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LANGUAGE

Exploring Key Learning Theories, Strategies, and Teaching Platforms

Devika Panikar -
In modern education, vari...
LANGUAGE

Multiple Intelligences Theory

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The Multiple Intelligence...
LANGUAGE

Acculturation

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Acculturation refers to h...
LANGUAGE

Krashen’s Monitor Model

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A prominent linguist and ...
PROSE

Vanka

Devika Panikar -
Vanka is a short story wr...
LINGUSTICS

Literary Theory and Its Discontents

Devika Panikar -
John R Searle's essay Lit...
LINGUSTICS

Literary Criticism and Its Discontents

Devika Panikar -
Geoffrey Hartman's essay ...
LITERATURE

Tradition and the Individual Talent

Devika Panikar -
T S Eliot's essay Traditi...
LITERATURE

Preface to the Works of Shakespeare

Devika Panikar -
Samuel Johnson's Preface ...
LITERATURE

Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Devika Panikar -
William Wordsworth's Pref...
LINGUSTICS

Discourse in the Novel

Devika Panikar -
Discourse in the Novel by...
POETRY

Waiting

Devika Panikar -
Rabindranath Tagore's Wai...
LINGUSTICS

The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles

Devika Panikar -
Roman Jakobson's The Meta...
POETRY

Adam

Devika Panikar -
Rainer Maria Rilke's poem...
PROSE

The Piece of String

Devika Panikar -
Guy de Maupassant's The P...
POETRY

There’s a Certain Slant of Light

Devika Panikar -
Emily Dickinson's poem Th...
LINGUSTICS

The Formalist Critics

Devika Panikar -
In The Formalist Critics,...
POETRY

Pied Beauty

Devika Panikar -
As with several poems by ...
PROSE

The Repentant Sinner

Devika Panikar -
Leo Tolstoy's The Repenta...
LANGUAGE

Close Reading, Paraphrasing and Summarising

Devika Panikar -
Close reading, paraphrasi...
LANGUAGE

Barriers to Communication

Devika Panikar -
Barriers to communication...
LANGUAGE

Workplace Communication

Devika Panikar -
Effective communication i...
LANGUAGE

Types of Communication  

Devika Panikar -
Communication occurs thro...
LANGUAGE

Note Making

Devika Panikar -
Note making is capturing,...
LANGUAGE

Business Letter  

Devika Panikar -
A business letter is a fo...
LANGUAGE

Circulars

Devika Panikar -
A circular is a formal wr...
POETRY

The Windhover

Devika Panikar -
The Windhover is a profou...
LANGUAGE

Group Discussion

Devika Panikar -
Group discussions (GDs) a...
LITERATURE

The First Circle of Hell

Devika Panikar -
Canto 4 of Inferno is par...
POETRY

The Drunken Boat

Devika Panikar -
Arthur Rimbaud's poem The...
LITERATURE

The Divine Comedy

Devika Panikar -
The Divine Comedy by Dant...
LANGUAGE

Essential Skills for Building Connections

Devika Panikar -
Interpersonal communicati...
LINGUSTICS

New Criticism

Devika Panikar -
New Criticism is a formal...
LANGUAGE

Giving Directions and Instructions

Devika Panikar -
Effective communication o...
LITERATURE

World Classics

Devika Panikar -
The world's literary clas...
LINGUSTICS

Formalism

Devika Panikar -
Formalism is a school of ...
POETRY

The Sleeper in the Valley

Devika Panikar -
The Sleeper in the Valley...
LANGUAGE

Introducing Others

Devika Panikar -
Introducing others is a s...
POETRY

The Scholar-Gypsy

Devika Panikar -
Matthew Arnold was a writ...
LANGUAGE

Introducing Oneself

Devika Panikar -
Introducing oneself is in...
POETRY

Exotic Perfume

Devika Panikar -
Charles Baudelaire's Exot...
POETRY

Ulysses

Devika Panikar -
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's p...
LINGUSTICS

