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PUNE RESEARCH 

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454-3454-ONLINE )

VOLUME 1 , ISSUE - 1   ( July - Aug 2015 )

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DR. J. S. CHEREKAR

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DR. S. A. KHADER

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English Language Teaching has been in sharp focus as never before since globalization owing to the huge demand of personnel with good communicative skills in English. Sadly the demand has been widened as candidates with good English language skills are in short supply though the number of eligible applicants is far too many. This peculiar situation diverted the attention of the Companies, Industries and other employers towards on-campus recruitments from qualitative and standard educational institutions in the country. This has in turn signaled a new beginning in English Language Teaching from purely academic orientation to communicative oriented English Language Teaching. It is at this juncture the Communicative Language Teaching has acquired more importance and set English Language Teaching for a paradigm shift.

When, in fact, many methods and approaches including the mode of Audio-Lingual Teaching being in practice for significantly considerable time was no longer felt to reflect a methodology appropriate for the seventies and beyond CLT made its entry into English Language Teaching arena with its more humanistic approach to teaching with a premium on interactive processes of communication. CLT received the sanction and approval of applied linguists, language specialists, language teaching circles, publishers and the educational institutions for its democratic approach wherein students find freedom to interact and learn. One of the important characteristics of this communicative view of language being that the primary function of language is for interaction and communication. Interactive process in Communicative Language Teaching plays a vital role in enabling the learners become communicative competent through wide and varied interactions. The primary focus of this Paper will be on the role of interactions in CLT and it also makes a modest attempt to study this aspect in all earnestness.

Keywords: Globalization, communicative skills, paradigm shift, interactions

Dr. TALLURI MATHEW BHASKAR

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Karnad has penned his plays in Kannada translated them into English. His play Bali: The Sacrifice (2004) is English translation of his play Hittina Hunja (1980). The play is based on the myth of ‘Cock of Dough’, which he came to know during his teenage. It deals with the theme of violence versus non-violence and Brahminism versus Jainism. The play is considered as a tribute to Mahatama Gandhi, the father of our Indian nation. The act of sacrificing animals and birds is an age-old tradition in Brahminism. They offer animals and birds to please and propitiate gods and goddesses. Buddhism and Jainism condemn violence in any form. The playwright takes up the issue of non-violence in a unique but controversial way.

 KEYWORDS: Brahminism, Jainism, Sacrifice, Non-violence, Cock of Dough

UHEEDAH SHAH

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Feminist literary theories are the collective conversations- often contradictory, sometimes even heated-of feminist readers concerning the meaning and practice of reading, the intersections of subject formations such as race, class, sexuality, and gender, and the work of literature. What does the feminist critic mean when she says “women”? Biologically female persons? Individuals who have been socialized as “feminine”? does that socialization vary when we understand women as always already raced, classed, and sexualized, and by contradictory processes, which introduce differences within every construct of identity, so that there is no singular women reader, or singular black woman reader, or singular white woman reader, or singular lesbian reader? Does the invocation of “women” announce simply that the category of gender is at work, conceptualized in an “intersectional” model that focuses on the interlocking (not parallel) constructions of race, gender, class, and sexuality, in an encounter in which each term is determined and determining? Or perhaps “women” signifies sexual differences as it is figured by psychoanalysis or the critique of phallocentrism which aligns feminity with the divided subject and invokes it to herald the ruin of any concept of identity or identity-based reading. The last possibility raises the question of whether the practice of a “feminine” reading that abandons the myths of identity can be restricted to readers who are gendered as women in their social roles.

SANTOSH ABHIMANYU KADAM

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The magic realist writers always refer to history as a magic realist element in their magic realist writings. The magic realist critic, Maggie Ann Bowers, in her book Magic(al) Realism (2007) expresses, “Historical references appear in magical realist writing may seem to indicate that magical realists have not forgotten how to think historically” (76). The magic realist novelist uses the historical references to raise a question about the real history. The critic, Bowers further says, “As we have seen, many magical realist works include historical references, not only to situate their texts in a particular context, but also to bring into question already existing historical assumptions” (76-77).

DR. AFSHA JAMAL

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Teaching is considered the active skill while learning the passive skill. When children do not acquire a second language in the expected time, it is assumed that there is something wrong with the educational programme they are being exposed to. In the process of language learning it is observed that there are some students who show tremendous progress on acquiring the new language. Similarly, even on the best programmes there are some students who show little progress. Learning strategies are special ways of processing information that enhance comprehension and learning. 

Dr. M. S. DADAGE

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The key role of the principal is to provide leadership, direction and co-ordination within the college.  His main focus should be to develop and maintain effective educational programmes and to promote the improvement of teaching and learning.  He should strive to create an organization and climate which fosters students and teachers growth. He is both academic and administrative head of the college.

