not a new thing compared to other nations of South Asia. It is during the last decade that Pakistani English novelists have gained popularity like never before. They have attracted the readers of the entire world. Joanna Lobo, a news reporter of ‘Times of India’ writes in an article:
As a country, Pakistan has undergone a series of seismic changes through its history. Its literature has also seen many changes. I would like to focus here on the two main sets of changes. The first is the changing trend in choice of literary form, i.e. the rising preference for prose over poetry: the second relates to changes in literary content, as reflected in the growing predominance of political themes in Pakistan’s English language fiction. -(Lobo, “The Case of Exploding…”, “TOI”) (more…)