Structuralism and the Qualities of Literature

Devika Panikar -
Jonathan Culler's Structu...
POETRY

Fallen Flower

Devika Panikar -
Kumaran Asan is one of th...
LINGUSTICS

Structuralism and Beyond

Devika Panikar -
Structuralism, primarily ...
LITERATURE

Four Kinds of Meaning

Devika Panikar -
I A Richards, a prominent...
POETRY

To Autumn

Devika Panikar -
To Autumn, written by Joh...
LITERATURE

Objective Criticism

Devika Panikar -
Objective criticism is a ...
LITERATURE

The Romantic and Victorian Era

Devika Panikar -
The Romantic and Victoria...
POETRY

Democracy

Devika Panikar -
Democracy, a poem by the ...
LITERATURE

The Decline of English Literature

Devika Panikar -
The "decline of English l...
PROSE

Nehru and Science in the Age of Coronavirus

Devika Panikar -
Nehru and Science in the ...
LITERATURE

Movement Poetry

Devika Panikar -
Movement Poetry is a term...
LITERATURE

Neoclassical Criticism

Devika Panikar -
Neoclassical criticism, w...
PROSE

The Indian Constitution: Limited but Necessary

Devika Panikar -
Prof Gopinath Ravindran, ...
POETRY

To a Skylark

Devika Panikar -
To a Skylark by Percy Bys...
LITERATURE

Modernism and Postmodernism

Devika Panikar -
Modernism and Postmoderni...
PROSE

Blackout

Devika Panikar -
Roger Mais's Blackout is ...
PROSE

Union Government, Not Central Government

Devika Panikar -
Nanabhoy "Nani" Ardeshir ...
PROSE

A Hindu Princess and Her Islamic Dynasty

Devika Panikar -
A Hindu Princess and Her ...
LITERATURE

Aristotle’s Poetics

Devika Panikar -
Aristotle (384-322 BC) wa...
LITERATURE

Naturalism: A Harsh Reflection of Reality

Devika Panikar -
Naturalism is a style and...
LITERATURE

Realism: A Mirror to Society

Devika Panikar -
Realism is an approach to...
LITERATURE

Literature and the Second World War

Devika Panikar -
The Second World War, spa...
POETRY

Africa

Devika Panikar -
Africa, a poem by Maya An...
LITERATURE

Classical Criticism

Devika Panikar -
Classical criticism refer...
POETRY

The Rich Will Make Temples for Siva

Devika Panikar -
Basavanna (1105-1167 CE) ...
LANGUAGE

Integrating Grammar and Vocabulary in Context

Devika Panikar -
Integrating grammar and v...
LANGUAGE

ELT Contexts and Acronyms

Devika Panikar -
English Language Teaching...
LANGUAGE

Teaching Language Skills

Devika Panikar -
Effective communication r...
LANGUAGE

Methods in ELT

Devika Panikar -
Methods in English Langua...
LANGUAGE

Terms in ELT

Devika Panikar -
Understanding the key ter...
LANGUAGE

ELT in India

Devika Panikar -
English language teaching...
POETRY

Meter in Poetry

Devika Panikar -
Meter refers to the struc...
PLAY

Masque

Devika Panikar -
A masque is a form of fes...
POETRY

Mock-Epic

Devika Panikar -
A mock-epic, also known a...
PLAY

Absurdist Drama

Devika Panikar -
Absurdist drama, also kno...
POETRY

An Ode

Devika Panikar -
An ode is a form of lyric...
PLAY

Epic Theatre

Devika Panikar -
Epic theatre, also known ...
POETRY

Poetic Devices

Devika Panikar -
The English language cont...
PLAY

Black Comedy

Devika Panikar -
Black comedy, also known ...
LANGUAGE

Oxymorons

Devika Panikar -
An oxymoron is a figure o...
PLAY

Domestic Tragedy

Devika Panikar -
Domestic tragedy is a sub...
POETRY

Stanza Forms

Devika Panikar -
Like any art form, poetry...
PLAY

Burlesque

Devika Panikar -
Burlesque is a literary a...
PLAY

Farce

Devika Panikar -
Farce is a genre of comed...
POETRY

Poetry: Subjective and Objective

Devika Panikar -
Poetry can be broadly cat...
PLAY

Kitchen Sink Drama

Devika Panikar -
Kitchen sink drama, a ter...
PLAY

The Trial

Devika Panikar -
Act 4, Scene 1 of William...
POETRY

Haiku

Devika Panikar -
Haiku is a traditional Ja...
PLAY

Calpurnia’s Dream

Devika Panikar -
Act 2, Scene 2 of William...
PLAY

Melodrama

Devika Panikar -
Melodrama is a dramatic g...
PLAY

Heroic Drama

Devika Panikar -
Heroic drama, also known ...
PLAY

Revenge Tragedy

Devika Panikar -
Revenge tragedy is a dram...
LITERATURE

The Satire

Devika Panikar -
Satire is a literary and ...
PLAY

The Aside

Devika Panikar -
In theatre, an aside is a...
LITERATURE

English Literature Through the Ages

Devika Panikar -
English literature has a ...
PLAY

The Chorus

Devika Panikar -
The word chorus means a '...
LANGUAGE

Writing a News Report

Devika Panikar -
A news report is a factua...
POETRY

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Devika Panikar -
Elegy Written in a Countr...
PLAY

