[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.

Article:

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…)

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

The Pearson Longman team has published an interview with Stacy Hagen on ‘The Grammar-Listening Connection’.

Listening proficiency is essential for second language success, but in the classroom, it has taken a back seat to the teaching of reading, writing, and grammar. In this interview, Stacy Hagen will discuss why listening and grammar are a natural fit, why listening instruction needs to focus more on helping students decode speech, and how by doing this in the grammar classroom, we can provide a much richer linguistic environment for our students.

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