Workshop on ‘ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS’

A Workshop for Manav Rachna International Schools English language teachers on ‘English Language Skills’ was organized by Faculty of Media Studies and Humanities at Manav Rachna International University, Faridabad.

Three sessions were held during the workshop. In the first session, Language skills and vocabulary building strategy was dealt in detail by Dr. Harbir Kaur Arora, Professor and HOD, Department of English, FMeH. Exercises were also undertaken by the participants.

The second session was on verbal communication skills specially on how to plan and deliver a presentation. It was taken by Dr. Neemo Dhar, Dean-FMeH. In this session after the initial deliberation on how to make a presentation, a psychometric exercise to assess the communication skills of participants was also conducted. The third session taken by Dr. Harbir Kaur Arora dwelt in detail on Phonetics which comprise strategy, detailed pronunciation, nuisances of English sounds, particularly International phonetics symbols (IPA symbols), etc. Handouts comprising exercises and a detailed information on IPA sounds (Phonetics sounds) were given to participants.

Around 25 participants comprising teachers and students of MA (English) and BA-JMC were there. A feedback of the teachers was also taken and was rated fruitful by participants.