The Soliloquy

Devika Panikar -
The soliloquy is a dramat...
LANGUAGE

Tips for Writing Reports

Devika Panikar -
Writing reports can be ch...
POETRY

An Elegy

Devika Panikar -
An elegy is a mournful, m...
POETRY

Not My Best Side

Devika Panikar -
Not My Best Side by U A F...
PLAY

Sentimental Comedy

Devika Panikar -
Sentimental comedy is a g...
POETRY

Macavity: The Mystery Cat

Devika Panikar -
Macavity: The Mystery Cat...
PLAY

Comedy of Manners

Devika Panikar -
Comedy of Manners, also k...
POETRY

Darkness

Devika Panikar -
Darkness is a narrative p...
LANGUAGE

Courtroom Language and the Common Man

Devika Panikar -
Legal English is the lang...
POETRY

The Circus Animals’ Desertion

Devika Panikar -
The Circus Animal's Deser...
PLAY

Comedy of Humours

Devika Panikar -
Comedy of Humours is a ty...
LANGUAGE

Legal English

Devika Panikar -
Legal English refers to t...
LITERATURE

Romantic Comedy

Devika Panikar -
The romantic comedy, ofte...
POETRY

The Arrow and the Song 

Devika Panikar -
Henry Wadsworth Longfello...
POETRY

A Subaltern

Devika Panikar -
A Subaltern is a poem by ...
POETRY

Porphyria’s Lover

Devika Panikar -
Porphyria's Lover is a dr...
LITERATURE

The Short Story

Devika Panikar -
The short story is a fasc...
POETRY

Kubla Khan

Devika Panikar -
Kubla Khan is a renowned ...
PROSE

Grim Realities, Hopeful Hues

Devika Panikar -
Justice V R Krishna Iyer ...
POETRY

The Lyric

Devika Panikar -
The term lyric in poetry ...
LANGUAGE

The Royal Order of Adjectives

Devika Panikar -
The English language give...
POETRY

Nani

Devika Panikar -
The poem Nani by Kamala D...
POETRY

The Sonnet

Devika Panikar -
The sonnet is a famous cl...
LANGUAGE

Pronouns

Devika Panikar -
Pronouns are an essential...
POETRY

A Farewell

Devika Panikar -
A Valediction: Forbidding...
LINGUSTICS

Voiced and Voiceless Sounds

Devika Panikar -
In linguistics, sounds pr...
LANGUAGE

To Become Better Listeners

Devika Panikar -
Developing listening skil...
PLAY

Under Fire

Devika Panikar -
Laurence Housman is a pro...
LANGUAGE

Good Listening

Devika Panikar -
Good listening involves a...
POETRY

A Consumer’s Report

Devika Panikar -
A Consumer's Report by Pe...
LANGUAGE

Barriers to Listening

Devika Panikar -
Listening effectively is ...
POETRY

Prayer Before Birth

Devika Panikar -
Prayer Before Birth is a ...
LANGUAGE

The Process of Listening

Devika Panikar -
Listening is a complex br...
PLAY

The Pie and the Tart

Devika Panikar -
Hugh Chesterman is a Brit...
LANGUAGE

Complement Clause

Devika Panikar -
A complement clause is a ...
POETRY

General’s ‘Powerful’ Tank

Devika Panikar -
General, Your Tank is a P...
PLAY

The Brink of Silence

Devika Panikar -
Esther E Galbraith's one-...
LITERATURE

Irony 

Devika Panikar -
