English Language Teaching Institute
of Symbiosis (ELTIS) &
Symbiosis Institute of Foreign and
Indian Languages (SIFIL)
10th National Conference
on
“A 360° View of Language Teaching
Materials: Development, Utilization and Evaluation”
Day 1 – 7th
February 2020
Inaugural Function
The
conference was inaugurated by Shirish Sahasrabudhe( Head,ELTIS) , Ms.Maria Smarski and Dr.
G. Suvarna Lakshmi.
The Chief
Guest of this gathering was Ms.Maria Smarski (Regional English Language Officer (RELO) for India,
American Embassy, New Delhi).She started her discourse by sharing her
experience as how she entered this field of English language instructing. In
1982 she did her first gathering where she met Braj.B.Kachru
and his significant other. He affected her a great deal. This was
captivating for me to know, as I read a great deal about him in English
Language Teaching books when I instruct. One of her companion revealed to her that
“If there is no ideas then I should
retire’’, it is so insightful and furthermore startling. Imagine a scenario
in which we truly have no thoughts left, how life would be. Ma'am recommended
that it is important to recognize what instructors need and what to make as far
as creating learning material.
The Keynote
Speaker of this inaugural function was Dr. G.
Suvarna Lakshmi (Associate Professor, Dept.
of ELT, SDE, EFL University, and Hyderabad). By giving a case of driving
Ma'am began her discussion about the subject of the gathering. Educator is
significant when we talk about the way toward creating material. Additionally a
few inquiries ought to be remembered like who is the objective gathering for
whom the material needs to arranged, are we giving a similar thing as they need
or need, is the educator adaptable, are we utilizing ICT as a strategy or
material… and so on.
Symposium:
Topic:
Appropriate Language Teaching Materials: Creating,
selecting and reviewing them.
Chairperson: Prof. Meera Srinivas, Department of Materials Development Testing and
Evaluation, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.
Meera Ma'am
discussed the suitability of the material structured by age, intellectual
development, development and need.
The Primary
speaker for this session was Dr. Bhaskaran Nair Sir,
Professor of English from Hindustan University,
Padur, Chennai (formerly of Pondicherry Central University) and President ELTIF
(English Language Teachers’ Interaction Forum). Bhaskaran Sir has
understanding of educating to various understudies like senior ladies and
detainees who were in prison accountable for a few killings. So encouraging
material is freak instead of the standard educators. Sir talked about that by
making B.Ed. Program doesn't mean it creates great instructors. All the
techniques are talked about in the course, educators are additionally mindful
of the approach, yet not about the utilization of the strategy. It is important
to improve sources accessible to educator yet additionally instructors need to
make mindful of it.
The Second Speaker for the session was Dr.Rama Mathew (ELT
Consultant, former Professor, Department of Education, Delhi University).
Rama Ma'am discussed material improvement and how to survey the material. She
recommended two different ways of taking a gander at material; a large scale
see and a pre-see. Learning implies cooperation between Learner's speculation
and Input (Material).Teachers on going judgment on what worked, what didn’t
,when and why based on evidence. Retrospective evaluation of materials opposed
to predictive evaluation needs to be employed. Learner should be given the
power of decision. Prescribed texts are taken so seriously that we kill the imagination.
The Third Speaker of the session was Dr.
Hitesh D. Raviya (Professor and Head,
Department of English, The M.S. University of Baroda, Gujarat). Sir
started with what does appropriate material means? We as a whole learn in twentieth
Century and we educate in 21st Century. Sir likewise shared his task work
tested in Kutch district, where the understudies were given the territorial
poems converted into English for Language Teaching/Learning. As that
territorial poems and the way of life will cause them to become familiar with
the language effectively. It was likewise for distinguishing issue like
learning the language and afterward corresponding the way of life. For example
teaching the poem like “Rain Rain Go away…’’, now this poem is misfit for
Indian Students as in India. As in India we celebrate rain, so how can students
understand the cultural concept and grasp the language. We as teachers are in a
transition period and it is difficult to fight with imposition, creative,
collaborative, choice with material. Teaching has to be redefined.
