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{"title":"EMPOWERING LEARNERS THROUGH PAPERLESS CLASSROOMS","authors":"K. Baby","doi":"10.36993/rjoe.2019.126131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36993/rjoe.2019.126131","url":null,"abstract":"The quality of an educational system can be assessed by the effectiveness of the learning outcome embodied in that system. This objective can be achieved through the implementation of paperless classrooms which is essentially a process of self-reflection, research and critical evaluation for teachers as well as learners in their immediate classroom environment. The teachers are empowered by a critical self-evaluation of their current teaching practice through an analysis of the learning outcome achieved in their classrooms. Consequently, the learners are empowered or benefitted from the modified behaviour of the teacher to achieve better learning outcome in future. The digitalization of education and educational resources brought about by the rapid technological development necessitated this new paradigm of learning. This study has two parts. The first part explains the concept of paperless classroom and second part vindicates how both teachers and learners are empowered by this mode of teaching and learning.","PeriodicalId":447932,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal Of English","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123221467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"RABINDRANATH TAGORE’S LOVE LYRICS: A FUSION OF THE DEVINE AND THE HUMANE","authors":"Rejie George","doi":"10.36993/rjoe.2019.5565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36993/rjoe.2019.5565","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447932,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal Of English","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124552401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE IMPACTS OF INDIAN MYTHS IN BAAHUBALI (THE BEGINNING AND THE CONCLUSION)","authors":"K. Poompavai","doi":"10.36993/rjoe.2019.4548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36993/rjoe.2019.4548","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447932,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal Of English","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132981098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"WORLD PRESERVATION BY CONSERVING NATURE THROUGH WALT WHITMAN AND KEKI N. DARUWALLA POEMS","authors":"R. Tewari","doi":"10.36993/rjoe.2019.144147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36993/rjoe.2019.144147","url":null,"abstract":"Keki N. Daruwalla and Walt Whitman both the poets were lover of nature. They observed nature and even talked to the same. They admired it’s beauty. They even showed great concern for the nature. They wrote about what they observed. They were minute observer of nature. They were totally against killing of animals. They felt that people can learn even from animals how to be loving, kind, compassionate and live in group. They don’t discriminate, hate or feel jealous so why human beings does the same. There is no cut throat competition amongst them. They are satisfied. They have relaxed sleep at night. They don’t complain. Flood and draught are caused due to cutting down of trees. Women and children are the worst victims of the same. Diseases are spread and animals also die. One should try to preserve nature for better future. We should leave better world for the coming future citizens.","PeriodicalId":447932,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal Of English","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127113991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethno-ornithology: Birds in Jando and Nsondo folksongs among the Yawo of South-Eastern Malawi","authors":"Witness Mdoka","doi":"10.36993/rjoe.2022.7401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36993/rjoe.2022.7401","url":null,"abstract":"From an ethno-ornithological perspective, this article analyses how birds are sources of indigenous ecological knowledge that can be utilised for environmental pedagogy. The article demonstrates how the depiction of birds in jando and nsondo initiation songs for boys and girls, respectively, reflect the people’s environmental consciousness. Children are ingrained in their environment and teaching them ecocentric values through birds is likely to mesmerise their interests in nature. When children grow up with informed knowledge about their environment, their likelihood of being environmental stewards is high because they have been exposed to the interrelatedness of ecological entities at a tender age. They begin to value human-animal relationships and the various ways through which they are ineluctably interrelated. Such values inform an environmental ethic that ensures not only earth-centredness, but also the restoration of the lost biodiversity. My endeavour in this article is to draw from oral literature, especially the folksong as an oral genre in order to analyse the depiction of birds and how they relate with humans. The findings reveal that birds are vehicles through which the people sight see the environment and express their experiential knowledge about nature.","PeriodicalId":447932,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal Of English","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130204072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE TEACHER WHO TALKS A LOT IS TEACHING A LOT: REALLY?","authors":"Dr Ankita Khanna","doi":"10.36993/rjoe.2020.95100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36993/rjoe.2020.95100","url":null,"abstract":"The evolution of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) conveyed with it a methodology, which emphasised communication in the classroom, pair and group activities and student involvement in the learning process. The shift was from ‘learning the language’ to ‘using the language’. Distinguishing it from the previous methods, this method advocated ‘student-led class’ as compared to ‘student-centered class’. The learning happens through meaningful and focused student interaction in the target language, leaving no scope for teacher to talk a lot. Many theories based on CLT insist that teacher talking time (TTT) is counterproductive and that teachers should reduce TTT and encourage student talking time (STT). This paper dwells upon the idea of reducing TTT and providing more opportunities to learners by increasing STT. It proposes to understand the reasons for the increased TTT and provides rationale and solutions to overcome it. The suggestions in this paper are drafted to be of use to the educators of English as a Second Language at various levels of teaching. It is hoped that the recommendations in this paper will provide a fresh insight to teacher’s role in the foreign language learning classrooms. Introduction Communicative Language Teaching is a natural follow-on from the reaction during the 70s against previous methods which over-focused on teaching grammatical structures and template sentences, and which gave little or no importance to how language is actually used practically. It emphasizes on the student-led classrooms and focuses on reducing TTT in the language classrooms. Most of the times, it is believed by the teachers that they are the fountain of knowledge and their duty is to disseminate the knowledge to the world; for which they resort to delivering lectures. This maybe a good approach for the disciplines that are more ‘content’ oriented, however, for the language teaching where the objective is not accumulation of any principles, rules or theories, it may not be appropriate. Broadly, disciplines dealt in the Schools and Universities can be categorized into ‘knowledge based disciplines’ and ‘skill based discipline’. To elaborate upon this I would like to give an example of a philosophy class or a literature class. Such classes demand intense discussions