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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VIT University

Department of English

School of Social Sciences & Languages

Vellore Campus

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Recently, learner autonomy has gained great attention in educational research and pedagogical practices. For the purpose of promoting learner autonomy in a language classroom, first of all, we need to make teachers aware of the concept and its benefits. It is due to the fact that teachers are the ones who create and maintain learning communities. Accordingly, the focus of this study was to explore Iranian EFL teachers' intuition and understanding of learner autonomy and their perceptions of teachers' roles in autonomous learning. In order to figure out the situation, 160 English teachers answered an open-ended questionnaire. Qualitative data was analyzed through content analysis and other relevant statistical procedures. The findings demonstrated the current understanding of the teachers about the concept of learner autonomy in language learning and their perceptions of teachers' roles in autonomous learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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IUP Journal of Soft Skills

Teachers' Perception of Autonomous Learning: Take It with a Pinch of Salt.

Rock typing is a process through which reservoir layers are classified into distinct units with similar geological conditions. The Kozeny-Carman's equation is commonly used for rock typing based on the porosity-permeability relationship, but it only considers spherical grains in its calculations which does not give representative results on many occasions. Thus, an attempt was made in this study to develop a new mathematical equation to correct the porosity-permeability relationship in rocks with ellipsoidal grains. To validate this equation, several pore-scale models were analysed using the Discrete Element Method (DEM) where the porosity was calculated under different conditions. The permeability of the pore scale models containing ellipsoidal (spheroidal) grains with different aspect ratios were then determined using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM). This was followed by applying the new equation by incorporating the eccentricity of grains in the correction shape factor of the Kozeny- Carmen's equation. The results obtained indicated that any deviations in the sphericity of the grains (increase or decrease in the aspect ratio) increase the permeability of the model. In other words, the developed pore scale model with the aspect ratio of 1.0 (spherical grains) had the lowest permeability at the same porosity. This could be due to the bridging of pores with the ellipsoidal grains which causes a longer and narrower fluid path. Moreover, the models with the aspect ratio of 0.5 and 2.0 had a similar porosity-permeability correlation which could be linked to their similar packing structure. The new equation was further validated through the literature and numerical studies to ensure its accuracy under different geological conditions.

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Developing a porosity-permeability relationship for ellipsoidal grains: A correction shape factor for Kozeny-Carman's equation

The Usage of SNSs {\&amp;} LLSNSs during the Covid-19 pandemic: There is a light at the end of a Tunnel.

William Shakespeare’s plays are universal in human character, which have raised him to be the exemplar in film industry. Shakespeare’s works stand to the test of time due to their intrinsic quality of life-likeness as Arthur Koestler comments that life-likeness is regarded as the supreme criterion of art. Shakespeare’s works and films project the reality of human life. The universality of his works has motivated the film producers to adapt Shakespeare extensively in their films in different regions, nations and contexts. The adaptation of the literary text into filmic interface involves major creative restructuring between the original text and the filmic medium. The restructuring of the adaptation involves shift in the medium, genre, context and culture to suit the differences in area and medium. The director of a film needs to be highly creative to adapt a literary text to make a film. Vishal Bhardwaj is one such contemporary prolific film makers who have successfully adapted Shakespearean plays like Othello, Macbeth and Hamlet into Indian cinema. The research article tries to portray the creativity of a director to recreate a new film out of an existing text (filmic adaptation). The article analyses the concept of conceptual blending creativity process and bricolage in highlighting the creativity of Bhardwaj in adapting Hamlet and localizing it in Indian cinema as Haider (2014). © VGTU. All rights reserved.

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Creativity Studies

Recreating hamlet: Creativity of vishal bhardwaj in haider

A majority of Western instructional approaches promote active learning instructional strategies influencing learners to think critically and creatively, thereby inculcating higher-order thinking skills. Cognitivism or Cognitive theory, an area of study associated with thinking skills, tries to understand the process that happens in the minds of learners that includes language learning and its use. As opposed to the behaviourist notion that language is learnt automatically by repetition and re-enforcement, the cognitive approach looks at it as a conscious and controlled thinking process that involves understanding and reasoning. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence and IoT [Internet of things], the day is not far when human beings will transcend known channels of interface to respond to machines, and communicate through a voice-enabled interface. This article is a study on the need to re-orient second language pedagogy to accommodate this futuristic reality and design a framework to promote better language acquisition. © 2021, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

A Cognitive System Process Approach: ELT Pedagogy for a Hybrid Communication Model

Indira Goswami is one of the most celebrated writers of Indian English literature. Goswami is undoubtedly one among the very few writer activists who has raised her voice against the violence meted out against the widows through her works. Her own position as a widow might have helped her to portray the realistic image of a widow tearing off the stereotypical characters presented in the Indian literature. Her deep concern for the marginalised widows and their unheard voices within their own family circles is what made Goswami stand apart from her contemporaries. The voice of an upper class Brahmin who is destined to be a widow at an early age can be traced out from her women protagonists. Portrayal of atrocity against those women in a patriarchal society is significant in her two works The Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker and The Offspring. This paper discusses at length the violence against widows in the society then. Further, the paper attempts to bring out both the physical and psychological trauma faced by widows&nbsp; &nbsp;

VIOLENCE AGAINST WIDOWS AS A RECURRING MOTIF: A STUDY OF INDIRA GOSWAMI'S SELECT WORKS

The present paper describes and analyses multilingualism and language use in urban Vellore. In the situation of urban Vellore, together with multilingual immigrants, multilingualism is stimulated with the business motive, to earn livelihood and for social integration. Interviews are conducted with 31 respondents who are skilled in employing at least three distinct languages in their regular communication. The study highlights the presence of different languages in Vellore’s verbal repertoire. There is also a discussion of the participants’ perspective on multilingualism which is mostly positive. The phenomenon of multilingualism in Vellore sometimes also stems as a survival strategy of people in their new surroundings. © 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor &amp; Francis Group.