{"id":127616,"date":"2020-06-09T02:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T21:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=127616"},"modified":"2020-06-09T02:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T21:12:36","slug":"webinar-on-english-language-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/06\/09\/webinar-on-english-language-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar on English language held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jun 8:<\/strong> The Himalayan University (HU) here, in association with Aligarh-based Mangalayatan University (MU) and Ranchi-based Usha Martin University (UMU) on Monday organized a webinar on &#8216;English for special purpose and academic writing&#8217;.<br \/>\nUMU vice chancellor, Dr Suresh Garg, who inaugurated the webinar, commended the HU &#8220;for this academic endeavour of sharing ideas and knowledge with students and faculty fraternity through webinars.&#8221;<br \/>\nHU assistant professor, Dr Doi Ette spoke on &#8220;the role of the Northeast in English literature,&#8221; focusing on writings from the region and the &#8220;representation of identity in the work of the Northeast writers.&#8221;<br \/>\nShe quoted renowned authors of the Northeast, such as Mamang Dai, Srutimala Dauara, Sanjay Hazarika, and others.<br \/>\nDr Farah Khan from MU advocated &#8220;using English as per audience,&#8221; and said &#8220;our language should be supported by our positive body language and body gestures.&#8221;<br \/>\nDr Prakash Chand Panda from UMU stressed the role of &#8220;word rate, voice tone, pitch, verbal tics, volume and enunciation,&#8221; and added that &#8220;pause&#8221; also plays an important role in communication, citing the example of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who used pauses to great effect.<br \/>\nDr Shimpi Kumar Chaturvedi from UMU spoke on communication and the English language. &#8220;English can change life and melt the cultural barriers,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\nHU registrar, Dr Vivek Mittal also spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jun 8: The Himalayan University (HU) here, in association with Aligarh-based Mangalayatan University (MU) and Ranchi-based Usha Martin University (UMU) on Monday organized a webinar on &#8216;English for special purpose and academic writing&#8217;. UMU vice chancellor, Dr Suresh Garg, who inaugurated the webinar, commended the HU &#8220;for this academic endeavour of sharing ideas and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-127616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}