Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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The paper problematizes the existing pedagogical methods of teaching language in the conventional classroom by deconstructing the Eurocentric language teaching methods. It also proposes postmodern pedagogy and metacurriculum for the autonomous learners by challenging the limitations of the conventional curriculum. The paper also deconstructs the existing ethnocentric model of language learning by proposing an ethno-relative model of language learning. © 2018 IUP. All Rights Reserved.

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School of Social Science and Languages

Chennai Campus

IUP Journal of English Studies

Learner autonomy in the postmodern classroom: A poststructural study

A new language is learned by many to gain access to other people, cultures and their ways of seeing things. Although the academic world is gearing up with profound changes in teaching and learning of languages, to meet the challenges of the diversified, shifting circumstances, only modern approaches to foreign language education are being widely followed by many institutions while its learners belong to the postmodern era. This brings in a discrepancy between the needs, and interests of the learners and the views held by the stakeholders of education. This paper tries to analyze the existing method of teaching/learning a foreign language through conventional/modern methods and aims to discuss and answer if the modern pedagogy of teaching a foreign language can fulfill the aspirations of postmodern learners in the 21st century? It is found and discussed through the study that the modern pedagogical approach to foreign language teaching/learning process has to be deconstructed to meet the aspirations, needs and wants of its postmodern learners and the society they thrive in. The study thus puts forward a few alternatives, innovative postmodern pedagogical methods like the Digital Native Methodology, Meta-Curriculum, Task Based Learning and Project Based Learning as plausible methods to be included in the postmodern classrooms of foreign languages. © Serials Publications.

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Man in India

Constructing a postmodern pedagogy to teach foreign languages to postmodern learners of 21st century

In many ways, globalization is heralded as a true successor of postmodernism. However, it has also been regarded as an egalitarian counterpart to the same. In this paper, we analyse globalization in the Indian context and how it has affected the Indian economy. This paper problematizes the effects of globalization on Indian Economy in the post modern era and also proposes to critique globalization in the light of the cultural logic of late capitalism by analyzing the different stages of economic growth since independence. © 2017 Serials Publications Pvt. Ltd.

International Journal of Economic Research

Effects of globalization on Indian economy: A postmodern analysis

This paper aims at analyzing the postmodern fictional techniques like metafictional historiography, disjointed narration, mixing the high and the low and self-reflexivity by situating postmodern narratology within the postcolonial Indian Context in Shashi Tharoor's The Riot. The novel begins from the New York Journal's fictional account of Hindu-Muslim riot at Zalilgarh, Uttar Pradesh in 1989, and transcends space and time through mixing politics and personal lives through multiple narrative techniques. The death of a 24 year old Priscilla Hart, a volunteer of a non governmental organization from the United States is the central action of the story. The reasons for death of the innocent foreigner in India remain a mystery throughout the novel. The novel analyzes the different versions of truths behind the killing of Priscilla Hart through plural, non-linear, postmodern narratology. © Serials Publications.

Postmodern fictional techniques in postcolonial Indian context: A cultural critique of Shashi Tharoor's the Riot

Postcolonial Indian writers use different postmodern fictional techniques to distort time and space in order to represent postcolonial Indian reality in fiction. Tabish Khair uses innovative postmodern narrative like intertextuality, self reflexivity, unreliable narration, metafictional historiograpy in The Thing About Thugs to deconstruct the colonial image of the thugs. The identity of the thugs as a colonial construct misrepresented the thugs as ruthless killers. The British used the stereotyped image of the thugs as the binary other to establish themselves as civilized. The British projected the cult of thugee as embodying antisocial practice in India in order to justify their repressive colonial experience. The author blurs the distinction between the time past and time present by incorporating various postmodern fiction techniques to recreate a postcolonial gothic situation. This paper tries to problematize on the stereotypical colonial identity of the thugs by analyzing the colonial narrative in the postcolonial context. © Serials Publications.