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                                                           FORTELL Issue No.34, January 2017
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                                                  Journal of English Language and Literature
                                                  Coordinating Editor  
                                                  A.L.Khanna 
                                                  Editors 
                                                  Rachna Sethi, Ravinarayan Chakrakodi
                                                  Editorial Committee 
                                                  Manjari Chaturvedi,  Gitanjali 
                                                  Chawla,  Ruchi Kaushik, Rachna Sethi,  
                                                  Tasneem Shahnaaz,  C.Nisha Singh,  
                                                  Mona Sinha, Prem Kumari Srivastava                                Journal of 
                                                  Advisory Board                                                    Teaching English 
                                                  R.K. Agnihotri, Formerly at 
                                                  Department of Linguistics, University                             Language and Literature   
                                                  of Delhi, Delhi 
                                                  Mohd. Asaduddin, Department of 
                                                  English, Faculty of Humanities and 
                                                  Languages, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi 
                                                  Rod Bolitho, Academic Director 
                                                  of Norwich Institute for Language 
                                                  Education, Norwich, United Kingdom 
                                                  R.W. Desai, Formerly at Department 
                                                  of English, University of Delhi, Delhi,
                                                  Geetha Durairajan, Department of 
                                                  Testing and Evaluation, School of 
                                                  English Language Evaluation, English 
                                                  and Foreign Languages University, 
                                                  Hyderabad, Telengana 
                                                  GJV Prasad, Centre for English 
                                                  Studies, School of Language, 
                                                  Literature and Culture Studies, 
                                                  Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi 
                                                  Jacob Tharu, Formerly at Department 
                                                  of Testing and Evaluation, English 
                                                  and Foreign Languages University, 
                                                  Hyderabad, Telengana 
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          Selecting English Language Materials: Some Factors to Consider            66                                                                              From the Editorial Desk 
          Devupalli Vishwa Prasad
                                                                                                                  Writing is an important part of communication. Though we live in a digital world, writing 
          Was it Really for  her? