Teaching is a process which we should do passionately as I think because if you are a teacher that means you are interested in teaching. If it is not, then what should be the reason behind becoming a teacher? That is what is expensive for the teacher to teach passionately with the wider sense of using the concept teacher subject or a language.
Hence, I had written this blog from the perspective of the teacher. Like what sort of activities teacher should plan before teaching any particular topic aise hi given below.
What sort of activity can be designed to teach language using a Novel
Start with a pre-task activity.
This stage starts with the instructor explaining to her students what will be expected in the task cycle and post-task review stages. In a lower-level class, it will likely include an introduction or review of key vocabulary or grammatical concepts the students will need to accomplish the assigned task.
This is very much in line with the PPP
presentation
practice
performance
approach to instructional design. In a higher-level class, where the grammar and vocabulary have already been introduced, the students might be asked to brainstorm as to what language and linguistic features they would expect to need in order to complete the task successfully.
Poetry
General objectives:
To develop the aesthetic sense among learners to appreciate beauty.
To appreciate the music by identifying rhyme and rhythm.
To train the emotions of the learners and increase their power of imagination.
Specific objective:
To enable the students to read and enjoy the poem and comprehend the idea.
To enable them to appreciate rhythm and rhyme poetry analysis.
Skills and provide guidelines on how to approach a poem and develop critical responses to it. It is intended for use by Literature in English teachers either as a learning task in the class or as supplementary materials to promote self-directed learning and extend students’ learning beyond the classroom.
Step 1
focusses on ways to approach a poem and the fundamentals of poetry analysis. It includes the following parts:
A. Ten Steps to Analyse a Poem
B. Key Aspects and Guiding Questions for Poetry Analysis
C. Writing an Analytical Paragraph
D. Writing Practice
Step 2
helps students to consolidate the knowledge and skills acquired in Set 1 through applying them in an integrative manner to analyse a new poem. It includes the following parts:
Validity is defined as the extent to which a concept is accurately measured in a quantitative study.
Types of validity
Content validity
This category looks at whether the instrument adequately covers all the content that it should with respect to the variable. The extent to which a research instrument accurately measures all aspects of a construct. A subset of content validity is face validity, where experts are asked their opinion about whether an instrument measures the concept intended.
Construct validity
The extent to which a research instrument (or tool) measures the intended construct. Construct validity refers to whether you can draw inferences about test scores related to the concept being studied.
Criterion validity
The extent to which a research instrument is related to other instruments that measure the same variables. A criterion is any other instrument that measures the same variable. Correlations can be conducted to determine the extent to which the different instruments measure the same variable.
Reliability
Reliability relates to the consistency of a measure. A participant completing an instrument meant to measure
motivation should have approximately the same responses each time the test is completed. Although it is not possible to give an exact calculation of reliability, an estimate of reliability can be achieved through different measures.
Test is reliable when scores obtained on a certain occasion are consistent with results when the same test is administered to the same students at a different time. Scorer reliability is also seen as an important consideration for test reliability that is when scorers can easily recognize one correct response or a degree of judgment is needed on the part of the scorer. Hughes offers advice on how to make a test more reliable.
Without reliability of assessments you can’t have validity of the respondent's mastery of the subject.
Chetan Bhagat was on born 22 April 1974. He is an Indian author and columnist. He was included in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010.
He has written nine novels and three non-fiction books. His first novel, Five Point Someone, was published in 2004. His novels have been listed as bestsellers.
Works: -
Five of Chetan Bhagat's novels have been adapted into Bollywood films like
Hello in 2008 (based on One Night @ the Call Center)
3 Idiots in 2009 (based on Five Point Someone)
Kai Po Che! in 2013 (based on The 3 Mistakes of My Life)
2 States in 2014 (based on his novel of the same name)
Half Girlfriend in 2017 (based on his novel of the same name).
Bhagat has also written the scripts for Bollywood films like Kick in 2014 and adapted his stories for the movies Kai Po Che! and Half Girlfriend. Bhagat won the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Kai Po Che! at the 59th Filmfare Awards in 2014.
About Book: One Night @ The Call Centre
One Night @ the Call Center is a novel written by Chetan Bhagat and first published in 2005. The novel revolves around a group of six call center employees working at the Connexions call center in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. It takes place during one night, during which all of the leading characters confront some aspect of themselves or their lives they would like to change. The story uses a literal deus ex machina, when the characters receive a phone call from God.
Globalization
and
One Night @The Call Centre
What is Globalization?
Globalization means the speedup of movements and exchanges (of human beings, goods, and services, capital, technologies or cultural practices) all over the planet. One of the effects of globalization is that it promotes and increases interactions between different regions and populations around the globe.
Globalization in One Night @The Call Centre
Globalization has converted the whole world into a small village. It is stated,
"Globalization is no longer a theoretical concept; it is a glaring reality, impinging upon almost every aspect of human existence" (Sam and Sam 1044-1045).