Plenary Session I: Workshop
Topic: “Scaffolding Activities for Best Results”
Resource Person: Ms. Maria Snarski (Regional English Language Officer (RELO) for India,
American Embassy, New Delhi.)
Ma'am
examined Bloom's scientific categorization and dependent on it presented
numerous Monday inspiration exercises; plans for tired instructors. Action is a
help to the following thing you do. The goal of the action relies upon SWBAT
(Students will have the option to). It is important to perceive how as an
educator we are utilizing that exercises in the study hall as opposed to given
in the book.
Plenary Session II
Topic: “Cognitive Approaches to Materials Development”
Presenter: Dr. Vishal Bhadani (Writer, Translator and Educator, Rajkot, Gujarat)
Chairperson: Dr. Z. N. Patil (Former Professor and Chairperson, Centre for Training and
Development EFLU, Hyderabad.)
Sir started
with the technical understanding of Neurology. Whatever we do, think is
according to one's brain. Methods of hacking the human brain is not new.
Starting from Myths to Technology, all does the same thing of conditioning a
human mind. For example Amazon is conditioning the Compulsive Shopping Disorder
in humans. Sir further discussed some measurements using which material can be
generated in Neuro lab. MMN 100( Mismatch Negativity)Ability to recognize
speech soundsN170 Expertise... Hearing and SeeingN400 Understanding (Linguistic
Meaning)P600 Understanding Structure. It is necessary to think about this new
aspect of including Neuron Science in generating material for Language Learning
/Teaching. “If the academic ardent wouldn’t wake up, the corporates are going
to take up” with this thoughtful remark the session ended. It was indeed a very
interesting session. I never thought of with the help of science language
material can be generated.
Parallel Workshop I: A
Topic:
“Why Should Kids Have All The Fun?”
Presenter: Prof. Gitanjali Madhurasekaran (Assistant Professor of English, Department of English,
Anna University, Chennai)
Chairperson: Ms. Mala Hinduja (Visiting Faculty, ELTIS)
As the title
suggest the session was full of fun and activities. Everyone was divided
into pairs and a picture was given. First all of them have to describe the
picture to another pair and then they have to find out the other part of the
picture. Then all the pictures have to be arranged in a line to find out the
theme of the picture. The Pictures had the theme of Zoom in. A Hungarian
Illustrator - Istvan Banyai had designed this series of Zoom in. Many other
activities were conducted in this session. Attention is guaranteed if learning
is fun.
Special Session for Students
Topic:
“Do's and Don'ts of Selection and Usage of Teaching
Materials”
Presenter: Prof. Meera Srinivas (Department
of Materials Development Testing and Evaluation, The English and Foreign
Languages University, Hyderabad)
Chairperson: Dr. Dharmendra Sheth (Founder & President, Fluentlingua, Surat, Gujarat)
Ma'am
highlighted many questions like What are teaching materials, What is the
criteria for selection and use, Why it is needed? Objectives, Need of the
learner, Accessibility in terms of age, maturity, proficiency and cognition,
Learning by doing, Adaptable and flexible and Evaluation are very necessary to
see while selecting the teaching material. Supplement the learning experience
by digital resource, so use judicially.
Panel Discussion (Plenary):
Topic:
Effective teaching tools to empower Engineering
students to be professional communicators
Chairperson: Dr. Dharmendra Sheth (Founder & President, Fluentlingua, Surat, Gujarat)
Panelists:
1. Dr. Atul Patil,
Assistant Professor of Communication Skills,
College of Engineering, (COEP), Pune
2. Dr. Neha
Divekar, Assistant Professor (English and
Communication Skills) Symbiosis Institute of Technology (SIT), Pune
3. Ms. Sujata Biyani,
Vice Principal, Sou. Venutai Chavan Polytechnic,
Pune
Dr.Autl
Patil like a magician he
came and won everyone's heart. I always heard that a teacher is a magician but
saw for the first time. The most illustrative session. Soft Skills can make or
break a manager. Only 7% graduates are employable as they lack in soft skills
like Communication in English and Computer. With some interesting examples and
illustration, many issues related to soft skill were discussed.
