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 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.

School of Social Science and Languages

Chennai Campus

World University root node

Man in India

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

Globalisation is one of the predominant key factors that have played a vital role in transforming society and which eventually led to changes in the overtones of culture. The radical changes have a remarkable influence on the way women identify themselves and approach their lives. It has resulted in the emergence of women struggling and unfolding to find new opportunities to redefine themselves. The new found ideologies in turn have impacted this patriarchal society to a great extent that it has brought with it individual and social changes and different perspectives about the roles of women and men in family and society, both in concealed lives and communal structures. This change is vividly captured and portrayed in the creative works and it is analysed and interpreted by various theories which are newly formulated or reformulated and one such is the re-emergence of the new age feminist theory. Feminist theory forms the basis for the study of the experiences of women in society, in particular, women's eminence and position within their society and family. Feminist thoughts assumes that women's welfare and perspectives are convincing in and of themselves and are not lesser or secondary to those of men's, nor should they be distinct only in relation to or as a difference from men's experiences. The absence of these assumptions in customary and sociological learning is one of the criticisms which have emerged in feminist erudition. This work explores upon new feminism as a conceptual framework for analysing the changes in women's life and attitude through two films namely English Vinglish and 36 Vayadhinile. © Serials Publications.

Department of Software Systems

School of Computer Science and Engineering

Vellore Campus

Struggle for inclusiveness and identity in the movies: English vinglish and 36 vayadhinile

The objective of the paper is to portray New Historicism as a literary theory to explain political traditions and power structures in the scientific novel The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells, a leading American novelist who is today best known as "The Father of Science Fiction". The protagonist Montgomery stands as a positive symbol of exploration and realization, whereas, Dr. Moreau creates human-like beings from genetic manipulation of animals and treats them in a really harsh and cruel manner by imposing strict rules and regulations. The present paper explores H.G Wells' personal experiences in Victorian Age, and it also analyses how his meeting with Hitler and Joseph Stalin in Soviet Russia has a great influence on this work. The paper also gives vivid details of political traditions and power structures of the human-like beings created by Moreau. © Serials Publications.

Political traditions and power structures in H.G. Wells's: The Island of Dr. Moreau

According to Maharaj (2008, 23), "The Indian diaspora may be regarded as international phenomena-it has a presence in more than 100 countries globally." In recent times, the evolving role of migrants in the labor markets of the Gulf countries has attracted many people from developing countries like India. The people of the southern part of India, particularly Keralites and Tamils, have considered the Gulf a "promised land" for pursuing a good career and to attain economic stability. The "Gulf boom" is a period in the recent history of Kerala during which a large number of people have gone to the Gulf countries with great hopes and dreams. These people are ready to do all kinds of jobs and are willing to work hard. They put in a lot of efforts into their jobs and save most of their earnings. A visa to Gulf is like a treasure even at this point of time. Even the popular media cultivated this image of "gulf" as a "promised land." While the flashy nature of the Gulf countries has enchanted many people, for others, it has been like a mirage in a desert. Only after reaching there, they realize that those dreams still remain dreams and are not realized. This is well evident in the novel Goat Days written by Benyamin, which this paper focuses on. © 2017 IUP Alll Rights Reserved.

IUP Journal of English Studies

Deromanticizing the diasporic life: Benyamin's goat days

International Journal of English and Literature

Silence of Cow: Echoed in Kamala Markandaya’s Two Virgins

The role of readers is a matter widely discussed in the recent history of literature. This paper attempts to analyse different reviews on Kamala Das’s My story and tries to discuss how there are different layers of meaning created through different readers according to their reading background, socio-political background and many other factors. This paper therefore is a review of interpretations done on Das’s my story for the better understanding of the text as well as for to analyse the importance of multiple perspective in bringing out different stratums of meaning. © Research India Publications.

International Journal of Applied Engineering Research

Reading and re-reading: A review of interpretations on Kamala Das’s my story

The effect of learners' beliefs and classroom climate on language learning

Writing serves as an instrument in the process of healing. Scriptotherapy is the term coined by Suzzette A Henke in her book Shattered Subjects. It is a space where the writer explores his/her writing for the therapeutic purposes. The novel Push by Sapphire foregrounds the importance of writing where the character Precious undergoes various problems at her young age. Before the age of 16, she gets pregnant twice. Psychic trauma folds her and leads her life in total depression. Most of her problems happen inside the family, she becomes very lonely, depressed, rude and a stone-hearted girl. Once her teacher encourages her to write, she adapts self-narration and develops herself through the writing. Precious searches the opportunities to uplift her, and writing helps out. By writing, she finds a way to change her attitude and finds a different place in the classroom in which once she was considered rude. Writing serves as a way to heal. Scriptotherapy in her life helps her to get out the traumatic problems. This paper intends to find the importance of Scriptotherapy used in the novel Push by Sapphire and explores the benefits of writing. © Serials Publications.

Scriptotherapy as an antidote for traumatic problems with reference to sapphire's push

Objectives: The purpose of the paper is to enhance the LSRW skills and to develop moral behavior of the Engineering students with the help of mythology. Method: Using convenience sampling method, 25 under graduate Engineering students are selected as variables. By adapting Activity Based Language Learning (ABLL) method, activities are given to the students to improve their language skills and inculcate interest in mythology as well. Questionnaires are given and feedbacks are collected to identify the students' level of understanding mythology. Findings: Most of the Engineering students have enough technical expertise but lack communication skills which is necessary for showcasing their talent. Along with that the learners find it difficult to cope with the society due to the lack of moral knowledge. Through the activities that impart myth, the students develop their LSRW skills and along with that their moral behaviour is ameliorated too. Improvements: Students find ABLL as an interesting method where the acquisition of the language skills happens naturally, communication is no longer a barrier in their career and the ability to know about myth change the personal behaviour of the students. © Serials Publications.

Enhancing communication skills and moral values to engineering students through mythology: A study

The corrective feedback sometimes fails to receive the proper response from learners even though they are designed for realising the anticipated outcome. The experience of the researcher made her realize the inadequacy of her teaching even the same set of learners consecutively for two semesters for making the desired changes in the writing skill and their knowledge of language. The assumption was that the corrective mechanism might be one of the reasons for the lack of much improvement in their writing skill. The researcher decided to conduct the action research in the class to be informed of their preference and perspective in the corrective feedback mechanism. The results of the survey conducted made clear the preference of learners in the type of corrective feedback in relation to the occasion, medium, position of learners and strategy. The research has led to the conclusion that it is necessary to be aware of the inclination of learners towards different types of feedback mechanism to be beneficial for them. © Research India Publications.