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Evaluating Computer-Assisted Language Learning: An Integrated Approach To Effectiveness Research In Call (Review), Deborah J. Crusan
Evaluating Computer-Assisted Language Learning: An Integrated Approach To Effectiveness Research In Call (Review), Deborah J. Crusan
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Since its inception, the field of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has suffered from skeptics questioning whether technology and multimedia have anything to add to language learning. These uncertainties clearly illustrate a need for a comprehensive evaluative model of CALL. In Evaluating Computer-Assisted Language Learning: An Integrated Approach to Effectiveness Research in CALL, Jonathan Leakey asks readers to consider important matters about the field of computer-assisted language learning (CALL). His purpose for the book centers on gathering evidence for the computer’s impact on language learning. He argues for an integrated approach to the evaluation of CALL and constructs a prototype for …
Decolonizing The Modernist Mind, Alpana Sharma
Decolonizing The Modernist Mind, Alpana Sharma
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Cataclysmic changes in the world require new accommodations to it, new ways of articulating the strangeness that abounds. Literary modernism of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries- the main period under study in this special issue-sought precisely to capture that sense of strangeness, matching it and expressing it with new aesthetic forms, styles, and subject matter. But these early forms of expression which delineated the contours of a startling new reality-the technologies of photography and cinema, scientific discoveries, new modes of transportation, global war, postwar trauma, new class and gender formations, the birth of the unconscious, the erosion of an …
Slumdog Millionaire: The Film, The Reception, The Book, The Global, Alpana Sharma
Slumdog Millionaire: The Film, The Reception, The Book, The Global, Alpana Sharma
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire was the runaway commercial hit of 2009 in the United States, nominated for ten Oscars and bagging eight of these, including Best Picture and Best Director. Also included in its trophy bag arc seven British Academy Film awards, all four of the Golden Globe awards for which it was nominated, and five Critics' Choice awards. Viewers and critics alike attribute the film's unexpected popularity at the box office to its universal underdog theme: A kid from the slums of Mumbai makes it to the game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire and wins not only …
The Modernism Of Shashi Deshpande, Alpana Sharma
The Modernism Of Shashi Deshpande, Alpana Sharma
English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications
This essay studies the modernist feature of metafiction in Shashi Deshpande's novels to show how it allows Deshpande to discover an agency which, while conceived in personal and idiosyncratic terms as an isolated woman's bid for independence, has ramifications extending beyond the confines of the home and the book to an outright challenge of patriarchy. An exposition of the place that writing and art occupy in Deshpande's fiction is followed by an excursion into three aspects of the female creative process shared by her artist protagonists: its genesis in mourning, its expression in sexual being, and its feminist subversion of …