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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A massive open online course (MOOC) is online trend of study which is designed to reach limitless partakers and free of charge by way of web. It’s a forward looking step in the field of education in the context of teaching and learning. MOOCs are offering educat ional platform to millions of students all over the world. There is flexibility and space for study in MOOCs. It provides opportunities to students and scholars by providing low cost courses. MOOCs are made by sequence of videos, classes offered to students. Colleges and universities are espousing some diff erent stands towards pursuing with MOOCs and it helps in achieving numerous goals. This paper aims to study role of MOOCs among students of college and uni versity and in which way they use it, whether to gain knowledge or just to fulfil the criteria of course. As a part of the study, a survey will be taken from technical and non-technical students to assess the impact of MOOC. Further, it will also try to determine the importance of MOOC in the respect ive disciplines. © IJSTR 2020.

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International Journal of Scientific and Technology Research

Mooc as a knowledge software or certificate course: A study on openness, scalability and reachability of moocs among students

This paper embarks on with the opinion on identity adversity in the American society for people of other root. America has diverse culture and it includes various race, religion, ethnic etc. Like all other Jewish-American writers Roth's novels also convey theme of identity crisis because of his Jewish root. Taking catch from Roth's theme of identity and multiculturalism, The Human Stain, which recollects his drills of pluralism, ethnic mosaic, multiracialism, fusion, existence and self. The paper illustrates the American society in which there exist numerous distinct ethnic and cultural groups and searching for identity. © 2019 by Advance Scientific Research.

Journal of Critical Reviews

Identity adversity into the multicultural manoeuvre in Philip Roth's the human stain

The present paper deals about the theme of anguish in Bharathi Mukherjee's novel "Wife", introduces a women's activist viewpoint, making a picture of the abused woman, Dimple who battles with her personality however does not know it. She is liable to the wishes and impulses of others and has been associated to be uninformed of her own longing for an autonomous personality. She trusts she needs to be a spouse, however her aching is mistaken for her longing for opportunity. She is additionally unconscious that such a part won't concede her those yearnings. Indeed, even the creator likewise endured like Dimple. She additionally got hitched for her dad's decision shockingly she prefers that relationship however in the novel she anticipated the courageous woman character in the distinctive way. © Serials Publications.

Man in India

The theme of anguish in the novel of Bharathi Mukherjee'S wife

The paper focuses on the effect of trauma based on the movie Hope Floats directed by Forest Whitaker and released in 1998. The central character Birdee Pruitt (nee Calvert) played by Sandra Bullock has been taken for study for the paper. The paper focuses on the three different kinds of traumas that she faces, the effects caused by each, the consequences faced and the resulting rejuvenation. The 'trauma theory' has been applied to the movie as the theoretical framework of the paper in order to analyze the central character. The paper examines if trauma helps overcome a previous traumatic experience and the cause and effect thereby involved during the process. © Serials Publications.

Trauma the antidote of trauma: Forest whitaker's hope floats

Prof Widdowson’s insightful coinage „communicative incompetence’ refers to the adequacy of schematic representations required by readers to make sense of texts of varied focus. His argument is that even the proficient users of a language may fail to adequately deduce the pragmatic meaning of texts even if they are written in ‘simple’ language. This position has significant pedagogical implications especially in the context of ESP. ESP contexts give importance to communicative context and purpose of communication, and construct texts that generally follow the conventions of discourse communities. Often the readers are forced to learn the conventions of communication to be part of the communities. These communicative conventions when practiced consistently by communities to fulfil certain purposes generally become authentic materials for pedagogues. The questions are whether these texts qualify to be pedagogic models of instruction; if so how best can we make use of them? This paper in the light of current discussion, critiques the views proposed by various experts in the field, both for and against ‘authentic materials’, and aims to suggest waysthat can help ESP teachers design effective materials. © Research India Publications.

International Journal of Applied Engineering Research

A critique on authentic materials for effective ESP materials design

Cooperative learning is a group activity which is dependent on the exchange of information among peer learners and hence every individual in the group is motivated to learn better. The purpose of the study is to describe the process involved in the implementation of cooperative learning strategies in the development of writing proficiency of the undergraduate non-engineering students. The study has been conducted in VIT University with B.Tech first year experimental group of 30 students from heterogeneous background, who studied English for Engineers (ENG101) with Two Credit System. The study has been examined through observing student’s writing, questionnaires, interviews and the methods in which they developed their writing skills in cooperative learning environment. Students at this stage display weaknesses in the sentence structure, thinking, communicating ideas coherently with correct grammatical usage and resorting to the usage of colloquialism in their native language. The cooperative method integrates activities and promotes masterly learning, the building of thinking skills and strengthening of student’s social skill. The study which has been conducted in VIT University proved that cooperative learning helps students to improve their writing skills. This approach provides students the opportunity to work in small groups and helps them to improve their achievements. It employs quasi-experimental methods where the experimental group is taught writing skills through cooperative learning which is more students-centered and the teacher acts as a facilitator. In this method students are divided into groups of mixed ability, sex and background. Student exchange ideas and opinions and learn cooperatively from each other. The present paper explores the concept of cooperative learning and undertakes a case study of undergraduate non-engineering students and the way it can be implemented to enhance their writing skills. Thus as they exchanged ideas they learnt new content, vocabulary, sentence structure and they understood the language they were learning and experimented freely with new concepts of learning. © Research India Publications.

