Bøger af Taj Mohammad

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin This compendium brings together studies that deal with different aspects of teaching and learning a second/foreign language. The chapters/edited collections, while highlighting the discrete vs. integrated skills teaching and learning issues, discussing the reasons behind learners¿ low level performance, reasons behind learners¿ poor communication skills, presenting an in-depth analysis and pedagogical remedies to address the issues, embody a variety of themes on language teaching. The intended audiences are those who teach English as a Second Language (ESL), English as a Foreign Language (EFL), or English for Specific/Special Purposes (ESP). Another population that would benefit from the volume is English language educators (teachers or college students) who are in the process of becoming professional educators.

ELT METHODS AND APPROACHES: EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS narrates the experiments and observations of different methodological approaches in English Language Teaching. The beginning of each chapter provides a conceptual framework of each method and approach supported by well-known critics and scholars in the field. Such a theoretical background to most of the methods and approaches in English Language Teaching may attract students, research scholars and classroom teachers.The book shares personal experiences in writing this book, an amalgam of theory and practice in English Language Teaching. They emphasize the application of those methods and approaches in a particular EFL/ESL situation. That is what seemed to motivate me to write this book, a different source in that it not only provides the conceptual framework of different methods, approaches and techniques but also executes and experiments with them in EFL/ESL situations. The work is unique as it not only experiments with different methods and approaches but also observes what practical challenges learners and teachers face during their implementation as well as how these difficulties can be addressed and overcome.This text has provided adequate scope for learners, the target group to integrate them into the research. They have actively participated in the creation and formation of this book. The book has positively included learners' feedback on the execution, approach and technique. Their feedback is important in assessing whether a method or approach is successful in a specific EFL/ESL environment. Learners' feedback has assisted the authors as they present, discuss and assess the advantages and disadvantages of each method. We have shared personal experiences with different EFL/ESL learners in three countries, the United States of America, Saudi Arabia and India.

This book presents a critical analysis on the significant postcolonial and postmodern fiction. It provides a critical insight into the issues of postcolonial and postmodern world. It critically analyses the novels and delves deep into postcolonial and postmodern psychology and addresses notions of displacement, Orientalism, partition, definition of self, world, and other; exile, hybridity, migration, nation and cultural schizophrenia; race and imperialism, including Western views of the ¿Orient¿, the treatment of gender and feminist revaluations of mainstream philosophical assumptions, the connections between ¿post-colonial¿ thought and Western postmodernism and Western literary/cultural theory etc. The texts are examined in their historical contexts and emphasize upon their significance in the present time. The texts are approached from any given cultures in their profoundest interconnections in a global setting where aesthetic and ideological perspectives are constantly shifting. It provides with an interplay between Western and Eastern visions as shaped by imperial and post-colonial history ¿ which is refracted through diverging and layered narratives.