Task on ELT 1, unit no 3 Methods of English Language Teaching.

• Task on ELT 1, unit no 3 Methods of English Language Teaching.

Hello, Readers here I am going to share about my views upon the  Task - ELT :-1 (unit 3) Methods of English language Teaching which was given by Vaidehi ma'am.so here is ma'am's blog link ;

 https://vaidehi09.blogspot.com/2019/08/methods-of-english-language-teaching.html

Difference between approach and method:-
- If I want to say briefly about approach so that It's refers to the way a teacher considers content while deciding how to teach it. While into the method refers to the way a teacher ultimately decides to teach it. for example, as a lecture, an activity, a discussion, etc. You can think of approach as a more general term that encompasses planning and consideration and method as the specific way something is taught.

- Here is a difference between approach and method is that An approach is a way of dealing with something or somebody and A method is the process which used or the steps taken to deal with an issue or a person.
- Approach is the way in which you will approach the piece of literature you are teaching. You may center on the diction, or the theme, or the structure, or the romantic (or modern, etc.) nature of the piece; whatever you choose to teach. Approach is what you are going to teach.
- Method refers to how you are going to teach it: lecture, small-group work, PowerPoint, worksheet, class discussion, etc.

-1.) Which method appealed you the most from the above given methods? Give Reasons.


Ans :- According to me, to see contemporary time, The Auto-Lingual method was more appeals. We are not interested in reading bulky books, novels, etc.we more like to see and listen. For Ex; Nowadays in our syllabus there are many book and novel which we also have seen movie screening. So, with the help of movie we understand much better about plot, character, particular age or scene. Our memory catch and remember more with visualization. One more thing that when we have visited THE ANKUR SCHOOL - a school for special child ; Their teachers said that they also using Audio -Video, Music to taught child. The students are grasp more with it.


2.) Tell something about your favorite method used by your teachers from School till PG. How is their method unique?

When I studied in school & collage time during I don't know about that type of methods which used by my teachers but When I studied in course of B.ed there are I learnt about those method's theory with practical way and until I am learning and used also. I can't say that only one method useful in class while I want to say about favorite method so that I will preferred Total Physical Method because it's mostly using in school and even PG level. According to my point of view though this method students get knowledge proper way. Another one of the benefit students learnt something new with enjoy. Sometime in PG level it's used difficult task for teachers & Methods.

3.) Tell something going about the method you didn’t like from School till PG. Give Reasons.
    

 I didn't like The Crammer translation method about which I have given reason in above my answer. The second method was The silent way. Because it is like oneway if we didn't questions or share our view with teachers. We find lack of communication.

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Poe's short stories: Dr.Jay mehta's task

 Poe's short stories: Dr.Jay mehta's task:

• https://jaynmehta.blogspot.com/

• About Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

On 16th August to 19th August we have guest lecture for Edger Allan Poe short story explain by Dr.Jay Mehtasir. This are the five short story:-

1) The Fall of House
2) The Purloined Letter
3) The Gold Bug
4) The Tell Tale Heart
5) The Cask of Amontillado

•  Make a comparative study of 'The Tell-tale Heart' and 'The Black Cat'.

‘The Tell tale Heart’ is kind of self conference story while also self conference story. Both story narrative style is different because we can not decide who is ‘The Tell tale Heart' story narrator. In this story, the narrator is ‘I' so how can we decided who is narrate he or she. This is a story of a servant killed his Ower because of his ower queer eye. While 'The Black cat' story related to one person killed the cat because of his ego hurt then he killed his wife also. Both story crime reason one hatred eye. One is person eye and The black cat story protagonist haterd black cat eye

• Analyze the genre of short story keeping in mind Poe's works. References of stories by other writers and/or regional writers are expected in it.

I analysis to focus on the genre of short stories, so these things are more appropriate to analysing short story as like setting, plot, characterization, plot and structure, conflict and climax, theme and narrative point of view. Here analyse of Poe's short story it is type of Gothic story or horror story. Poe's story setting is also horrible and main character actions are also horrible. He also follow climax and conflict for example The Tell Tale heart story starting as smoothly but end with murdered. Characters are shown they have conflict what to do and how can do crime ?
Most of I didn’t read story book but I remember some of the story which were in my syllabus. Out syllabus I read some of Jayantilal Gohil's short story. But here one short story “Garasani” by Zaverchand Meghani this story main character action as like terrible.

At last day Jaysir told us how to write poem and suggest to read lot then write something.
So thank you Jaysir for these wonderful session and I would like thanks to our professor Dilip Baradsir for organized that fruitful session for us.

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August : Patriotism and Religious fervour

• August : Patriotism and Religious fervour

August month is most of we called it religious month as Indian we know we are most notable country for lost of celebration country. During this month specially Gujarati celebrate lost of religious festivals like Rakshabandhan, Nagpanchami, Shitala Satham, Janmashtami, Id Mubarak etc. But it is my illusion because other states also celebrates this kind of days.

