Bala Chandran Vadivel

Ph.D.

English Language Teaching( ELT)

The purpose of this experimental research is to explore the way how the undergraduate College students can develop their listening skills through the Suggestopedia method, and how far it progresses their involvement in the classroom environment. The research was conducted (i) To find out the significant difference between the effectiveness of the Suggestopedia approach and the traditional method of teaching in developing listening skills in English among the college level students (ii) To find out the significant difference between the effectiveness of the Suggestopedia approach and the traditional method of teaching in developing listening skills in English among college students with reference to their gender.

M.A.

English Literature

The MA in English Literature studies really made me to pursue interests in different periods of English literature while specializing in the field which intrigues me the most. The modules cover literature and language from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. I would say, On this course, I deepened my existing knowledge, discover new fields, and acquire the skills to enable independent research at an advanced level.

B.Ed.

English

After pursuing this course I am able To systematize experiences and strengthen the professional competency of in-service teachers. To imbibe the knowledge and develop an understanding of various methods and approaches of organizing learning experiences of secondary school students. To develop skills required in selection and organizing learning experiences. To understand the nature of the learner and of learning processes. To develop skills involved in dealing with the academic and personal problems of learners. To acquire knowledge and develop an understanding of the various procedures and techniques of evaluation and their classroom application.

B.A.

English Literature

The BA in English Literature degree course covers lessons on almost all the best-known and best-loved writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Swift, Milton, Jane Austen, Dickens, and the list is countless. The BA English Literature syllabus and subjects cover many writings from the middle ages to the 21st century. The degree course consists of chapters that progress chronologically through the periods of English Literature and writings.

Assistant Professor

Preparing and delivering lectures to undergraduate students on subjects such as Poetry, General English-I, General English- II, and Academic English. Planning and revising the curriculum, course content, and course materials. Preparing course materials such as syllabi, assignments, and handouts. Maintaining student attendance records, grades, and other required records. Adapting teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs, abilities, and interests. Guiding students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods such as discussions, and demonstrations. Attending professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.

Assistant Professor

Completed PhD. in English Language Teaching 10 years of Teaching Experience in Engineering Colleges. 2 years of Teaching Experience in Arts and Science College. Guided projects for M. Phil. Students. Rewarded for producing the best results. Participated in Refresher Course, Workshops, FDP, and Orientation Programs. Presented Papers in International Conferences and Seminars. Worked as a Coordinator for National Service Scheme. Class Coordinator, Discipline & Anti-ragging Committee member. Resource Person, Class Coordinator. Acted as Chief AUR / Examiner for University Examinations.

International Webinar on Suggestopedia - A Method of Teaching Engish

H.H.The Rajah's College. India

I served as a Resource Person in the International Webinar on Suggestopedia- A Method of Teaching Engish organized by Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) and PG and Research Department of English, H. H. The Rajah's College, India on 27th May 2021.

Effectiveness of the Suggestopedia in Developing Listening Skills among the Undergraduate students of Pudukkottai District

The purpose of this experimental research is to explore the way how the undergraduate College students can develop their listening skills through the Suggestopedia method, and how far it progresses their involvement in the classroom environment. The research was conducted (i) To find out the significant difference between the effectiveness of the Suggestopedia approach and the traditional method of teaching in developing listening skills in English among the college level students (ii) To find out the significant difference between the effectiveness of the Suggestopedia approach and the traditional method of teaching in developing listening skills in English among college students with reference to their gender. The findings of this research revealed that the learners may enhance their listening abilities in English if the Suggestopedia approach used by the investigator is adopted in the teaching-learning process. This approach will go a long way in facilitating them for improving the listening skills and in turn towards effective communication. It suits more for learners, due to its inherent challenging tasks, which are based on real-life situations.

