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

The unique characteristics of the listening skill and the vital role they play in language learning and communication do not receive the attention they deserve and the situation is worsened in EFL contexts due to lack of communication in everyday context. Given this, the present study was an attempt to empirically investigate if partial dictation versus dictogloss had any significant effect on listening comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 60 male EFL learners were selected via double sampling and, after taking homogeneity test and listening pre-test, they were randomly assigned to two experimental groups (partial dictation versus dictogloss) and a control group. The first experimental group was exposed to dictogloss, while the second experimental group was exposed to partial diction. The control group underwent the mainstream usual classroom activities. After the treatment which took one hour each session for seven sessions, a listening post-test was given to all groups. The thorough analysis of data using paired sample t-test indicated that partial dictation group slightly outperformed the dictogloss group in the listening post-test and both experimental groups significantly outperformed the control group in the listening test. The result can have implications for learners, teachers and material developers in all second and, especially, foreign language contexts where listening comprehension does not receive the attention it deserves and this, in turns, deprives EFL learners of viable sources of input. It is recommended that dictation in either partial format or dictogloss become an instructional activity in English classes because of its usefulness in improving listening comprehension and, more importantly, because of its practicality which is an important concern in many language learning contexts. Key words: Dictogloss; English as a Foreign Language, Listening Comprehension; Partial Dictation

World University root node

School of Social Sciences & Languages

Vellore Campus

Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching

Partial Dictation vs. Dictogloss Effect on Listening Comprehension of Iranian EFL Learners

English language is considered as most eminent and a global language. Use of standard statistical tools and software in ELT research has given birth to quality researches with more accuracy and perfection in data collection, classification and assessments. These tools have paved way for futuristic qualitative and quantitative researches which will help the learners to acquire language skills in a systematic manner. The future of English language will be more demanding for the second language learners and teachers as ICT tools will play a significant role in skill development. This research reveals the impact of application of ICT (Information and communication and technology) tools to improve listening skills among the tertiary level, educationally backward students at Engineering Colleges in Salem district. A comparison with the traditional way of improving listening skills was also conducted to evaluate the effectiveness. The empirical study conducted helped to understand students and teachers familiarity and awareness towards the use of ICT tools in developing listening skills. The finding of this study revealed the positive impact of the application of ICT tools among students from rural and regional background of studies. © Institute of Advanced Scientific Research, Inc.. All rights reserved.

Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems

Use of Software and Statistical Tools to Analyse the Impact on the Application of ICT Versus Traditional Teaching Method to Enhance Listening Skills among Engineering Graduate Students

The traditional English language classrooms are in the process of rejuvenation after the introduction of ICT. The integration of ICT in English classrooms brought a tremendous change in language learning output. English classrooms are not meant to convey knowledge but a forum to express the acquired knowledge, describe matters with an aesthetic fervour and learn the art of communication. The present paper is an exploration on the motivating effect of ICT in improving the speaking skills of graduates, the scope and necessity of integrating ICT with Task Based Language Teaching and introducing various Apps for improving speaking skills. The survey analysis of the present study reveals that ICT is a powerful motivating tool in the acquisition of English speaking skills. © Institute of Advanced Scientific Research, Inc.. All rights reserved.

An Empirical Study on ICT Integrated Task Based Language Teaching to Promote English Language Speaking Skills

Abundant availability of fly ash due to the combustion of coal in thermal power plants presents a major threat to rising environmental pollution. To preserve the environment, fly ash was explored as the starting material for cordierite synthesis. Cordierite ceramics are widely used in the production of microelectronic components, catalyst substrate material for internal combustion engine. Hence, this research was pursued to fabricate the cordierite in a cost effective manner using fly ash containing the major constituent’s silica (SiO2) and alumina (Al2O3). Cordierite synthesis is carried out using raw materials fly ash, magnesia and dopants such as ZrO2, CeO2 and TiO2 at different composition (5–20 wt%). The properties and the microstructure of prepared samples were evaluated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis (TG/DTA), and scanning electron microscopy. Their mechanical and thermal properties such as the hardness, the fracture toughness, the flexural strength and the thermal expansion coefficient (CTE) were studied and compared with their morphology. It was found that the hardness, the fracture toughness, and the flexural strength were improved on the addition of the dopant in the cordierite matrix. The cordierite-ZrO2 ceramics (CZr20) exhibited a Vickers hardness value of 7.04 GPa, the fracture toughness of 3.47 MPa m½, and flexural strength of 196.72 MPa. The results confirm the cordierite synthesized with fly ash along with dopants is found suitable for use as catalytic substrate materials with improved mechanical properties. © 2018, Springer Nature B.V.

