English Language Teaching

 

Hello Friends 

(Salve amicis),

         Enthusiastic welcome to my blog. I am going to elaborate on the 'Learning Language'. It can be a challenging and fascinating experience. Because when we think or might feel that we have hit a brick wall and motivating yourself can become difficult. We don't have to forget that speaking a second language not only opens new ways but it's like becoming a member of the club.It has numerous other advantages such as 'Beautifying Memory'. Learning multiple languages means we are gaining something and changing our attitude towards the world. As below given quotation

 "Knowledge of language is the doorway to wisdom"

-Roger Bacon

English Language Teaching:-

       The concept of English language is a pre-eminent position relative to the language in the educational, social and historical set up. There is fundamental illogicity in treating  English as a second language along with the other languages. English in spite of the tremendous investments in ELT, the situation can only be reminded by recognising and redefining the role and goals of English as a foreign language and by choosing the right language teaching theories and practise.

So let’s discuss in detail the English language teaching factors.                             

Bilingualism:-

The bilingual means ‘Fluency in or use of two languages’. Bilingualism is the existence of two different languages within the speech repertoire of either an individual or a society. By speech repertoire, we mean the totality of language, dialects and their superposed social and cultural variants that an individual possesses. 

     We can liken speech repertoire to the brain, memory or linguistic store that harbours all the languages and the varieties of languages each individual possesses. Therefore the bilingual is bilingual education, when a student is taught in both English and the language of their native country. An example of the person who can speak both the languages English as well as Italian.

   

   

Trilingualism:-

Trilingualism means ‘the ability to speak in three languages’. The condition of being trilingual, it is possible that trilinguals develop even more cognitive re88serve than bilinguals. These additional gains to manifest, trilingual demands need to be higher than the bilingual demands. For example

Multilingualism:-

     Multilingualism is the ability of an individual speaker or a community of speakers to communicate effectively in three or more languages. It is totally in contrast to ‘Monolingualism’, the ability to use only one language. Those who can speak multiple languages are known as a polyglot or a Multilingual. It is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of globalization and cultural openness.

Multilingualism makes the curiosity of learning the language endowed by other languages, which builds on internationality and national solidarity.  Develop not only better verbal, but also spatial abilities. For example

"A different language is different vision of life".

- Federico Fellini

Thank you.........

Epidemic and Me

 

What is Epidemic ?

A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

Whilst “endemic” is the baseline level of a disease, an epidemic refers to the, often sudden, rise in the number of cases of a particular disease above the normal endemic level. The number of cases varies according to the disease-causing agent, and the size and type of previous and existing exposure to the agent. The precise definition will depend on the literature in which it is presented, and there is no established threshold for the number of cases, duration of disease or geographical area affected for something to be deemed an epidemic. Seasonal influenza in people is often described as a seasonal epidemic.

Learning experience on TED-ED

Learning experience  on the TED-ED

Blogs have been used in online education to bring current topics to Management courses like the same thing we have on TED-ED Platform and This is an innovative way to enhance online classrooms. 

“As traditional classrooms are changing nationwide and 6 careers are dependent on strong computer skills, blogging helps your students develop necessary skills for their continuing education and gainful employment.” (Pappas, 2013). 

TED Talks also provide a way to provide deep discussions and extra engagement to online classrooms. Topics range from online education, technology management and data-driven business to enhance online engagement in discussions and assignments.

Deconstructive Reading of Sonnet 18

Deconstruction 

Deconstructionism is a technique of literary criticism which seeks to analyze a work as thoroughly as possible as it pertains to other works. In other words, according to creator Jacques Derrida, 

"there is nothing outside the text"

Every written source is in itself a linked text; Derrida believed that there was no objectivity possible. The main aim is to understand why the work was created, by examining the "context" of its creation: history, era, culture, society, and other similar works.

How to Deconstruct the poem:-

To analyze a poem using deconstruction, the first step should be to place down the superficial meaning; 

• What do the words say? 