Patriotism VS Religious

During this month most people busy to celebrate religious festivals and they may be forgotten 15th August independence day behind history how we get freedom, we have a cruel history behind freedom it is a partition of India divided two-country - India and Pakistan, most of the people forget partition upon the nonsense based religion. So it is fair to forget the scene. Now again our most of Political party do that thing and we are celebrating and clapping when they speak on religious. For example Political leader speaks –

 
Religious VS Science
In the real sense people free from religious beliefs because still people believe to celebrate shitala sath doing worship to Shitalamata to believing she will save from chickenpox and smallpox but scientist vaccination helpful for us, not any goddess myrical. And most of people don't know about scientist Edward Jenner who found vaccination to spoil varial infection. While Magal massion kind of movie to appreciate the religious so it like bothering for us. How can be religious ideas connect with science? Because both are dealing with different ideas.



I like the most these are lines, how we are still not free to speak against nation because it considers as like traitorism here again question against freedom In Defence of Freedom: A Film by Nandita Das in this film Saadat Hasan Manto - played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui, his argument also suggest what is freedom, really we are free to write and speak bitter reality of nation

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Girish Karnad - The Artist , the citizens and the questions of truth

• Girish Karnad - The Artist , the citizens and the questions of truth

• The Artist, the Citizens and the questions Click here

Girish Raghunath Karnad, the Karnataka film actor, director, writer, and playwright died 10 June 2019 at the age of 81 due to multiple organ failure. After his death so many controversy happen but not more shown by journalist and which we know controversy that may be real or some fact also. Because we are living in post truth area so we have difficult to justify what is truth and what is false. Karnad was great critic and always criticized other Indian writer like he didn’t like Rabindranath Tagore drama so he easily said as critic Tagore’s drama like boring.One of the famous Journalist Shri Sandeep Balakrishna in his article published in Dharmadispach. Sandeep characterizes Girish Karnad as an “outstanding political pamphleteer, artful dodger, fine actor, a mediocre director, and a terrible playwright

Hindu hatred controversy –

One of journalist said that Girish Karnad had brought shame to his country through his distortion of Hindu mythology, Indian history, culture, and traditions. Moreover, this public discourse has been completely centered around Girish’s personal affiliations, and not due to some social cause. It boggles one’s mind when realized that in an effort to fulfill his ambitions, Girish Karnad has indoctrinated much hatred for the Hindus and has downright discriminated against their rights and practices, under the label of ‘secularism’.On a related note, Tipuvina Kanasugalu is Karnad’s second attempt at glorifying Islamic barbarians and mass-murderers of Hindus as freedom fighters and misunderstood geniuses. The first was his “play,” Tughlaq, which bestowed sainthood upon the genocidal Muslim bigot, the madman Mohammad Bin Tughlaq. Outwardly, the “play” was supposedly based on this historical character but it is evident that Karnad drew a parallel between Tughlaq and Jawaharlal Nehru by characterizing both as misunderstood geniuses who were denied their rightful place in history by the fascist forces of orthodox and regressive Brahmanism.
The political pamphlet in the name of Tipuvina Kanasugalu was actually is in furtherance to the Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s communal agenda. Girish Karnad and Siddaramaiah had collectively taken several efforts to peddle their anti-Hindi hate in the state.So here One of the controversy is Karnad was Hindu hatred man according to his play Tughalaq because in this play he portrait Muslim is protagonist and this character killed so many Hindus. According to me we can not see people without attached with religious if any famous person some of ideas like different to compare other so that person called hater of majority. But it is not affairs for anyone because everyone has own choice.

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Review on Vinod joshi sir's Interview on " Sairandhri ".

• Review on Vinod joshi sir's Interview on " Sairandhri ".

Hello, everyone here I am going to talk about most famous Gujarati poet Vinod joshi and his interview.

Vinod Joshi is a postmodern Gujarati poet, writer and critic from Gujarat, India. His notable works include Parantu, a collection of Geets, Shikhandi, a long narrative poem based on Shikhandi, a character from the Mahabharata. He is the recipient of the Jayant Pathak Puraskar (1985), Critic's award (1986), Kavishwar Dalpatram Award (2013), Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar (2015), Narsinh Mehta Award (2018), and Kalapi Award (2018).

• Sairandhri by Vinod joshi

Structures:- 

He published this poem in 2018.This metrical poem composed in prabandha form with seven cantos, 49 chapters and 1800 lines. It is based on Draupadi, one of the characters of Hindu epic Mahabharata. Here poet tried to explain Draupadi's feeling and thoughts. As a part of languages I can find that poet used figurative language, personification, meters, Chopai and Dohra in ' Sairandhri '. Here poet used Shrigar rasa also. Moreover I added that ' language always applied and each language has own valluations '. Normally creation of poem is reflection of poet's thoughts and reflection of background language. So here Vinod joshi born in rural area so He handed down his rural words in poem

