Social Injustice Tormented the Psyche of Parentless Children

This study explores how social injustice affects the characters of the three parentless children in the novel Jazz, which tells the story of a triangular love. This chapter highlights civil rights movements which impact on black people and future generations. It is the story about the three parentless children who suffer because of the lack of parent's guidance. Morrison tries to instill the importance of mothers by depicting the lives of the three orphaned protagonists and how they meet with a fatal end.

Robotics for Education

This chapter focuses on the applications of robotics in the field of education. It discusses the scope for growth and improvement in the models of the robots currently in use. It deals with the current scenario regarding the implementation of a thought that can help in making the future of learning efficient, effective, and interesting. It also allows insight on the role of teachers in integrating this concept in the classrooms. It describes the future of merging AI in the regular classroom to make the process of teaching and learning easier and enjoyable.

iGeneration Methodology

This chapter aims at analyzing the effective teaching methodology for the iGeneration students who learn English as a second language. iGeneration students are the students who are born in between 1995 to 2012. As the iGeneration students are not interested in reading books, there has to be another method which can be used to teach them. This generation of students are using the technology effectively. The teachers who teach English for the students have to adopt a new method. To find out the best method for English language teaching, 150 students were taken for the research. They were divided into three sections namely A, B, and C sections. Each section was taught with different methods. At last, a test was conducted for all the students and marks were awarded for the test. Based on the marks scored by the students, it is found that audio-visual method was effective for learning English language.

Intra-Personal Emotional Intelligence Among College Students in Vellore District of Tamil Nadu

The competency of individuals to distinguish their own emotions and those of others is known as emotional intelligence. It is the “ability of an individual to accomplish and control his or her emotions and own the capacity to control the emotions of others as well.” There are four branch models of enthusiastic insight that portrays capacities of different zones of emotional intelligence. First one being the perceiving emotions; it is the expression of emotions in a non-verbal reception; using emotions; use of emotions to facilitate thoughts; understanding emotions: where emotions convey information; managing emotions: emotions are managed and understood to convey information. This study focuses on the intrapersonal emotional intelligence which is the basis for interpersonal emotional intelligence. The aspects viz., understanding emotions, managing emotions, intrinsic motivation building, and zeal are studied. The study attempts to identify the factors of emotions present in the college students so as to help them to build an effective intrapersonal emotional intelligence.

From Lexis to Discourse

Any exercise of structuring written or spoken discourse starts from Lexis, the most basic unit of communication. We may call it the initiator of discourse. Despite considerable efforts made towards developing the word power of the ESL learners, they face difficulty in using the vocabulary appropriately in a variety of socio-cultural contexts in which they are required to operate. The present chapter attempts to demonstrate how this five-stage pedagogy will enhance learner's ability to make use of the available lexical items in authentic situations so as to produce meaningful discourse. The proposed pedagogy is the result of our experiment with authentic sample of students and language exercises. The five-stage pedagogy comprises the following stages:

Counter-Narratives

The term ‘narrative' has attained a contemporary connotation of identity tales and has stepped outside the bounds of literature to enter into realms of sociology, anthropology, law, and even medicine. Narrative is not just the medium used by writers to tell their stories, but also a powerful tool of self-expression, with a strong reference to individual stories set in a significant cultural background. This nature of narrative has been observed in one of the most significant African American writers of the modern era – Toni Morrison. With the rise of in-betweenness and the need for a space to emerge as an individual identity, it is important for people to create narratives to counter prevalent dominant narratives.

A Derivative Approach Towards Activity-Centred Language Teaching

A whole language approach is an educational philosophy, different activities and strategies create meaning to learning. Theoretical view of teaching in a classroom has helped to partially target on formal and informal styles of learning. E-learning has overtaken the traditional to be the best source. Thus, in this chapter, is described the different aspects, which when incorporated, makes learning not only easy but focused. It teaches the teachers and students to be engaged in the process of learning without stress and prepares the personality involved in the process of teaching and learning to be aware of certain remedies so that the platform may be conducive for education. Active and passive learning, cognitive, psychological, and biological aspects taken into consideration show how they are involved to create serious understanding to make the teaching process valuable.

NLP Technique

Listening skill is an important employability skill that helps learners comprehend any piece of information. The study aims at developing the listening skill of students at the tertiary level. As listening has been neglected in language learning and teaching and students are not much exposed to listening skill, the researcher has focused on developing the listening skill of students. The researcher has attempted to carry out a pilot study with a group of twenty students in order to assess the efficacy of NLP technique in developing listening skill. It was found that NLP technique is quite useful in improving listening skill. At the end of the study, it has been found that NLP is an appropriate tool and it can be used for further study with regard to developing the listening skill of students.

Classroom Experiments and Experience Using Skill Genie

The teaching learning process in every domain keeps changing abreast to academic and industrial practises. Other than knowledge, the acquisition of skill sets is demanded nowadays. The present generation may be a computer wizard, a scientific mastermind or a technocrat, but they are expected to possess a good skill set. To be successful, subject expertise alone is not enough. In this context, the Higher Education Department, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh has published a Student's Hand Book Skill Genie (SHBSG -2016). A very laudable attempt and this move certainly helps students to refine their communicative competency and soft skills which absolutely increases their employability quotient. This chapter reviewed the appropriateness and usefulness of the book through a select lesson and the authors of this research paper wanted to share the class room experiments and anew experience which they tried in an academic setting with III ECE “A” (2017 -2021 batch), Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi. In addition to that, this chapter appraises Skill Genie (SG) as well.

The Demand of Employable Soft Skills for the IT Industry

The present empirical research has been carried out in response to the e-mails received from reputed IT industry HR personnel with regard to the behaviour and soft skills issues of the newly recruited students from the working institution of the author. The present research aimed to identify the employable soft skills through survey questionnaire which again gives the opportunity to know the gaps between the soft skills taught in various engineering institutions of Andhra Pradesh and skills required for the IT jobs. Further, a structured questionnaire was administered to HR personnel of select reputed IT companies who take part in campus drives. The data has been statistically analyzed based on which the viable suggestions are provided to the engineering institutions to train students in soft skills for better employability prospects in IT Industry.