Irony is a literary and r...
LANGUAGE

Listening vs. Hearing

Devika Panikar -
Listening is a valuable s...
LANGUAGE

Collective Noun

Devika Panikar -
A collective noun is a ty...
POETRY

The Road Not Taken

Devika Panikar -
The Road Not Taken by Rob...
PLAY

The Dear Departed

Devika Panikar -
William Stanley Houghton ...
LANGUAGE

Listening

Devika Panikar -
Listening in communicatio...
POETRY

A Modernist Masterpiece

Devika Panikar -
T S Eliot's The Waste Lan...
PLAY

One-act Play

Devika Panikar -
A one-act play is a theat...
POETRY

The Waste Land

Devika Panikar -
The Waste Land, the most ...
LINGUSTICS

The Speech Mechanism

Devika Panikar -
The speech mechanism invo...
PROSE

Complexities of Gender Roles

Devika Panikar -
Easterine Kire's novel A ...
LINGUSTICS

The Organs of Speech

Devika Panikar -
The organs of speech refe...
PROSE

A Rich Tapestry of Characters

Devika Panikar -
Amitav Ghosh's novel The ...
LINGUSTICS

English as Lingua Franca

Devika Panikar -
English as Lingua Franca ...
LITERATURE

Road Literature

Devika Panikar -
Road literature, also kno...
LANGUAGE

Formal and Informal Speech

Devika Panikar -
Speaking is one of the mo...
POETRY

An Introduction

Devika Panikar -
Kamala Das, a prominent I...
LANGUAGE

Speaking as a Skill

Devika Panikar -
Speaking is crucial in va...
PROSE

Insight into Experiences and Challenges

Devika Panikar -
The Truth about Me: A Hij...
LANGUAGE

Simple, Compound, Complex Sentences

Devika Panikar -
Understanding sentence st...
PROSE

Exploring the Complex Social Dynamics

Devika Panikar -
The Truth about Me: A Hij...
PROSE

The Kerouac Narrative

Devika Panikar -
Jack Kerouac's On the Roa...
LANGUAGE

Degrees of Comparison

Devika Panikar -
Degrees of comparison ref...
PROSE

A Hijra Life Story

Devika Panikar -
The Truth About Me: A Hij...
LANGUAGE

More About Verbs

Devika Panikar -
Verbs are the backbone of...
POETRY

The Epic

Devika Panikar -
The epic is one of human ...
LINGUSTICS

Pronunciation of Past Tense “-ed”

Devika Panikar -
Correct pronunciation pla...
LANGUAGE

Verbs

Devika Panikar -
A verb is a word that exp...
LITERATURE

Countercultural Movements

Devika Panikar -
Countercultural movements...
POETRY

Trophic Cascade

Devika Panikar -
Trophic Cascade by Camill...
LITERATURE

The Beat Generation

Devika Panikar -
The Beat Generation refer...
LINGUSTICS

The Intrusive ‘r’ in Phonetics

Devika Panikar -
Intrusive 'r' is a phenom...
PROSE

A Diverse and Dynamic Cast

Devika Panikar -
On the Road by Jack Kerou...
POETRY

Sonnet 18

Devika Panikar -
Sonnet 18, written by the...
PROSE

In Search of Adventure and Meaning

Devika Panikar -
On the Road is a 1957 nov...
LITERATURE

An Autobiography

Devika Panikar -
An autobiography is a wri...
LINGUSTICS

Linking ‘r’