Chetan Bhagat is such a budding novelist who considers it his responsibility to appeal to the young generation in India by writing a novel based on the call center which is a gift of globalization. It is stated,
“The global trend has not left the society untouched. Due to free incoming of values, costumes, dresses, and the living habits of western world, the basis of Indian culture has been greatly influenced” (Sam and G. Sam 1051).
Although call centres are considered as a boon for India which is facing the problem of unemployment, Bhagat Looks at the call centre culture in a different way. No doubt he supports such liberalization coming to India But He also highlights it's worse implications on the modern generation who are the victims of such change. Chetan Bhagat is the follower of change who believes in the transformation of society. For this Globalization and modernization plays an important role and India Cannot Shy away from this change.
Effect of globalization in the novel:
Through his works Bhagat subtly portrays the fast growing cities and urban zones along with all the global factors, affecting the life, experience, dreams, and attitudes of today's youth. Bhagat very comfortably depicts women empowerment as one of the positive effects of globalization but at the same time consumerism, eroding values, and rising fears and anxieties of urban Indians as some of the negative offshoots of it cannot escape his piercing observations. Thus, it can be viewed easily in the plot of his novel One Night @ the Call Center.In the novel we come across fast growing city structures like Gurgaon (Haryana), where now massive apartments and commercial malls are under construction. Here there are long and broad highways making journey easier. Basava states,
“A number of efforts to remove infrastructural constraints in order to facilitate the process of globalization are underway. The BPO sector rapidly developed in urban India and could create lakhs of jobs by the mid of first decade of 21st century (M.G. Basava Raja 1015).
The BPO sector can be witnessed in Bhagat’s novel. In Bhagat’snovelOne Night @ the Call Center, 'Connexions Call Centre' is a good example of BPO culture. Bhagat very comfortably depicts the atmosphere in the call centre. Therein we see people moving about quite frequently. The six people namely
Shyam
Vroom
Esha
Priyanka,
Radhika
Military uncle
are working in the call centre are picked up by a call center's car every night from their respective homes in Delhi, and are dropped at their work place at Gurgaon.
They deal with customers of home appliances such as refrigerators, ovens and vacuum cleaners and are skilled in dealing with troublesome and painful customers. They work in shifts starting from 10.30 p.m. to 6.30 a.m. The people working in call centres face exploitation at the hands of westerners and Chetan Bhagat has clearly depicted it in his novel. The characters in the novel are forced to use western names instead of their Indian names and are treated as ‘Resources’ in the call center. The Boss of the call centre always disgraces the employees and never heeds to their complaints against the computer systems. Instead he gets all the credit of the work done by his team. Working in such an environment becomes painful for them for most of the time they feel embarrassed at the hands of Americans.
Chetan Bhagat portrays call centres are popularly believed to be places of joy and enjoyment but in reality these jobs waste the full potentiality of bright young people who take them up out of financial compulsion. The novel mirrors serious issues of contemporary Indian urban middle class milieu due to the modernization. All the characters of the novel having a middle class background find it hard to survive in the contemporary environment.
Popular Literature
The ability to tell a tale, to devise its episodes with such skill that the reader often cannot bear to put the book aside, to touch on common sympathies, to understand the judgements and desires of ordinary people, to oïŽ er the keen experience of danger, of anxiety, of love, of sorrow, of triumph, but all without the intruding shadow of the actual, without obliging us to quit the Illyrian trance, so to speak, or the hermetic fold of the airport lounge. To do all this takes talent, and the money we pay for our distraction is fairly earned. (Nash 1990: 2 – 3)
What is Popular Literature
Popular literature includes those writings intended for the masses and those that find favour with large audiences. It can be distinguished from artistic literature in that it is designed primarily to entertain. Popular literature, unlike high literature, generally does not seek a high degree of formal beauty or subtlety and is not intended to endure.
The growth of popular literature has paralleled the spread of literacy through education and has been facilitated by technological developments in printing. With the Industrial Revolution, works of literature, which were previously produced for consumption by small, well-educated elites, became accessible to large sections and even majorities of the members of a population.
Popular Literature & one night @ the call centre
Chetan Bhagat is a popular writer of the age in his work; he uses simple language that is very easy to understand for the reader. His books appeal to the reader widely accepted by the youngsters. This novel there are some situations and like supernatural things that have not happened in reality or real life. In One Night @ Call center in,
GOD’s Call
More familiar or accepted moral teaching.
Highly reflective of philosophy of life.
Narrative technique.
Mystic elements and supernatural elements, like the end of the novel.
Thank you ...
Works Cited
Bhagat,Chetan. One Night @ the Call Center. New Delhi: Rupa & Co. 2005. Print.
