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VIT University

School of Social Science and Languages

Presentation skill is an important employability skill that makes learners convey their ideas with confidence. It is a much required skill at workplaces, and employers look for it in employees during the interview process because presenting ideas with clarity and effectiveness is very much needed at workplaces. Developing presentation skill in classroom is important because it not only develops the communication skill of students but elevates their level of confidence. As presentation has become an indispensable part of tests pertinent to speaking, this study focuses on developing the presentation skill of students. It is believed that Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques would help in achieving the task of making students present their ideas in English with confidence. A pilot study was carried out with a group of twenty students in order to assess the effectiveness of NLP techniques in developing the presentation skill of students. The study found a considerable difference in the presentation level of the students before and after implementing NLP techniques. Hence, the study affirms that NLP techniques are quite useful in improving the presentation skill of students. © 2020 IUP. All Rights Reserved.

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Language

Chennai Campus

IUP Journal of English Studies

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) techniques: A therapeutic approach to enhancing the presentation skill of engineering students

The present study is trying to understand the factors behind academic outcomes of students when they are affected with blindness or related problems. Intelligence, aspects of identity and self-esteem of 500 students having blindness or related problems have been analysed in relation to their academic performance. The variables intelligence, aspects of identity and self-esteem are showing a weak relationship with academic performance. The regression coefficient of intelligence is also not significantly predicting the academic performance. Intelligence, aspects of identity and self-esteem could influence and enhance the academic performance of children with visual impairment to an extent but there are factors which are detrimental for the academic performance apart from this too. © 2020, Hampstead Psychological Associates. All rights reserved.

Psychology

International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation

The factors of academic achievement

Language Teacher Cognition

Teacher Cognition and Identity

Infertility is an emotionally challenging experience. Among infertile women, anger can be a consequence of prolonged infertility. Anger can be a cause of increased stress women experience during infertility. This study investigates the role of age, duration of marriage and years of treatment on anger experience and expression among infertile women in treatment. The investigator approached infertility clinics and hospitals to meet the sample and gathered data from a hundred and three (103) infertile women using a demographic questionnaire and Spielberger’s State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory. The researcher analysed the data using Independent sample t-test, correlation and regression. The results show that Trait Anger is influenced by ‘age’ of infertile women and those who are less than 30 years of age had more Trait anger than older women. Anger Temperament is influenced by age, duration of marriage and years of treatment. Infertile women who are less than 30 years of age have more Anger Temperament than older women. Duration of marriage and years of treatment significantly predict Anger Temperament. Anger Out is influenced and predicted by duration of marriage and years of treatment. This implies that as the age of infertile women, duration of marriage and years of treatment increase Trait Anger, Anger Temperament and Anger Out reduces. We infer that infertile women deal with anger effectively with age. During the initial phase of treatment, infertile women would experience and express anger and may require psychological and social support in dealing with anger effectively. © 2020, Advanced Scientific Research. All rights reserved.

International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research

Age, duration of marriage, years of treatment, anger experience and expression among infertile women in the treatment

English language speaking anxiety is considered as one of the most challenging issues in teaching learning process. Educationists and researchers have undertaken numerous, in-depth research on causes and reasons for speaking anxiety. There are many internal and external factors that impact the level or intensity of speaking anxiety. This paper highlights the various factors that lead to speaking anxiety of Arts and Science college students who belong to different discipline. It also focuses on the measures taken by them to overcome speaking anxiety factors. © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Fulltext