• How does the poem speak to you?

 Most examinations of poetry focus on the surface meaning without digging deeper. You should try to find out where and why the poem was written, and for what purpose: was it a response to cultural norms, or a reflection of self-examination? Who was the writer, and why was this poem, at this time, so important?

 

Historical Context 

The historical context is also important. Many poems directly reflect public sentiment of the time, while others deliberately go against the popular sentiment. Use your knowledge of the writer and his/her lifestyle to understand how the poem reflects the times.

Deconstructive Reading of Sonnet 18

Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Learning experience on the TED-ED 

Albert camus's The Plague

Hello Readers,

As we know that at every point of time everything is changed by chance, force or naturally. May it have a longer effect on human life. Which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe.

Therefore lots of horrible phenomena which happened in the past that always live in our memories. That is what literature always keeps. Literature connects the entire world to what was the past and present, may it predict the future. That is why the past always remains present in every sheds of life in different shapes.

In the present situation the COVID-19 pandemic, as in all crises, brings out the best and worst of humanity. There is heroism and perfidy, complacency as well as discontent and cynicism; despair, anger, and fatalism. All told, individuals exhibit a wide spectrum of emotions, mindsets and attitudes toward a distressing event such as the present pandemic now sweeping the globe. As like 

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

                               - R.L. Stine

Because all have different perspectives to look at the things. Here in this blog I have written about the overall effect of plague and how it is portrayed by Albert camus in his book "The plague" (La Peste).

Albert camus 

Albert Camus was French philosopher, author and journalist. Camus was born on 7 November 1913 and died on 4 January 1960. He ignored systematic philosophy, had little faith in rationalism rather than argued the main Idea he accepted the Aristotelian  idea that philosophy begins in wonder.

The plague 

The book "The plague" which hauntingly captures the varying responses and struggles of people in today’s societies. La Peste portrays characters as they struggle against the plague (the Bubonic plague) sweeping a city in Algeria called Oran. Although a fictionalized piece of literature set in the 1940s.

The Plague is believed to be a depiction of true events in the coastal city of Oran, Algeria which has been decimated by intermittent outbreaks of cholera throughout its long history.

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when thousands of rats suddenly  begin to die on the streets of Oran. As the populace begin to notice the unexplained deaths, hysteria develops, and the rats fear the spread of bubonic plague.

As more and more people fall ill and die, the town is sealed off, gates are shut, rail travel prohibited, and all mail service suspended. In today’s lingo, Oran was put on enhanced community quarantine.

The whole oran is covered with the struggles, their pains, despair and finally redemption. Camus’ characters mirror our own attitudes and responses towards the current coronavirus pandemic.

Dr. Rieux sees that many are falling ill and dying helplessly, and decides to devote all his expertise as a doctor to alleviate the suffering of the victims. Like the same nowadays doctors are paying their valuable time and duties for coronavirus affected patients to recover.

■Humanity and self centredness 

camus's of upheld in the novel The plague and makes a study of a major character to prove that they are existentialist in Heideggerian and sartre rain themes of death, alienation and a bad faith.

Furthermore it studies how the characters in the novel are inclined to deny the cruelty of their condition and hide themselves in their illusory world governed by habit.

Camus presents a contrast in the novel between the Spiritual and Mundane in life and focuses on the vision of a better society. which is based on human values. it studies the existential anguish and the cries, through characters such as dr.Rieux, Father Paneloux, Rambert ,Tarrou and cottard.

Camus's writing The Myth of Sisyphus is dedicated to establishing conscious recognition of the absurd. The purpose of The Myth of Sisyphus is to determine whether suicide is a logical reaction for the man who realises that life is absurd. The discovery of this absurd or a meaninglessness leads one to revolt, which replaces empty forms with authentically significant acts. In The Plague the notion of absurdity is presented as a collective experience. 

Conflict of Religion and science in The Plague 

Camus juxtaposes medicine against government and religion in his quest to find medical meaning in an absurd world.

