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Teaching Portfolio

The Teaching Portfolio Definition, Purposes, and Form The Teaching Portfolio is best thought of as a documented statement of a faculty member's teaching responsibilities, philosophy, goals and accomplishments as a teacher. It is a flexible document, and can be used in a number of ways, depending upon the needs and interests of the faculty member. It can be an extensive collection of information, or something much more compact and limited. Below, the basic structure of a teaching portfolio, one that can be adjusted to suit the needs of any department or faculty member, is presented. Basic Teaching Portfolio There are three major parts in the basic portfolio:  1. Teaching responsibilities What I did. This section is typically a list with a bri...
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the aims and objectives of teaching English

What are the aims and objectives of teaching English? Nowadays English has a special and predominant role in the communicative sphere of the world. It has also a special identity in the field of education. A language is a medium of communication and interacting verbally in our day-to day life situation in family and society. But in India English is a foreign language. It is different from mother tongue. The teaching of English is highly desirable for a English teacher. Before starting his teaching, it requires for the teacher to fix up his aims and objectives. It makes him efficient. Objectives Teaching English: (A) The objective of teaching English has two main aspects: (i) Language aspect: Words, sentences, pronunciation, spelling and grammar. (ii) Literature aspect: Words, sentences, expressing ideas, feelings and experiences. (B) The English language teaching has four objectives to develop four skills: (i) Reading, (ii) Writing, (iii) Speaking and (iv) Listeni...
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Eclectic approach

Eclectic approach  is a method of  language education  that combines various approaches and methodologies to teach language depending on the aims of the lesson and the abilities of the learners. [1]  Different teaching methods are borrowed and adapted to suit the requirement of the learners. It breaks the monotony of the class. In addition, It is a conceptual approach that does not merely include one paradigm or a set of assumptions. Instead, eclecticism adheres to or is constituted from several theories, styles, and ideas in order to gain a thorough insight about the subject, and draws upon different theories in different cases. [2]  ‘Eclecticism’ is common in many fields of study such as psychology, martial arts, philosophy, religion and drama  [3] There are varied approaches and methods used for language teaching. In eclectic approach, the teacher can choose from these different methods and approaches: Grammar-translation Method :  It is a meth...
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current trends in modern english literature in India

  The 21 st  century has proved to the world that English literature is no longer the sole province of the imperial England. Although English literature started and flourished in England, it has gone on to sow the seeds of creativity in English in other parts of the world. Interestingly, the English people themselves paved the way for the unexpected developments that we witness today. When the English colonizers went to America, they began to write their own literature of the Americas. Similarly, those English men and women who went to Australia began the process of a new literature called Australian literature. And so is the case with Canada, India, and Africa. With colonization in some parts of the world, especially, Africa and Asia, there emerged a new literature which later came to be known as the Commonwealth literature, New Literature in English, postcolonial literature and so on. Not to be left out, even those countries which were not colonized by the English like Bhu...
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