Vinod joshi wrote one prabandh kavya " sairandhri". The event and poem basically takes place on India but as it is written in Australia It reflects the character of Draupadi. The poem recalls the memory of MAHABHARATA. Specially a VIRAT PARV ; when pandva and Draupadi live in king virat's palace. They live in " Agyat vas ". They hide their identity. In Hastinapur Draupadi was a queen but here in palace she leaves as a Maidservant of King virat's wife. In Hastinapur she gets help of shri Krishna and bheema and many more but here she can't find anyone's help. Here vinod joshi's Sairandhri was quite differ from mahabharat. Vinod joshi applied his imagination in poem. He writes that sairandhri like to karna in first sight when her # swaymvar # is happening. Her first like karma. Arjun was the second for her. karn was her first choice and Arjun was second choice. Karna was also hide his identity as he was the son of Kuntama. So, both are hiding their identity. so here vinod joshi draw his imagination world. so, in poem we can saw the question of identity. Five pandvas, Draupadi and karna hide themselves.
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    So, here Vinod sir present love story of Sairandhri and karna which was quite different from MAHABHARATA. From this poem we also for a while try to think on this type of condition, imagination. So it was a good poem which shows another perspective of the Mabharat's scene.

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Thinking activity on " The waste Land " poem.

• Thinking activity on " The waste Land " poem.

The waste Land is a poem by T.S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most alternating narrations, in which vignettes of several characters address those themes experimentally. It was published in 1922. It was very complicated poem to read. Eliot has take many references, characters, languages, scenes and images. Eliot has done use of enjambment. 

Poem's structure divided into five sections :-
1. The Burial of the Dead
2. A game of chess
3. The fire sermon
4. Death by water
5. What the Thunder said.

1) What are your views on the following image after reading 'The Waste Land'? Do you think that Eliot is as compared to Nietzche's views? or Has Eliot achieved universality of thought by recalling my tho-historical answer to the contemporary malaise?

Eliot stands for Regressive, backward looking as it tries to find answers of contemporary malaise in Upanishads, Buddhism and Christianity.
On the other side Nietzsche stands for progressive and forward looking, in giving solution to the problem of contemporary crises in faith and self.
In compared to Nietzsche's thought, yes Eliot is regressive but it doesn't mean that he only rises question on his contemporary society, he also tries to give way of solution rather than the answers. Cycle of time always moving and when History start repeating one must have to look back and try to learn that what are mistakes our ancestor did and now when time comes to us how we will deal with it?
It is certain and right that new questions's answer we couldn't find in Upanishads, Buddhism and Christianity but the way of living,understanding towards any situation one can develop.
So we can conclude that it is also right that problems of contemporary crisis' solution is in faith and self but, the level of faith and understanding of self must be necessary. It comes from reading of myth-historical and religious thought. Eliot achieved that universality of thought.

2) Prior to the speech, Gustaf Hellström of the Swedish Academy made these remarks:

T.S. Eliot and S. Freud

According to my opinion Free vent to the repressed primitive instinct will automatically leads towards anarchy. We don't create disorganization in the community and world. Here in the epic poem I think Eliot has powerful ideas rather than Sigman froed. Another thing is that We all are lives our lives with specific perspective, with discipline and with moral rituals. Although life became more appropriate and enjoyable. Thus here i don't agree with idea of Freud.

3) Write about allusions to the Indian thoughts in 'The Waste Land'. (Where, How and Why are the Indian thoughts referred?)

- Here I found some Indian thought in ' The Waste Land'; in part no ; 3 The fire sermon its title which Eliot has taken it from Buddha's. It connected with Buddha. And then Then spoke the thunder
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Datta means to give: not only charity but giving oneself for some novel cause
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Dayadhvam means sympathise – empathise yourself with the sorrows and suffering of others
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Damyata means Self Control, control over one’s
passions and desires
Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih
So Eliot has taken reference from many languages and from many writer and culture. So it is a mixture of all this thing. Here Eliot try to connected this all things and also try to deal with universal idea of world.

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OD ON ONENESS OF LITERATURE

• OD on oneness of literature :

This blog is part of my academic activity. Here we have asked to see oneness in literature, with the comparison of "The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot and the short story "Joke" by Anton Chekhov.

All literature are connected with each other; all, those which are already written, those being written and those yet to be written. Thus, to understand a work of art, one must have an outstanding of this continuity.

Literature is like a river, water of river makes it's own small different ways and flaws in different directions but the root is same. According to Northrop Frye, all literature seems to follow basic archetype. The skeleton is same the body is different. Every new literature has some connection with the old one and with that connection it makes it place in existing building of literature. Every literature has some signs and symbols, sometimes the signs and symbols are same but meanings are different. As every writer has it's own reason to write, to put certain symbols, and to give certain
message through symbols.Here the lines from "Waste Land" and Anton Chekhov's short story "Joke" has some same symbols like environment, going down on the sled. In "Waste Land" it's about childhood memory the hidden meaning is sexual perversion, but in "Joke" has visible meaning of lust. In"Joke" there is only lust and name was given of love. So both has some similarities. Which also signifies oneness of literature.
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