The perfect shelters himself from responsibility, other townsfolk find solace in religion. Camus again distinguishes individuals from societal groups—this time, religion rather than government. The townsfolk, as to be expected, are slow to religious action as long as they can deny the plague’s existence in its early stages.

Town resolved to do battle against the plague with the weapons appropriate to them, and organized a Week of Prayer.

In the advancement  of science the meaning of medicine in an absurd world, Camus paints Oran as “a town without intimations; in other words, completely modern”, “Modern” at the time of Camus’ writing of this novel would refer to the technological advances moving to the forefront of medical practice, as well as the concomitant isolation of the patient within such a sterile system. 

Indeed, Camus describes the alienation of the ill in such a “completely modern” town as a metaphor for how a dehumanized society can isolate patients trusting.

Epidemic Literature 

Here l mentioned the whole historical epidemic which has a deep impact on the literature.  It always remains present in the literature and plague or other epidemic raised the writing advancement of writer

Prehistoric epidemic:circa	3000 B.C.
Plague of Athens	430 B.C.
Antonine plague	A.D. 165 - 180
Plague of cyprian	A.D. 250 - 271
Plague of justinian	A.D. 541 - 542
The Black Death	1345 - 1353
Cocoliztli epidemic	1545 - 1548
American plague	16th century
Great plague of London	1665 - 1666
Great plague of Marseille	1720 - 1723
Rassian plague	1770 - 1772
Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic	1793
Flu pandemic	1889 - 1890
American polio epidemic	1916
Spanish flu	1918 - 1920
Asian flu	1957 - 1958
AIDS pandemic and epidemic	1981 - present day
H1M1 Swine flu pandemic	2009 - 2010
West African Ebola epidemic	2014 - 2016
Zika virus epidemic	2015

Views on Marriage

Marriage is a powerful creator and sustainer of human and social capital for adults as well as children, about as important as education when it comes to promoting the health, wealth, and well-being of adults and communities. 

Here l have attached the views of marriage, as all have different opinions and perspectives to look the marriage.

 It's how we make it to be. In India, marriage is just for the sake of sex and sacrifice and many other things. Reasons behind marrying are forceful, girl marries as to get backup economically and socially.  We marry for sex, money, social status etc. When it comes to marriage, society says that a man should be earning good. When girl's family should also think about their girl's independence economically. Then money will not become forceful reason behind marriage. We can say becoming 18 or 21 of age is not the criteria of marrying. Our perspective towards marriage is not individual but here family marries to another family that is the main problem. If I don't like my fiance after engagement then I should think about my family's status and their feelings before saying no.One must marry when one wants to get married. 

 In our culture we say "Chhokri jova joiye Che" ,it's must be an object for showcasing. We don't meet but see in arrange marriage. Family sees boy's income and status, on this base the marriage is confirmed. And one cannot even get a chance to have time with his/her for knowing. Logic is simple, without knowing someone how can you marry, and yes knowing someone can not make you to give a decision on marriage. We come into contact with many people, then it will become impossible to accept that person whom we even don't know or with whom we have not shared our feeling before. Marriage is beautiful journey when one wishes to get in..

           ~ Alpa ponda 

 Jane Austen being feminine is use to convey her feelings in her novels. And about her, marriage is the supreme gift which is what believed by her. Is it good to marry? Of course when you are finding a soul to be mingle with. (Or one can go alone like one can see in the movie Queen of Kangana) what I do believe is everything is ok with marriage or it can be ok with living together without marriage like the concept is going on in recent time.

-  Kaushal Desai

 Marriage is one of the oldest ritual and part of human life. As per my opinion it is obviously important to set the relationship system on the earth. It is a system to establish faith, fellowship and co-operation, commitment among men and women. These everything can be done without marriage too but the most important role of  marriage is that it forms 'family' which is much needed to live life full of emotions and peace.

- Jignesh Golil