Devika Panikar
δάσκαλος (dáskalos) means the teacher in Greek. Devika Panikar has been teaching English Language and Literature since 2006. She is an Assistant Professor with the Directorate of Collegiate Education under the Government of Kerala and now works at the Government College Kasaragod. This website is a collection of lecture notes she prepared by referring to various sources for her students’ perusal.
Teaching Prose
Teaching prose is mainly meant to develop the four language skills -Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. The activities planned by the teacher must allow for the development of these four skill...
Teaching Poetry
Poetry contains the best and most sublime emotions of the human mind. It is also the most effective means for the purgation of evil emotions. Good poetry is a thing of beauty, thought and form. It a...
Hyponymy
In linguistics, a hyponym is a word that denotes a subcategory within a broader category, which is named by a hypernym. The relationship between a hyponym and a hypernym is called hyponymy, a fundamen...
Teaching Literature
Literature studies the world of imagination, where anything is possible, and anything can be assumed. Ideas, feelings and experiences expressed through language are known as literature. Therefore, t...
The Lesson Plan
Teaching is a complex task. The different steps constituting the teaching process are called the phases of teaching.Phases of TeachingThe teaching process can be divided into three phases-
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story o...
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew title of the Book is Qohelet, a term related to the verb qāhal, “to gather, assemble.” The English name derives from the Greek translation of t...
What I Believe
E M Forster is primarily known as a novelist, short story writer and literary critic of a rare distinction. Though his contribution to English essays is substantial, he has yet to receive the critic...