Indus Institute of Sciences, Humanities & Liberal Studies
Department of Languages
One-Week International Workshop
Teaching Language Through Literature

9^th – 14^th August’21

The Department of Languages organizes One Week International Workshop on Teaching Language Through Literature for Post-Graduate program in Master of Arts (ELT) from 9^th August – 14^th August 2021 at Institute of Sciences, Humanities & Liberal Studies, Indus University. 

Day 1

Day One of the Workshop was graced by Dr. Shyaonti Talwar, Master Trainer from Cambridge.  Dr. Talwar is not only a professor of English at Pune University but also someone who has trained extensively across India for British Council Connecting Classrooms, conducting principal and teacher training workshops on 21st century core skills that include Critical Thinking, Creativity and Communication, Student Leadership and Digital Literacy. Her interactive session gave students practical understanding through fun-activities to use literature for teaching language. Dr. Talwar is also a senior presenter of Cambridge English Assessment, a division of the University of Cambridge UK and conducts Teacher Support Programmes (TSP) and principal and coordinator seminars on Cambridge English Exams and other areas of ELT.  It has been a matter of honour that a resource person of this stature consented to interacting with the students of Indus University. 

The program was also graced by the presence of Dr. Sandeep Chakravorty, Dean Academics IU who encouraged students to achieve optimum benefit out of such noteworthy initiatives by the Department of Languages.  Dr. Mamta Pillai, Head of the Department briefed about the line-up of resource persons ahead during the week from reputed institutions of India and abroad starting from ELFU Lucknow, Shiv Nadar University Chennai, Central University of Tamil Nadu, National Institute of Technology Himachal Pradesh, GLS University Gujarat to Cambridge and Michigan State University in United States of America. It is indeed a matter of pride for the Department of Languages to have organized a week-long National Workshop followed by an International Workshop in a span of one year to train the next generation of ELT professionals.