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‘Empowering Youth with Soft Skills’ by B Shoba Rao

Post author:Tarun Patel
Post published:May 1, 2013
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Abstract

Soft skills include emotional/social/multiple intelligences and have come to be key skills for students at the tertiary level as many of them join jobs on completion of their degree. So it is mandatory to look at ways of making them master these skills with a wonderful learning experience. Soft skills is a compulsory subject in the college curriculum at Chennai , so this paper delve into this topic to highlight its importance in today’s world. It also suggests some activities that can make the teaching of soft skills more interesting and practical so that they take these skills further to their job and home fronts. This paper also discusses how a poem could be used to integrate soft skills at the tertiary level. (more…)

‘Primacy of English Language and Active ELT through Activities’ by A. Satya Phani Kumari

Post author:Tarun Patel
Post published:May 1, 2013
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Abstract: In this present speedy world, everyone prefers to give concise answers and terse replies rather than chatty and prolonged answers. The prattle and protract answers waste the valuable time of the busy and successful people. For this we need proficiency in English. As English is the lingua-franca in this global village, it is essential for everyone to learn English. Now people think about the role of English teachers or ESL teachers. The predominance of communiqué in the scholastic, social and professional dome stimulates the English teachers to enrich the communication skills of their students in a foreign language by observing cognitive and meta-cognitive skills of them. This paper elucidates importance of learning English and the novel ways of teaching English which replace the old pedagogical methods of teacher-centered education. It also proves that through activities students get expertise and enthusiasm in learning English. (more…)

‘Teaching Speaking Skills to enhance effective Communication Skills’ by Heera G Rajwani

Post author:Tarun Patel
Post published:May 1, 2013
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Communication is an essential ingredient of any system. It’s effective use can enhance our efficiency in any field of endeavor and improper use can lead to disastrous consequences. Effective communication, therefore, leads to more effective performance and provides information necessary for an enterprise to adjust to changing world. Communication is effective if each step is completed properly and it can break down if any step is incomplete or blocked by barriers to effective communication. To avoid miscommunication or not to communicate at all one needs to learn to speak first. Many people are not able to communicate due to lack of developed speaking skill. This paper focuses on the strategies of teaching speaking skills in context to role play and communicative tasks. If speaking skill is developed properly the person will feel comfortable to communicate. This paper describes an investigation that was conducted on the students of engineering college.

Key Words: Strategies, Communicative tasks, Role play (more…)