Nash, W. (1990), Language in Popular Fiction , London: Routledge
Kshirsagar, Anil, Mrs. R.P. Bonde, and Dr. Suvarna T. Shinde. “Globalization and the Changing Urban Realities in India in Chetan Bhagat's One Night @ The Call Center and 2 States”. The Criterion. Vol III Issue IV (December 2012): 1-8. Print
What happens when a dream you've held since childhood ... doesn't come true?
As Lisa Bu adjusted to a new life in the United States, she turned to books to expand her mind and create a new path for herself. She shares her unique approach to reading in this lovely, personal talk about the magic of books.
Translated by Joseph Geni
Reviewed by Morton Bast
00:04
So I was trained to become a gymnast for two years in Hunan, China in the 1970s. When I was in the first grade, the government wanted to transfer me to a school for athletes, all expenses paid. But my tiger mother said, "No." My parents wanted me to become an engineer like them. After surviving the Cultural Revolution, they firmly believed there's only one sure way to happiness: a safe and well-paid job. It is not important if I like the job or not.
00:36
But my dream was to become a Chinese opera singer. That is me playing my imaginary piano. An opera singer must start training young to learn acrobatics, so I tried everything I could to go to opera school. I even wrote to the school principal and the host of a radio show. But no adults liked the idea. No adults believed I was serious. Only my friends supported me, but they were kids, just as powerless as I was. So at age 15, I knew I was too old to be trained. My dream would never come true. I was afraid that for the rest of my life some second-class happiness would be the best I could hope for.
01:26
But that's so unfair. So I was determined to find another calling. Nobody around to teach me? Fine. I turned to books.
01:37
I satisfied my hunger for parental advice from this book by a family of writers and musicians.["Correspondence in the Family of Fou Lei"]
01:45
I found my role model of an independent woman when Confucian tradition requires obedience.["Jane Eyre"]
01:52
And I learned to be efficient from this book.["Cheaper by the Dozen"]
01:56
And I was inspired to study abroad after reading these.
02:00
["Complete Works of Sanmao" (aka Echo Chan)] ["Lessons From History" by Nan Huaijin]
02:02
I came to the U.S. in 1995, so which books did I read here first? Books banned in China, of course. "The Good Earth" is about Chinese peasant life. That's just not convenient for propaganda. Got it. The Bible is interesting, but strange. (Laughter) That's a topic for a different day. But the fifth commandment gave me an epiphany: "You shall honor your father and mother." "Honor," I said. "That's so different, and better, than obey." So it becomes my tool to climb out of this Confucian guilt trap and to restart my relationship with my parents.
02:49
Encountering a new culture also started my habit of comparative reading. It offers many insights. For example, I found this map out of place at first because this is what Chinese students grew up with. It had never occurred to me, China doesn't have to be at the center of the world. A map actually carries somebody's view. Comparative reading actually is nothing new. It's a standard practice in the academic world. There are even research fields such as comparative religion and comparative literature.
03:25
Compare and contrast gives scholars a more complete understanding of a topic. So I thought, well, if comparative reading works for research, why not do it in daily life too? So I started reading books in pairs. So they can be about people -- ["Benjamin Franklin" by Walter Isaacson]["John Adams" by David McCullough] -- who are involved in the same event, or friends with shared experiences. ["Personal History" by Katharine Graham]["The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life," by Alice Schroeder] I also compare the same stories in different genres -- (Laughter) [Holy Bible: King James Version]["Lamb" by Chrisopher Moore] -- or similar stories from different cultures, as Joseph Campbell did in his wonderful book.["The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell] For example, both the Christ and the Buddha went through three temptations. For the Christ, the temptations are economic, political and spiritual. For the Buddha, they are all psychological: lust, fear and social duty -- interesting.
04:24
So if you know a foreign language, it's also fun to read your favorite books in two languages. ["The Way of Chuang Tzu" Thomas Merton]["Tao: The Watercourse Way" Alan Watts] Instead of lost in translation, I found there is much to gain. For example, it's through translation that I realized "happiness" in Chinese literally means "fast joy." Huh! "Bride" in Chinese literally means "new mother." Uh-oh. (Laughter)
04:52
Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again. Having a dream shattered really is nothing compared to what many others have suffered. I have come to believe that coming true is not the only purpose of a dream. Its most important purpose is to get us in touch with where dreams come from, where passion comes from, where happiness comes from. Even a shattered dream can do that for you.
05:29
So because of books, I'm here today, happy, living again with a purpose and a clarity, most of the time. So may books be always with you.
Welcome to my blog. In this blog i have given the content about how technology can help us into the teaching process. Because normally people believe that technology will distract the mind of learner. The effective use of Teaching through technology will help us to learn faster than the other way of learning. Because the effective use of photos, animation, audio-visuals etc...will be beneficial to learners and Teachers to interact with each other.
Here, I have attached power point Presentation. It is based on the Teaching through technology that how various 2.0 web tools are useful in the teaching. Inthis activity i prepared lesson plan. Only click on the next button they can do various exercises and also get the answer key. In below give ppt i have used 2.0 web tools like