Dr.Neha
Divekar talked about Employability
and Entrepreneurship: how do they use the tools for awareness other than studying?
Attention span has to be increased and maintained. She proposed a wide range of
things like Case Studies, Project based learning and TEDclub and so forth.
Mrs.Sujata
Biyani spoken about
students of polytechnic institute who are underage. It is pitiable to see
school children not acquainted with speaking. Emphasized on situational
teaching, soft skills, and Interview, Mini and Micro projects.
Paper Presentation 1:
In this
session I (Vaidehi Hariyani) and my student Kavisha Alagiya got wonderful
chance to present our paper.
The Topic of
my paper was on “From downloaders to uploaders: A
new innovative and emerging trend of creating teaching learning material
through ICT tools.” The paper focused on the Use of ICT in generating
teaching material and its effects on learning. With the help of the case
studies done by Dr.Dilip Barad Sir on our Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English,
MKBU the paper was further analyzed. Dr.Dilip Barad Sir has motivated all of us
teachers and students to become downloaders to Uploaders.
Kavisha
Alagiya presented her paper on “The Effects of ICT
in learning English language and literature.” As a teacher it was a
mixed feeling to see your student presenting her first paper at National
Conference. Very confidently she presented her views and also answered the
questions.
We are
appreciative to Vishal Bhadani Sir, Hitesh Ravaiya Sir, Dharmendra
Seth Sir and Dr.Z.N.Patil Sir for
some productive conversation on our paper. Much obliged to you for propelling
us.
We are also thankful to Dr. Mrinal Dhongde, Chairperson of our Paper Presentation. Thank you for appreciating our efforts.
There was
one more presentation in this session by Ms. Poonam
was on “Twitter as an effective teaching
learning tool in ESL and EFL Classrooms”
It was also
quite interesting!
The day 1
ended with fun games, interaction and delicious dinner.
Day 2 : 8th February 2020
Plenary Session III:
Topic:
Materials, methods and evaluation: just a personal
view
Presenter: Dr. Rama Mathew, ELT Consultant, former Professor, University of Delhi
Chairperson: Dr. Shridhar Gokhale, former HoD of English, S.P. Pune University
Materials
having methodology is intrinsically, but not always. Usability depends on
learners. OER; Open Educational Resources is accessible and available in
plenty. Material works as support and teacher is in the role of implementation.
In this case role of a learner and feedback becomes very important. Discussed
about the project on Children’s Choice and Voice. The Focus is now Learner
Centric.
Plenary Session IV:
Topic: Re/Visiting the Use of
ICT in Traditional Indian Classroom
Presenter: Dr. Hitesh D. Raviya, Professor and Head, Department of English, The M.S.
University of Baroda, Gujarat
Chairperson: Dr. Shilpagauri Ganpule, Associate Professor and Coordinator, Research Center for
MPhil and PhD in English, Prof. Ramakrishna More College, Akurdi, Pune.
Sir talked
about two India. The one is developed and the other is not developed. The
definition of teaching has changed and role of teacher as well. Presently there
are such a significant number of learning stages accessible like EGPathshala,
Swayam Portal and numerous MOOCs. Students won't require instructor in not so
distant future. May be we can say the job of instructor will change. Learners
won’t need teacher in near future. May be we can say the role of teacher will
change. This is the transition period of teaching methods and the teacher are
changing. The higher education is becoming borderless.
Paper Presentation:
The theme of
this session was using limited resources innovatively for effective language acquisition
and Materials for different age groups to make teaching-learning a fun experience
1.)Dr. P. Bhaskaran Nair
The topic of
Sir’s presentation was “Teacher competence vs. the use, misuse and non-use of materials”.
Sir gave an interesting activity to find out pronunciation of certain words
from online dictionary. Teachers also need to learn and start learning before
teaching. Sitting in an AC classroom with a laptop and write about marginalized
easy, rather than practically visit that place. Thoughts are now been
downloaded rather than getting it naturally. That was so thoughtful. Language
should be taught for self-empowerment and for the upliftment of the
downtrodden. Employability is a part of
that.
