Book Review: ‘Campus Placement: A Bumpy Ride’ by Pawan Dwivedi

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#36 | October 7, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

Book Details

Title: Campus Placement: A Bumpy Ride

Author: Dr. Pawan Dwivedi Head, Training and Placement Parul Group of Institutes

Number of Pages: 160

ISBN No: 978-93-5104-547-2

Price: Rs.199/-

Introduction:

There is a serious need of assistance for the academicians working for the students placement. With this new book ‘Campus Placement: A Bumpy Ride’, there appears a ray of hope from them.

It includes importance of Campus Placement activities. Description of a survey report is given which elaborates the expectation of the students and Parents at the time of admission in the professional program.  This survey includes twelve points. Students were taken from 21 engineering colleges of the state of Gujarat. They have done higher secondary from 80 different schools. These schools are located in 16 different districts of Gujarat.

Chapter-one (Day-Zero): Role and responsibilities of Institutions. Being a professional education how to promote Training and Placement cell to improve over all academic standard in the campus. Training and Placement can play a vital role in developing in reverse engineering in professional education. Because training and Placement helps to develop liaising between Institution and Industry to make teaching and learning process industry and society oriented. (more…)

Continue ReadingBook Review: ‘Campus Placement: A Bumpy Ride’ by Pawan Dwivedi

Conference: ‘Language in Focus’, Antalya, Turkey, March 2014

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#36 | October 7, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND ELT

ELT Department of Faculty of Education, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey is holding 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND ELT /

Language in Focus Exploring the challenges and opportunities in Linguistics and English Language Teaching

Antalya, Turkey, March 27-29, 2014

The conference is dedicated to academics and university lecturers, representatives of central and local educational authorities, non-governmental organizations and school teachers. The event is a great occasion for meeting experts in a varied areas of Linguistics and ELT.

CONFERENCE THEME

Applied Linguistics is a field of academic enquiry that deals with the theoretical and empirical investigation of real issues in which LANGUAGE IS IN FOCUS. These issues range from aspects of linguistics, first or second language acquisition, literacy, language disorders, foreign language learning/ teaching, bilingual education/CLIL, multilingualism over interactional issues of interpersonal and intercultural communication to language variation, linguistic discrimination, language policy etc. (more…)

Continue ReadingConference: ‘Language in Focus’, Antalya, Turkey, March 2014

Conference: JALT’s ’39th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning’, Japan, October 2013

ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#36 | October 7, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

We start to learn even before we are born and continue learning throughout our lives. It’s an important part of the life voyage of each human being. Every one of us has learning stories—our own stories as well as the ones we contribute to as friends, partners, parents, and teachers. What are your learning stories? What are your learning memories? Bring them to Kobe in 2013 and share them with your colleagues. JALT2013 promises to be a captivating port on your lifetime learning voyage.

Registrations

Onsite registration will be offered at the conference site from 25 October, 4:00-7:00 pm, and throughout the remaining days of the conference. VISA and MasterCard will be accepted. Please bring your membership card to register at member rates. See the conference fees page for registration option details. (more…)

Continue ReadingConference: JALT’s ’39th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning’, Japan, October 2013