Devika Panikar -
In phonetics, linking 'r'...
PROSE

On the Road

Devika Panikar -
On the Road by Jack Kerou...
LITERATURE

Travel Writing

Devika Panikar -
Travel writing is a capti...
LANGUAGE

Precis Writing

Devika Panikar -
Precis writing is a summa...
LINGUSTICS

Standard English

Devika Panikar -
Received Pronunciation, a...
POETRY

The Alcoholic at Dawn

Devika Panikar -
The Alcoholic at Dawn by ...
LINGUSTICS

The English Phonetic Alphabet

Devika Panikar -
Pronunciation in English ...
POETRY

The Little Black Boy

Devika Panikar -
William Blake was the mos...
POETRY

Agony

Devika Panikar -
Anil Gharai is arguably o...
LINGUSTICS

Allomorph

Devika Panikar -
The allomorphs are the va...
POETRY

Identity Card

Devika Panikar -
The poem Identity Card by...
LANGUAGE

Proverbs

Devika Panikar -
A proverb is a well-known...
POETRY

House of a Thousand Doors

Devika Panikar -
Meena Alexander’s poetry ...
LANGUAGE

Constructivism

Devika Panikar -
Constructivism is the the...
LINGUSTICS

Morpheme

Devika Panikar -
A morpheme is the smalles...
PLAY

Naga-Mandala

Devika Panikar -
The play Naga-Mandala is ...
LANGUAGE

Cognitivism

Devika Panikar -
Cognitivism is a theory o...
PLAY

Karnad the Playwright

Devika Panikar -
Girish Raghunath Karnad i...
LANGUAGE

Behaviourism

Devika Panikar -
Behaviourism or the Behav...
POETRY

The Gift Outright

Devika Panikar -
Robert Frost was a great ...
LANGUAGE

Podcasting

Devika Panikar -
A podcast is a digital au...
LITERATURE

World Literature

Devika Panikar -
World literature is used ...
PROSE

The Shadow Lines

Devika Panikar -
The Shadow Lines (1988) b...
PROSE

A Terrible Matriarchy

Devika Panikar -
Easterine Kire is a well-...
LINGUSTICS

Tagmemics

Devika Panikar -
The tagmemic theory is co...
LITERATURE

Flat and Round Characters

Devika Panikar -
Characters are a vital co...
POETRY

The Mind Without Fear

Devika Panikar -
Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo -...
LINGUSTICS

Cleft Sentences

Devika Panikar -
A cleft sentence is one i...
LANGUAGE

Articles

Devika Panikar -
Articles are words that d...
PROSE

A Gandhian Novel

Devika Panikar -
Kanthapura is a fictional...
LINGUSTICS

Intonation

Devika Panikar -
Intonation is a feature o...
LANGUAGE

Preposition

Devika Panikar -
A preposition is a word o...
PROSE

Kanthapura

Devika Panikar -
Kanthapura is the first n...
PLAY

Being Incomplete

Devika Panikar -
Hayavadana, Girish Karnad...
POETRY

Still I Rise

Devika Panikar -
Maya Angelou’s works ofte...
PLAY

History Plays

Devika Panikar -
A history play is a drama...
LANGUAGE

Direct to Indirect

Devika Panikar -
Direct speech is exactly ...
PLAY

Mystery Plays

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Mystery plays are religio...
LANGUAGE