Crash Course

Conducted a Crash Course for Undergraduate Engineering Students at Cihan University, Erbil - Kurdistan

Psychometric Assessment of the Persian Translation of the Interpersonal Mindfulness Scale With Undergraduate Students

Interpersonal mindfulness is a construct that significantly contributes to social interaction. To date, no validated measure assessing interpersonal mindfulness has been developed in Iran. Therefore, the aim of this study was to translate and validate the Interpersonal Mindfulness Scale (IMS) among Iranian undergraduate students. Participants in the study (370 undergraduate students; 220 females) from the Azad University completed the translated IMS, the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, and the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems Scale. The translated measure demonstrated acceptable face validity. All items had acceptable content validity and were deemed essential to the scale. The results of a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) confirmed a scale with four subscales (presence, awareness of self and others, non-judgmental acceptance, and non-reactivity), with acceptable internal consistency. The findings support the psychometric properties of the Persian translated Interpersonal Mindfulness Scale, which could be used to measure interpersonal mindfulness among undergraduate students in Iran

Progress in English Language Teaching Through Continuous Professional Development—Teachers’ Self-Awareness, Perception, and Feedback

This research aimed to investigate the various aspects of EFL teachers’ professional development through Continuous Professional Development (CPD). Hence a study involving 83 EFL teachers from different socio-economic, multi-cultural, educational, and disciplinary backgrounds was conducted to ascertain their attitudes, perceptions, and feedback on CPD. The sample population was random, and the data collection was through a questionnaire. The results showed that teachers take charge of their CPD, but for better outcomes, they need professional development through shared experience, reflective teaching, and have a sense of community among them to stay at par with the global standards of the education system. Through this research, the concept of CPD and its significance in teaching English are made available. This study also proposes higher achievement in education through teacher professional development programs. Moreover, the analysis demonstrated that teachers are confident in what they do because of their positive belief in their own CPD. From the results, it was clear that every EFL teacher should take charge of their professional development to become better teachers and help students achieve their goals

Using Games to Promote EFL Learners’ Willingness to Communicate (WTC): Potential Effects and Teachers’ Attitude in Focus

This study aims to find out the role of games in promoting students’ willingness to communicate (WTC) and their teachers’ attitude toward it. In order to collect the data, the researchers employed a 28-item questionnaire which was given to 60 English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners in an English institute. Then, the students were randomly divided into two groups of 30 learners functioning as control and experimental groups. The students in the experimental group received games in their language lessons and classes whereas control group learners did not. At the end of the term, the same questionnaire was given to the students to know if playing games had a significant impact on their WTC. Besides, the teachers were asked to answer a 30-item questionnaire to investigate their attitudes toward playing games in language classes. The results showed that games played a significant role in improving the EFL leaners’ willingness to communicate. Moreover, most of the teachers in this study believed that games have a positive influence on the students’ attitudes towards learning English and that using them in class serves many educational purposes. In the light of these findings, the researchers suggested using games as energizers and practical activities at the end of class not only to improve enthusiasm for learning, but also to improve the learners’ WTC.

Using Music for Developing Language Skills in the English Language Classroom

From the birth of humanity to religion and science, music has been an integral part of the existence of mankind. Music, whether natural or man-made, has undeniable impacts on the psyche and the overall wellbeing of an individual. It is only natural that in the field of learning too, music can have an impeccable influence. In almost every sphere of life, we can feel the presence and importance of music. Language, like music, is a mirror of culture and society. It evolves with time while capturing diverse aspects of cultures and civilisations. Since speech functions and music functions depend on each other, it becomes fairly obvious, that music impacts neural pathways in the human brain, thus influencing human’s ability to communicate. Music and language are vibrational in nature. Musical hearing is essential for acquiring, processing and producing language. Several independent language learners pick up language items from songs. A lot of essential skills can also be developed among learners. Students with certain learning disabilities can enormously benefit from learning through music. This article will cover each of these areas and will explore practical ideas and approaches of implementing music to teach language. A sample lesson plan, comprising stages and tasks, is analysed, along with a list of suggested songs for different language structures. On the whole, this article aims to capture the importance of music in human life and its prominence in language acquisition.

