• HEARING IT FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH: ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ABOUT TECHNICAL WRITING AND ACADEMIC LITERACY SKILLS

Dr. Tsaona Seitsiwe Mokgwathi & B. E. Otlhomile

Abstract: This paper discusses the undergraduate Engineering students’ perceptions about the Technical Writing and Academic Literacy Course at a technical university. The study solicited the views of the students concerning the course to enable the researchers to better address students ‘needs.

• OLD WIDOWS & WOODROSES: A REFERENCE TO THE SHORT STORIES OF CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI, ANITA DESAI, & ABBURI CHAYA DEVI

Dr Hampamma Gongadi

Abstract: In the patriarchal Hindu society the identity of women is always determined by her husband. A widower is allowed to remarry, but a widow is not even allowed to dream of it. Even in the modern educated middle class families, the identity of widows is definitely at stake. In many cases, they even lose their economic freedom.

• E-LEARNING AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Ms. K.Guejalatchoumy and Dr. Shanthi Simon

Abstract: Many academicians have described the growth of electronic learning as explosive, unprecedented, amazing and disruptive. In fact, there are those who claim that electronic learning is unique and is the beginning of a new era of distance education.

• E-LEARNING AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Ms. K.Guejalatchoumy and Dr. Shanthi Simon

Abstract: Many academicians have described the growth of electronic learning as explosive, unprecedented, amazing and disruptive. In fact, there are those who claim that electronic learning is unique and is the beginning of a new era of distance education. Regardless of the rhetoric, what has changed is ‘the speed and power of communications and the expanded capacity to send, receive and use information and the capacity to bridge time and space for educational purposes’.