Procedia Computer Science

A study of factors affecting and causing speaking anxiety

The overwhelming choice of restaurants often leads to confusion among consumers. The choice of consumers are influenced and determined by several factors. Most of the consumers read online reviews about the restaurants and make a choice based on review ratings. The article aims to analyze various factors that influence a customer in choosing a restaurant, the mode of payment, the overall review and satisfaction of the customers. A survey on students’ preference and satisfaction towards restaurants was conducted in Chennai. A questionnaire was circulated among the students personally and through various social media platforms. The collected data is analyzed with the statistical methods and the results are visualized on R studio, a free software environment for statistical computing. Further a comparative study is done on an average expenditure spent on food during a normal weekend and exam weekend. The statistical model discussed in the data provides the percentage of girls and boys participated in the survey, students’ preference of restaurants outside as well as inside the campus, the occasions in which they dine out and mode of payment (like cash, card, paytm etc.,). The article explores students’ expectation before placing an order in a restaurant, the average rating of the restaurants in general, quality and satisfaction of the customers. © 2020 SERSC.

International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology

Students’ preference and satisfaction towards restaurants in Chennai city

The essay examines Robin Cook’s (1977) Coma and Priscille Sibley’s (2013) The Promise of Stardust that dramatize the reified and disposable status of the brain-dead patients who are classified as nonpersons. The essay argues that the man-machine entanglement as depicted in the novels constructs a deterritorialized and entangled form of subjectivity that intervenes in the dominant biomedical understanding of personhood and agency that we notionally associate with a conscious mind. The essay concludes its arguments by discussing Alexander Beliaev’s (1925) Professor Dowell’s Head which depicts human subjectivity as an essentially embodied and distributive phenomenon and interrogates the Cartesian mind body dualism embedded in the dominant biomedical narratives. © 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Journal of Medical Humanities

Embodiment and Entangled Subjectivity: A Study of Robin Cook’s Coma, Priscille Sibley’s The Promise of Stardust and Alexander Beliaev’s Professor Dowell’s Head

This essay examines Kishwar Desai's Origins of Love (2012) in order to foreground how the novel is complexly reflective of the biomedical technologies strategically deployed by medical practitioners and prospective parents for the purpose of reinforcing caste-based bionormative notion of family that artificial reproductive technology is assumed to have problematised. The essay also demonstrates how the use of bioenhancement facilities has led to the revival of neoliberal eugenics enmeshed with state-led biopolitics. The essay draws on the concept of renaturalisation discussed by Tamar Sharon in order to examine how the schizophrenic or deterritorialising potential of reproductive technology is reconfigured and domesticated by the medicolegal practitioners in order to reterritorialise the normative structures of kinship and family formation within a capitalist consumerist culture. © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.

Medical Humanities

'These were made-to-order babies': Reterritorialised Kinship, Neoliberal Eugenics and Artificial Reproductive Technology in Kishwar Desai's Origins of Love

Vocabulary is the flesh of a language, which is an indispensable constituent for a language. This research highlights the role of language learners' acquisition in incidental and intentional vocabulary by using technological modality. Effective usage of vocabulary in communication and comprehension is crucial and demanding as well. English being the diplomatic language, and which is witnessed as a parameter for graduates, particularly in job acquisition. There are numerous teaching methods were followed for effective learning. In order to benefit, English as a second language (ESL) learners and English as a foreign language (EFL) learners, task-based learning (TBL) approach is observed to be an effective learning method. This paper devices to use technology, entertainment, and design (TED) talk video with subtitles in the syllabus of TBL learning for effective learning of incidental and intentional vocabulary in language and succeeded by analysing the response from the students. The study reveals the significant development and interest in learning a new word by using the authentic instructional TED talk videos for vocabulary learning and vocabulary acquisition. Copyright © 2020 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

VIT Unitversity

International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise

Using technological modality to learn vocabulary incidentally and intentionally for effective communication

A man must take right decision in order to make the outcome to be good for many. If we fail to make the right choice, the untold misery will be the consequence of man’s actions. The comparison of two movies, Deep Blue Sea and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) convey the importance of nurturing ethical values among the viewers and the instinct to utilize movies is mainly due to its easy accessibility and its impact on the viewers. This attempt brings out clearly how self-interest annihilates the existence of the entire humanity and right thinking preserves the lives of people.