and sometimes even teacher-led approach. Whereas in classes like soft skills, communication skills or language learning, the approach has to be different. The talk time Oray’s Publications Impact Factor: 4.845(SJIF) Research Journal Of English (RJOE) Vol-5, Issue-2, 2020 www.rjoe.org.in An International Peer-Reviewed English Journal ISSN: 2456-2696 Indexed in: International Citation Indexing (ICI), International Scientific Indexing (ISI), Directory of Research Journal Indexing (DRJI) Google Scholar & Cosmos. ______________________________________________________________________________ Research Journal Of English (RJOE) Copyright Oray’s Publication Page 96 allocated to students needs to","PeriodicalId":447932,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal Of English","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114719281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ISOLATIONOF WOMEN CHARACTERSIN STORIES","authors":"M. Maheswaran, Dr.M. Rajaambethkar","doi":"10.36993/rjoe.2019.1219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36993/rjoe.2019.1219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":447932,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal Of English","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116922904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"TEACHING SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGIES","authors":"G. Sanjay, T. Narayana","doi":"10.36993/rjoe.2020.3749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36993/rjoe.2020.3749","url":null,"abstract":"The present study deals with motivational strategies in teaching speaking. For the purpose of this study, thirty practicing teachers of English were interviewed. Some of those teachers work in polytechnic college’s urban area and some at rural colleges. As the instrument of this research, a semi-structured interview was used and it contains nine items. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, analysed and discussed. The first part of the research paper is theoretical. The theoretical part, based on relevant literature, attempts to define the general concept of motivation, motivational strategies in general and motivational strategies used for speaking activities. After that, it deals with the development of the speaking skill and with the problems connected with speaking activites. The second part of the article describes the study. It explains the aim of the study, describes the sample (the participants), the instrument and the procedure. The aim of the study, i. e. research questions are defined, the participants' demographic data outlined, and then the instrument (the interview) and the procedure are described. After that, the results are listed and discussed. The discussion is based on the results and is divided into categories according to specific motivational strategies. In the end, conclusions are drawn on the basis of the results and the discussion.","PeriodicalId":447932,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal Of English","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114608234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"POST INDEPENDENCE SOCIO-POLITICAL REALITIES IN NGUGI WA THIONGO’S PETALS OF BLOOD","authors":"K. V. R. Chary, M. Venumadhav","doi":"10.36993/rjoe.2019.0106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36993/rjoe.2019.0106","url":null,"abstract":"Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the Kenyan novelist, critic and playwright, has drawn worldwide critical attention for his mastery of medium of fiction as well as his activist writings. His large corpus of work carries the stamp of the strong impetus of activist in him and his overtly ideological position has only added a thrust to his fictional works. Ngugi has written both during the colonial and post-colonial periods and as such his works portray different periods in recent Kenyan history--its independence struggle, Mau Mau rebellion which is a recurrent motif in his novels, and the resistance to neo-colonial policies and attitudes in the form of postindependence disillusion evident since his fourth novel Petals of Blood. History and politics thus play a major part in Ngugi’s fiction. His literary consciousness is shaped by liberation aesthetics or poetics of commitment. The present paper makes an attempt to unfold the post independent socio-political realities in Kenyan societies. In Petals of Blood, Ngugi attempts to survey the unpleasant events of neocolonial scenario of the country between 1963 and 1975. As the title implies the new world manifests in the flowering (Petals) of a new egalitarian and just order brought about by struggle and sacrifice (blood). The thematic strands depicted in the novel are politics, colonial and neocolonial, history past and present, its impact, violence and its manifold nature. This artistic representation of betrayal of independence movement is perhaps the most authentic account of the evils perpetrated in independent African society by the neo-colonial masters who represent the interests of western capitalists. In this novel Ngugi depicts the nexus between the above vile forces by illuminating the economic structure and class formations, conflicts and contradictions, and political and cultural struggles in contemporary Kenya. The politics associated with land is central to the complex thematic pattern of Petals of Blood. Ngugi shows how the imperial colonists alienated Africans from their land and later how African landlords occupied Oray’s Publications Impact Factor: 4.845(SJIF) Research Journal Of English (RJOE) Vol-5, Issue-1, 2020 www.rjoe.org.in An International Peer-Reviewed English Journal ISSN: 2456-2696 Indexed in: International Citation Indexing (ICI), International Scientific Indexing (ISI), Directory of Research Journal Indexing (DRJI) Google Scholar & Cosmos. __________________________________________________________________________________ Research Journal Of English (RJOE) Copyright Oray’s Publication Page 2 the same and exploited the poor.","PeriodicalId":447932,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal Of English","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127575471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"TEACHING EFL READING TO THE TERTIARY LEVEL STUDENTS: STUDENTS’ READING EXPECTATIONS IN THE EFL CLASSROOM","authors":"F. Islam","doi":"10.36993/rjoe.2019.113125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36993/rjoe.2019.113125","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the current paper is to find out the expectations of the tertiary level students of Bangladesh regarding EFL reading class and to what extent the expectations are met. To serve the purpose both qualitative and quantitative methods were used. The qualitative data, comprised with a questionnaire tries to locate the expectations of the first year students of the university on different perspectives. The analysis revels, the appropriate selection of texts, application of suitable reading strategies, and teachers’ adaptation of the new way to behave within the class are the most significant challenges to meet for higher academic achievement. The qualitative method is used as a form of focused group discussion to determine what facts seem important to the undergrads. Thematic analysis revels, students perceive two facts as stand points like the well maintenance of the classroom environment and appreciation of the learners’ autonomy within the classroom settings which help to promote the whole EFL reading process. The running records of the current study could be proved beneficial for the teachers along with the authority of the university to carry out the undergrads’ EFL reading expectations in the university life.","PeriodicalId":447932,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal Of English","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117291053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}