Conjunction

Devika Panikar -
A conjunction is a part o...
PLAY

Hayavadana

Devika Panikar -
Hayavadana, the play by G...
LANGUAGE

Types of Phrases

Devika Panikar -
A phrase is one or more w...
PROSE

The Kitemaker

Devika Panikar -
Ruskin Bond’s story The K...
LANGUAGE

Phrases

Devika Panikar -
A phrase is a small group...
PROSE

Father’s Help

Devika Panikar -
Father's Help is one of R...
PROSE

Pather Panchali: Romantic and Realistic

Devika Panikar -
In a folk narrative of an...
LANGUAGE

Clauses

Devika Panikar -
A clause is a group of wo...
LANGUAGE

Passive Voice in Action

Devika Panikar -
Active sentences are abou...
POETRY

Daffodils

Devika Panikar -
The poem, I Wandered Lone...
LANGUAGE

Anchoring

Devika Panikar -
Anchoring any kind of fun...
PLAY

Woman as Protagonist and Victim

Devika Panikar -
Silence! The Court is in ...
POETRY

I Can’t Help Blossoming

Devika Panikar -
Dr K Ayyappa Panikar is o...
LANGUAGE

Active and Passive

Devika Panikar -
Voice refers to the form ...
POETRY

Tagore as a Poet

Devika Panikar -
An outstanding poet, a ...
LANGUAGE

Concord

Devika Panikar -
The term Concord refers t...
PROSE

The Song of the Road

Devika Panikar -
Pather Panchali, a vibr...
LINGUSTICS

Speech Sounds

Devika Panikar -
A language can be used in...
POETRY

The Art of Losing

Devika Panikar -
Tishani Doshi is an India...
LANGUAGE

Describing People

Devika Panikar -
Character descriptions ar...
PLAY

The Tragicomedy

Devika Panikar -
Tragicomedy is a genre th...
PLAY

The Comedy

Devika Panikar -
Comedy is a literary ge...
POETRY

Exploration into Individuality

Devika Panikar -
Well-known in her nativ...
LANGUAGE

Confusing Contronyms

Devika Panikar -
Many people -native speak...
PLAY

From Transience to Permanence

Devika Panikar -
Rabindranath Tagore’s Chi...
LANGUAGE

The Present Tense

Devika Panikar -
In the English language, ...
POETRY

A Dog has Died

Devika Panikar -
A Dog has Died by Pablo N...
LANGUAGE

Introduction to Tenses

Devika Panikar -
In modern linguistic theo...
LANGUAGE

ICT in ELT

Devika Panikar -
English is one of the mos...
PROSE

Fire on the Mountain

Devika Panikar -
Anita Desai has added a n...
LANGUAGE

ICT Enabled Learning

Devika Panikar -
Long before the e-learnin...
LANGUAGE

Developing Soft Skills

Devika Panikar -
Soft skills relate to how...
LANGUAGE

Factors Influencing Learning

Devika Panikar -
Learning is a complex pro...
PROSE

The Nightmare of Malcolm X

Devika Panikar -
The Autobiography of Malc...
LANGUAGE

The Simulation Technique

Devika Panikar -
Simulation, in industry, ...
POETRY

Journey to the Interior

Devika Panikar -
Margaret Eleanor Atwood's...
PLAY

The Tragedy

Devika Panikar -
Tragedy is a genre of l...
PROSE

Tradition Against Modernity

Devika Panikar -
R K Narayan is a great no...
LANGUAGE

Debating as a Teaching Tool

Devika Panikar -
The main mission of the e...
LANGUAGE

Writing a Memo

Devika Panikar -
A memo (also known as a m...
POETRY

The Subaltern Speaks

Devika Panikar -
In post-colonial theory, ...
LANGUAGE

Critical Pedagogy in the Classroom

Devika Panikar -
Correcting students need ...
PLAY

A Critique of Gender Discrimination

Devika Panikar -
Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence...
POETRY