2.)Dr.Rama Gautam
Discussed
about Blended Learning and Flipped Learning. She very well explained the use of
blended learning and flipped learning as a teacher.
3.) Mr.M. Jawahar
The topic of
the paper presentation was Materials for vowel teaching at primary level through emoticons. How emoticons
help in generating language learning material. It may help at the primary level
for language generation.
4.) Mr. D. Densingh Daniel
The topic of
the paper presentation was Teaching materials: visual literacy, memefication
and evaluation. Memefication and how it tends to be utilized in educating.
Featured thoughts regarding Multimodal v/s Monomodal.
Very interesting presentation!
Parallel Workshop III: B
Topic:
Grammar: “Fun and Learn”
Presenters: 1. Ms.
Apoorva Apte, Full-time Faculty &
Co-ordinator, ELTIS
2. Ms. Surashree Joshi, Visiting
Faculty, ELTIS
Chairperson: Dr. Vaishali Jundre, Dy. Director, ELTIS-SIFIL
Discussed
activities which can be included in teaching Grammar and language. Demonstrated
and also included all the members in various exercises in gathering. The names
of the exercises just as the exercises were very one of a kind like Who's the
criminal?, What happened when?, Assorted Cookies!
Plenary Session V: Workshop
Topic:
Media Literacy in the English Language Classroom
Presenter: Mr. Nicholas Reishus, English Language Fellow, K. J. Somaiya Group of
Institutions, Mumbai
Chairperson: Dr. Madhuri Gokhale, Associate Professor, Fergusson College a Research Guide.
Discussed about the 21st century approach to
education. 5 key questions were highlighted about questioning the media literacy in this post-truth
era. Who created the message? What creative techniques are being used to
attract my attention? How might different people understand this message
differently than me? What values, lifestyles and point of view are represented
in or omitted from the message. Why this message is being sent?
Panel Discussion: The Overview of the
Conference
Panelists:
1. Prof. Dr. T. Vijay Kumar, former
Professor of English and Dean, Faculty of Arts, Osmania University, Hyderabad
2. Dr. G. Suvarna Lakshmi, Associate
Professor, Dept. of ELT, SDE, EFL University, Hyderabad
3. Dr. J. John Sekar, Head
& Associate Professor, Research Department of English Dean, Academic
Policies & Administration, The American College,Madurai
Chairperson: Dr. Madhuri Gokhale, Associate Professor, Fergusson College and Member,
Advisory Board, ELTIS
Dr.
J. John Sekar was the
first speaker for this session. In a very funny manner he highlighted some very
serious questions that need to think of. Teachers are responsible for whatever
material they use in the classroom. One should be always careful of 3 T.
1.)Teacher 2.) Technology 3.)Textbook. Learner’s autonomy should be targeted.
Any material can be used but it should teach communication skills. Otherwise in
speech there will be “Verbal Diarrhea”. There are many teachers who teach
literature but very few who teach language.
Dr.G.Suvarna
Lakshmi was the Second
Speaker of the session who started with a question. What would be teacher’s
role if technology overtakes? A teacher’s role will remain a teacher’s role,
but the function will ke
Dr.T.Vijaykumar, the third speaker of the session discussed
problem regarding Indian Context. If students are not getting employability is
not only because of English. All the problems are connected to the English
language. At the end language is a language. We assume too much about this
language. ELT in India is a disaster. It is necessary to ask why we need it. We
should see language as a object. He also questioned this concept of English as Second
language because in India it simultaneously studied with other languages.
Valedictory session
Publication
of selected papers from the 9th NC were released at the hands of Prof. Dr. T. Vijay Kumar, Professor
of English and former Dean, Faculty of Arts, Osmania University, Hyderabad and
also distribution of Best Paper Awards was done by him. Concluding remarks & Vote of thanks were
given by Prof. Shirish Sahasrabudhe (Director: ELTIS-SIFIL)
My Sincere gratitude
towards ELTIS- SIFIL and the entire team. It was worth attending National
conference. Looking forward to 5th and 6th February 2021!
PC: Kavisha
Alagiya, ELTIS Team
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