Department of Software and Systems Engineering

School of Information Technology and Engineering

Mechanical

School of Mechanical Engineering

Chennai Campus

Department of Automotive Engineering

Silicon

Fly Ash Constituent-Silica and Alumina Role in the Synthesis and Characterization of Cordierite Based Ceramics

Ernest Miller Hemingway, one of the best known and most influential of modern American writers. Hemingway will be remembered for his fictional technique, his dialogue consisting of short, concrete statements, his passionate search for the exact world which will express an exact and limited truth, his experiments with prose rhythms which have transformed the staccato rattle of his early writing into the liquid, cadenced ripple of some of his work. The present work intends to make a study of Hemingway’s Obsession with Death and Violence in his works.

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering Special Issue

Hemingway‟s Obsession with Death and Violence

Institute for Industry and International Programme

International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering

Differences in the Board of Education and its Impact in the Writings of Engineering Graduates

Humans can be adversely affected by exposure to air pollutants in ambient air. Hence, health-based standards and objectives for a number of pollutants in the air are set by each country. Detection and measurement of contents of the atmosphere are becoming increasingly important. Careful planning of measurements is essential. One of the major factors that influence the representativeness of data collected is the location of monitoring stations. The planning and setting up of a monitoring station are complex and incurs a huge expenditure. An IoT-based real time air pollution monitoring system is proposed to monitor the pollution levels of various pollutants in Coimbatore city. The geographical area is classified as industrial, residential and traffic zones. This article proposes an IoT system that could be deployed at any location and store the measured value in a cloud database, perform pollution analysis, and display the pollution level at any given location.

Department of Software Systems

School of Computer Science and Engineering

International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing

IoT-Based Real Time Air Pollution Monitoring System

The main concern of the paper is to study the significance of women in family life. It explores the importance of women in the short story Parsakti and Others in a Plastic Box which is published in the collection, In a Forest a Deer written by C.S.Lakshmi. The story is discussed from a feminist perspective. Most of Ambai’s works reveal the lives of traditional women their feelings, love, courage, will- power, search for identity, selfrespect, equality and so on. This paper aims to explore the life of a traditional woman who has lost her husband, and is always caring for her daughter along with while carrying her own life. She’s interested in cooking and helping her neighbours, politics, playing veena and singing songs with a lot of easel. She is a frim establisher spirituality of her self-identity and hence wants to write her own biography. This paper defends the ideology of Amabi who affirms that women need equal consideration more from the family than from the society. The paper is significant in a way that it helps the readers to understand empirically the social constructivist and cultural glorification of womanhood in Parasakti and Others in a Plastic Box. The paper further stresses on the difference in understanding the very meaning of the word ‘Freedom’ between the two generations. It delineates how the younger generation calling out for their own freedom unconsciously hinder the freedom of the older generation people without understanding their values, sentiments and attachments. This article views these aspects through the medium of feminism and voices the inner-selves of fictional women out loud

Department of Bio-Medical Sciences

School of Bio Sciences and Technology

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering Regular Issue

Kumudha; a Traditional Mother in Parasakti and Others in a Plastic Box by Ambai

This paper aims at the emphasizing the importance of developing listening skills in the engineering students at tertiary level through using application of ICT Information and communication technology tools .The limitation in the existing technological exposure at school levels have been analyzed so as to suggest necessary ICT tools at tertiary level. When the language learners are asked to speak in English language on a particular topic, they try to speak, but they may not listen well. The reason is students have faced problem due to lack of practice in listening, lack of ideas and lack of exposure. They even to write a composition they need to real thinking capacity and generate ideas with themselves. So they either escape or postpone the English language due lack of scarcity of ideas. Owing to this the second language learner lose their confidence level they hesitate speak, read, write due to lack of listening. The main reason is reluctance and neglected the practice of listening skill at school level as well as college also. It has become unavoidable to the language learners of rural vernacular background to build up communication competence. So, the researcher felt that using of ICT tools for developing listening skills would be better idea to motivate the engineering students of heterogeneous group to enhance their listening skills. The present research focuses on developing communication skill specifically in listening skill with ICT tools at tertiary rural educationally backward block engineering college students in Salem district. The researcher conducted experimental study among the rural engineering college students in two different colleges from educationally backward block in Salem district. The researcher analyses the rural tertiary educationally backward block engineering students to understand the familiarity towards use of ICT tools. © 2019, Institute of Advanced Scientific Research, Inc.. All rights reserved.

Application of ICT Tools: A Source To Enhance Listening Skill

The Role of technology in research process is highly significant and inseparable as in day to day life of a person. Technology is the faithful assistant of a researcher from the first scratches to the last words of a research thesis. It made the research process easier, precise, objective, accurate and meaningful. The crucial and visible role of technology in a research process lies in the collection of existing literature, data collection, data analysis, data representation, thesis writing and arrangement. The present paper throws light into the unavoidable presence of technology in the process of literary survey through introducing databases, data collection tools like Google Forms and Qualtrics, Data Analysis software like SPSS and Atlas.t and software to assist referencing like Mendeley and EndNote in the background of educational researches. © 2019, Institute of Advanced Scientific Research, Inc.. All rights reserved.