Implementing cooperative language learning strategies in enhancing writing proficiency of the undergraduate engineering students

International Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research

Interpretation of Jewish tradition in Cynthia Ozick's novel levitation

LAST decade witnessed the burgeoning interest among lexicographers and linguists in using computer-based authentic corpora and concordances in codifying the social behaviour of language. The effect of corpora on linguistic descriptions is such that it is at least practically impossible to disregard “evidence” (Sinclair, 1990, 2004) anymore in favour of “intuition” (Chomsky). That is, the role of evidence in both language description and teaching is now elevated to the level where the generalizations the learners make are “corpus-driven” rather than “corpus-based” (Biber and Conrad, 1990). In order for the corpus driven methodologies to be successful in enabling the learners draw valid generalizations the corpus they consult needs to unbiased, large enough and representative. COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English) is one such large (450 million words) representative corpus of current English of multiple varieties. COCA being a general corpus of contemporary American English provides the users a range of possibilities: a provision for comparable corpora such as BNC, COHA, TIME, a provision for a separate academic corpus of 110 million words within the 450 million word database, a provision for a spoken corpus etc. The present paper attempts to closely examine the academic component of COCA for academic vocabulary (Cox head, 2000) in the light of the “phraseology” theories proposed by Sinclair (1990). Academic corpora will be studied for patterns of word behaviour across disciplines: education, science, law…; and finally based on the analysis pedagogic implications will be suggested. Language Corpora and Learning Opportunities: An Analysis of the Academic Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA-A) LAST two decades have witnessed the burgeoning interest among lexicographers and linguists in using computer-based ‘real language data’ in understanding and codifying the language in use. The effect of corpora on linguistic descriptions is such that any attempt to disregard “evidence” (Sinclair, 1991)in favour of intuitive judgements leads to “hopelessly unreliable” (Sampson, 2001) generalizations about language use. Regarding any evidence as sacrosanct too however reduces the role of real language as doubly hopelessly unreliable. The composition of real data to deduce ‘valid’ generalizations about language in use thus forms the major concern of the paper. The present paper closely examines the pedagogic potential of the academic component of COCA in learning‘academic vocabulary’(Coxhead, 2000)(Hyland & Tse, 2007). Academic corpora is studied for patterns of word behaviour; and finally based on the analysis pedagogic implication sare suggested. © Research India Publications.

Language corpora and learning opportunities: An analysis of the academic corpus of contemporary american english (ACOCA)

In this paper, an endeavor is made to study women's tale with a view to understand their status and condition; and appreciate their trials and tribulations. Amrita Pritam in her short stories presents the status, and the condition of women who undergo exploitation and injustice as silent sufferers. The images of women present in the stories bring to the front the social, cultural, economic and psychological predicament of women in the Indian society. The entire writing of Amrita Pritam deals with woman's role and position in Indian society and this paper emphasizes the images of conventional women who underwent sufferings, prangs, during partition.

Unrequited agony of women in the select short stories of Amrita Pritam

The aim of this article is to discuss on teaching Business Communication in classroom to Business Administration degree programme students. Indeed, teaching Business Communication in classroom was different experience when compared with Technical English for B.Tech students. The syllabus for Business Communication (English) was also peculiar whereas Business Communication taught in other institutions. Usually in Business Communication we will have components of letter writing (Business letters), writing memos, agendas, circulars, advertisements, Business report writing and Business vocabulary, but in our university we had even Linguistic elements in syllabus such as Phonetics, Word stress, and Sentence stress. In addition to, other portions are Linguistic communication? Barriers to communication, Dyadic communication, Idioms and Phrases, Proverbs, Listening skills, Movie talk and Reading skills. The only thing what any one can find on students with this type of curriculum is that they cultivated more interest to read theory part (Linguistic communication, Barriers to communication, Dyadic communication) than technical matters (Phonetics, Word stress, Sentence stress). Yet they enjoyed Phonemic symbols while spelling their sounds. Perhaps the result point of view allowed them to be inspired with theory content rather than linguistics. Hence, might be learners earned enough experience in having command over English language. Concerned with learning materials it was difficult to search for Linguistic communication. The students felt happy with the academic syllabus due to teaching methodology than the given syllabus. The adopted teaching methodology was communicative language teaching with usual lecturing method. Lecture was lectured with the help of the technical tool power point presentation. The downloaded materials with pictures (power point lessons with pictures) attracted young minds. It is wonder that Business administration students reading Linguistic aspects and sitting for final written exam. Therefore, this paper exposes teaching-learning process of the teacher and student in teaching Business Communication to them.