SHREEKANT REDDY

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Jhumpa Lahiri, the youngest of diasporic hierarchy stands prominent as an artist who was named as “One of the 20 best writers under the age of 40,” By “The New Yorker.” She made a precocious debut with her Interpreter of Maladies and bagged the prestigious Pultizer award. Her recognition at international canvas may be ascribed to her masterly imaginative perception. Expatriate writing born out of the dialectics between displacement and relocation, belonging and alienation raises quite a few theoretical formulations which provide fresh perspective to creative works. Against the backdrop of this, Lahiri’s stories carry rich details of women, their cultural values and customs. They occupy a space in between cultures, they constantly move between Indian and the U.S.A. Apart from being traumatized refugees, her female figures also come out as firm figures who negotiate a path in a country that seems to provide immense opportunities.

DR. R. BATHRI DEVANATH

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In 1960s, Chomsky introduced an idea related directly to the evaluation of theories of grammar. For Chomsky, explanatory adequacy is the grammar, which makes prediction about how linguistic knowledge is mentally acquired and represented. The nature of such mental representations is largely innate, so explanatory adequacy explains the various grammatical nuances of the languages of the world in relation to the minor variations in the universal grammar of human language. This paper focuses on the application of these approaches in language teaching which implied on the process of second language acquisition. 

TALLURI ARUNA KUMAR

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Anand’s Coolie is a unique and original in many ways. It has been called a great epic of misery. It is twice as long as the Untouchable. The novelist depicts a series of painful adventures of Munoo, an orphan village boy from the Kangra hills. Munoo, the protagonist of the novel, is exploited always. One way or the other way, by one person or another, he is exploited. He is an orphan boy hardly fifteen years old. He is ill-treated by his uncle, Daya Ram and aunt Gujri. He is taken to the town of Sham Nagar and employed as a servant by Babu Nathoo Ram. He moves from home to towns and cities, to Bombay and Simla sweating as a servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. His plight resembles the grim fate of the masses of India. After a series of events, he got weaker and caught T.B. In a pathetic situation, Munoo died in Simla. The novel is remarkable for its humanism. The rich and the privileged have little or no consideration for the underdog he is a discarded victim of the social system. Like Bakha, he accepts the inevitability of his fate. Tired of struggle for existence and poverty, he is terribly afflicted with T.B. he dies at the age of sixteen. The novelist presents the theme of exploitation of the underprivileged in depth in Coolie.

KEYWORDS: Exploitation, Coolie, Underdog, Misery, Dickensian realism.

KAMEL HEZAM ALI MOQBEL

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The present paper deals with the feminine domination over man which is one of the main themes discussed in D. H. Lawrence’s fiction, particularly in his Sons and Love. It shows the tools of female domination and its destructive impact on male characters. The present paper is composed of three sections. The first section briefly introduces D. H. Lawrence’s definition and concept of female domination. The second section attempts to analyze the nature of female domination in Sons and Lovers, its tools and its problematic consequences such as male humiliation, depression, submissiveness and male inferiority and subordination to it. The third section deals with the symbols and images which are artistically employed by the novelist to enhance and cement his theme of female domination. The third section deals with the symbols and images which are artistically employed by the novelist to enhance and cement his theme of female domination. The paper ends with a concise conclusion that sums up what has been discussed in the body of the paper.

DIBAKAR PAL

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Creative writing does not inform rather reveals. So it bears no reference. The present article is an outcome of creative writing meant for lay readers. As such free style is the methodology adopted so that pleasure of reading can be enjoyed by the common mass. As you know well that Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the immortal essayist, wrote many essays namely Of Love, Of Friendship, Of Ambition, Of Studies, etc. The myriad-minded genius rightly pointed out that all the words of the dictionary can be the themes of essays one can write. But little has been done, in this regard since his death, in order to finish his unfinished monumental works. In fact Bacon's way of presentation i.e., his unique individual style kindled the imagination already in me and encouraged me as well to write essays, in the light of creative writing, thus to get relief through Catharsis.

DR. AJIT KUMAR

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Elena Martina, Born in Peru,  she moved to the United States after high school and obtained a psychology degree from Austin Peay State University in Tennessee and a nonprofit management certificate from Duke University in North Carolina. She wrote for several North Carolina newspapers and co-created the successful Spanish language publication Acento Latino. She then switched professions and worked for the U.S. Federal Government for several years. Her 2010 move to California allowed her to return to what she loves best, writing as a columnist and community reporter.

Her book Clinging to Deceit published in 2012 is a fictional novel about an arranged marriage, dowry, love, deceit and murder. Her second novel is fast approaching and it will be published soon. She currently lives in San Jose, California.

KAIKASI V S

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THE PERFECT HUMAN BEING

by KAIKASI V S Kerla India