Ritusamhara

Devika Panikar -
Kalidasa’s Ritusamhara is...
PLAY

Sophoclean Drama

Devika Panikar -
Sophocles was an ancient ...
LANGUAGE

From Critical Theory to Critical Pedagogy

Devika Panikar -
Critical Pedagogy (CP) em...
LITERATURE

Dante Divine

Devika Panikar -
Dante Alighieri was a Med...
LANGUAGE

Bringing Classroom and Society Together

Devika Panikar -
Critical pedagogy is a te...
LINGUSTICS

Universal Grammar

Devika Panikar -
Universal Grammar Theory ...
PLAY

Antigone, the Classic

Devika Panikar -
Classical works of litera...
POETRY

Dawn at Puri

Devika Panikar -
Jayanta Mahapatra is a po...
PLAY

Types of Drama

Devika Panikar -
From the earliest times d...
LANGUAGE

Language Games

Devika Panikar -
Language learning is a ha...
POETRY

A Satire Against Racism

Devika Panikar -
Telephone Conversation is...
LANGUAGE

Preparing a Curriculum Vitae

Devika Panikar -
A curriculum vitae or CV ...
LITERATURE

Homer’s Epics

Devika Panikar -
Homer, the earliest poet ...
LANGUAGE

Learner Oriented Teaching

Devika Panikar -
In the traditional approa...
POETRY

A Challenge to Fate

Devika Panikar -
Belonging to the period o...
LITERATURE

Homer

Devika Panikar -
T S Eliot said that genui...
POETRY

Shelley Calls for Action

Devika Panikar -
Percy Bysshe Shelley once...
LANGUAGE

Basics in Language Learning

Devika Panikar -
Language is a system of...
PROSE

Sparrows

Devika Panikar -
Sparrows by Kwaja Ahmed A...
LITERATURE

Imagery

Devika Panikar -
Imagery is a very common ...
PLAY

The Origin of Drama

Devika Panikar -
Drama is a form of litera...
LITERATURE

Studying Classics

Devika Panikar -
Classic literature is an ...
LINGUSTICS

Psycholinguistics

Devika Panikar -
Language is an integral p...
LITERATURE

The Classics

Devika Panikar -
Classics or classical stu...
LANGUAGE

Writing Advertisements

Devika Panikar -
If you're in business you...
POETRY

Govinda’s Disciple

Devika Panikar -
The poem Govinda’s Discip...
LANGUAGE

Advertisements

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An advertisement is a kin...
LITERATURE

Literature and Life

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Literature is composed of...
LANGUAGE

Essential Components of Communication

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In order to better unders...
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Writing an Agenda

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An effective agenda set...
LANGUAGE

Defining Communication

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Communication is a Latin ...
LITERATURE

More About Ballads

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Ballads, as stage perform...
LANGUAGE

Designing an Agenda

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Here are some tips for de...
LITERATURE

Ballad Forms

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A ballad is a poem that t...
LANGUAGE

Agenda

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An agenda also called a d...
LITERATURE

Ballads

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A ballad is a popular nar...
LANGUAGE

Types of Formal Letters

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Formal letters are writte...
LANGUAGE

Formal Letters

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We live in a world of tec...
LANGUAGE

Usage of Adverbs

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An adverb is a word that’...
LITERATURE

Dramatic Monologue

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Monologue refers to a spe...
LANGUAGE

Informal Letters

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An informal letter also...
LITERATURE

Levels of Aesthetic Distance

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Aesthetic distance, the f...
LANGUAGE

Letter Writing Tips

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The art of writing a le...
LITERATURE

Aesthetic Distance

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Aesthetics is a word that...
PLAY

The Cenci

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The Cenci -A Tragedy in F...
LANGUAGE

Letter Writing

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Before the advent of mo...
LINGUSTICS

Recent Trends in TG

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There have been numerous ...
LANGUAGE

Meeting Minutes Writing

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Meeting minutes, or MOM...
LINGUSTICS

Adverbialisation

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Adverbialisation is the p...
LANGUAGE

Structuring a Report

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Reports generally invol...
LANGUAGE

Placement of Adverbs

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Putting the adverb in the...
LINGUSTICS

Complement Clause Transformations

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Complement ClauseThe Co...
LANGUAGE

Types of Reports

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Reports are well-resear...
LINGUSTICS

Complementation

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A characteristic property...
LANGUAGE

Adverb

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An adverb is a modifying ...
LINGUSTICS

Relativization in Subordination

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In transformational gramm...
LANGUAGE

Report Writing

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In academia, there is ...
LINGUSTICS

Double Based Transformations -Subordination

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In generative grammar, em...
LANGUAGE

British and American Expressions

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There is an old saying ...
LANGUAGE

Use of Adjectives

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An adjective is a word th...
LINGUSTICS

Double-based Transformations: Coordination

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Double-based Transformati...
LANGUAGE

A Blog Post in Five Easy Steps

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Step 1: Plan y...
LINGUSTICS

Passivisation

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In English grammar, passi...
LANGUAGE

Adjectives

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Adjectives are Noun Modif...
LINGUSTICS

Short Response and Emphasis Transformation

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Short Response and Emphas...
LANGUAGE

Blogging

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A blog is a type of websi...
LANGUAGE

Types of Nouns

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Recognising the different...
LINGUSTICS

Tag Question Transformation

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The standard or classical...
LANGUAGE

Writing an Effective Email

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While most of us are happ...
LANGUAGE

Noun Classes

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Nouns are described as wo...
LINGUSTICS

Disambiguation Using TG Grammar

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TG grammar attempts to de...
LANGUAGE

Email Writing

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Email stands for electr...
LINGUSTICS

Analysis Using TG Grammar

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In English, sentences are...
LINGUSTICS

The Transformational Framework

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TG grammar makes use of t...
LINGUSTICS

Transformational Rules

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Transformational Generati...
LANGUAGE

Question Tags

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A tag question is a speci...
LINGUSTICS

An Introduction to TG Grammar

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Transformational grammar ...
LANGUAGE

Barriers to Reading

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The major hurdles in deve...
LINGUSTICS

Why Transformational Generative Grammar?