Online teaching: Insufficient application of technology

Technology, in the year 2020, has attained its utmost use by becoming the solution for people across the world in all sectors. Despite the use of applications like Zoom, Google Meet, Kahoot, and Google Classroom, teaching language online has proved to be a challenging task without the presence of a live teacher. This paper aims to throw light on the technological gap and its pace that has not matched the necessity of the period. The analysis of an example from the English Language Teaching will not show what technology lacks in this field, but also serve as a guidance for the developers of future artificially intelligent software and applications. As teaching and computing are two different fields, it is the researchers’ duty to bridge the gap by meticulously explaining the limitations in the currently existing applications and the necessary features in the yet to be developed ones. Keywords Insufficient technologyELTApplicationsBridgeOnline teachingArtificial Intelligence

English Language Significance from Ancient to the Modern- A Cram

Abstract—It is well known fact that a living language cannot be static. Every language that is used daily by the speech community changes every day. Despite of the fact, that the speech community of English language enlarges daily yet no one seems to be interested to know much about the historical development of the English language. This paper is meant to reveal about the historical background of the English language. English language that we use today passed hundreds years of developing processes and changed a lot. All social and political events that affected the English nation more or less profoundly had a notable effect on the language. Keywords— English Language;Community change; historical background; social and political effects.Introduction

Developing Listening and Vocabulary Skills of Undergraduate Students through English Movies with the Standard Subtitles - A Study

Abstract—Listening is the significant feature for all the language communication. Listening skills require more intelligence than speaking. Standard subtitles play a major role in developing listening skills and vocabulary of non- native undergraduate students. Every year the number of English learners increases and the language learning techniques and methods are the most debatable issue ever. With the rapid development of innovative technologies, more and more mechanical aids are involved in the language learning process. More importantly, all the mechanical aids, techniques and methods are meant to develop the learners` listening skills. This paper explains the fact that how the second language learners can improve their listening skills and vocabulary of the English language by watching the English movies with standard subtitles Keywords— Innovative, learning techniques, listening skills, pronunciation, technologies, vocabulary.

The Impact of Multimedia in English Language Classroom of Undergraduate Students in Engineering Colleges

The English language has been ruling the world in almost all sectors for nearly quite some times. India is a developing country and English is considered as the second language and it is also very alarming fact that the students have been learning English for the very beginning of their schools, but they are still not very good at it. To find out what the problem could be, it is very important to know what methods the English teachers have been using and does it actually work or how to improve the English classes even better to improve the real life communication skills of students. The study will be focused mainly on the association between the multimedia and the English language teaching in the classroom of undergraduate students of Engineering colleges and how effective it is in case of learning English for real life purposes. The focus of the paper will be how dynamic and effective English language classes could be by using multimedia and will it have any influence on the student’s real life communication and performance.

SUGGESTOPEDIA – AN APPROACH IN LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE

Suggestopedia, one of the most inexplicable “humanistic approaches” was created by the Bulgarian teacher Georgi Lozanov in 1970. It is based on the thought that individuals, as they get older, inhibit their learning to comply with the social standards and in arranging to reactivate the capabilities they used as children, instructors got to utilize the control of recommendation. The suggestopedia approach is said to increase hugely the capacity of students to memorize, to keep in mind, and to coordinate what they learn into their personality. This paper presents the groupings of a suggestopedia session, the part of the instructor and opposite focuses on seeing with respect to the utilize of the approach. The conclusion is that, in spite of a part of burdens, suggestopedia has components that can be used effectively with all sorts of learners, a few of these components being utilized by the teachers from various colleges and schools.

Strategies for Developing Listening Skills of Adult Students through Technological aids: A Cram

As Technological aids innovation becomes more available to teachers and learners of other languages, its potential as a device to upgrade listening skills becomes a viable alternative. It permits integration of content, design, sound, and movement video in an extend of combinations. The result is that learners can presently interact with literary, aural, and visual media in a wide extend of formats. Consequently, when we presently see at the computer as potentially supporting listening skills acquisition, we require to examine not as it were aural processing opportunities, but technological aids, (synchronous locate, sound, content) preparing as well. This paper looks at technological aids processing and its implications for listening abilities advancement in a foreign or second language and also how it relates to listening skills improvement can be supported to the adult students.

Importance of Teaching Listening skills in English Language Classroom - A Study

Language is an extraordinary gift of God to man. Language only makes the man fully human. Man, in the words of Aristotle, is a rational animal. Man has attained this rationality because he has the ability to reason, and this reasoning capacity in the bountiful benefit of the language. Language is a resort to man’s aesthetic senses as he recites beautiful poems which engages his fellow humans in their leisure time and of course, academically also it is utilized. Spread of religions and religious harmony depends entirely on the language as all scriptures are put in language only. This paper focuses the method of teaching listening skills in English language classroom.