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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Learning of the English language has always been a high road for ESL learners, especially for many from Tamil Nadu. English is taught in forms of poems, prose, text etc. Though many of the students who reach the university to undergo their graduate programmes come from an English medium background, many find it challenging to understand and respond in English. Blame it for their innate fear they have towards the language or any other reason. Technology is something that these students embrace with so much ease. It is pretty evident the way they use their smartphones and masters the skills of using it in no time. Surviving a day without a smartphone is simply impossible for this generation. Hence, taking the aspect of their ease and loyalty to the smartphone, this paper attempts to critically analyse how the device will be of potent help in developing the reading skills in English. © 2020 Innovare Academics Sciences Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.

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A critical review on developing reading skills using smartphones by ESL learners

Every language functions as a replica of its culture and value system. As far as Indians are concerned, English is a foreign language. Expression of emotions in an acquired language, for an Indian writer, seems to be a difficult task. Since every language is rooted in its native culture, Indian writers writing in English face the challenges of conquering a foreign language in order to excel in their field. During the process, they succeed in imitating the English only in grammar, structure and style but fail to transmit the real spirit and soul in the foreign language. Therefore an attempt is made in this paper to analyse the negotiating elements identified in some of the Indian literary texts. © Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering &amp; Sciences Publication.