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In Syntactic Structures, ...
LANGUAGE

Understanding Graphics and Visual Aids

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Understanding graphics an...
LANGUAGE

Improving Reading Skills

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Improving reading skills ...
LANGUAGE

Modes of Reading

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Reading strategies can be...
LANGUAGE

Wh- Question Words

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In English grammar, a wh-...
LINGUSTICS

Derivation of a Sentence

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A phrase structure gramma...
LANGUAGE

Reading

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Reading may be defined as...
LINGUSTICS

Limitations of Phrase Structure Grammar

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The processes that pose p...
LANGUAGE

Statement to Question

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Turning a statement into ...
LINGUSTICS

The Constituent Structure

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The PS grammar is an alte...
LANGUAGE

Writing a Good Essay

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An essay is a composition...
LINGUSTICS

Phrase Structure Grammar

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The second of Chomsky's '...
LANGUAGE

Phrasal Verbs

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A phrasal verb combines t...
LINGUSTICS

Generative Grammar

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Generative grammar, a ver...
LANGUAGE

The Essay

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There are different kinds...
LINGUSTICS

IC Analysis: Advantages and Limitations

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Immediate Constituent Ana...
LANGUAGE

Idioms

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Every language has its id...
LINGUSTICS

IC Analysis of Sentences

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A single sentence compris...
LANGUAGE

Guidelines to Paragraph Writing

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Developing an effective...
LINGUSTICS

The Gleason Method 

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The Gleason Method in lin...
LANGUAGE

Confusing Words

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Everyone knows the proble...
LINGUSTICS

Labelled IC Analysis

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Immediate Constituent ana...
LANGUAGE

Strategies in Paragraph Writing

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Writing a paragraph means...
LANGUAGE

Homophone

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Homophone is Greek for th...
LINGUSTICS

Immediate Constituent Analysis

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The advent of generative ...
LANGUAGE

Paragraph Features

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A paragraph is a collec...
LINGUSTICS

The Structuralist View of Grammar

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The beginning of the 2...
LANGUAGE

One-word Substitutes

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One-word substitution is ...
LINGUSTICS

The ‘Bloomfieldians’

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Linguistics in the Unit...
LANGUAGE

Paragraph Writing

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Originating from the a...
LINGUSTICS

Modern Linguisitics: Aims and Attitudes

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Linguistics is commonl...
LINGUSTICS

Basic Sentence Patterns

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A Basic or a Kernel s...
LANGUAGE

The Writing Process

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A simple, lucid writin...
LINGUSTICS

Strong and Weak Forms

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Words are mainly divided ...
PROSE

Pamela or Virtue Rewarded

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Pamela or Virtue Rewarded...
LANGUAGE

Synonyms

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Synonyms are different wo...
POETRY

Poem in October

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Poem in October is a beau...
PROSE

Religio Medici

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Religio Medici, or The Re...
LINGUSTICS

Syntax

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The syntax is the gra...
LANGUAGE

Fundamentals of Writing

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Writing may be defined ...
PROSE

A Delightful Hodgepodge

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The Alice books mingle hu...
LANGUAGE

Teaching Grammar

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There is a strong relat...
LANGUAGE

Teaching Prose

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Teaching prose is mainl...
LANGUAGE

Teaching Poetry

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Poetry contains the bes...
LINGUSTICS

Hyponymy

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In linguistics, a hyponym...
LANGUAGE

Teaching Literature

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Literature studies the ...
LANGUAGE

The Lesson Plan

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Teaching is a complex tas...
PROSE

Alice in Wonderland

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Alice's Adventures in Won...
LANGUAGE

Antonymy

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Antonyms are words that h...
PROSE

Ecclesiastes

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Ecclesiastes is a book ...
PROSE

What I Believe

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E M Forster is primaril...
LANGUAGE

Homonym

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Homonymy refers to a li...
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. This website is a collection of lecture notes she prepared by referring to various sources for her students’ perusal.
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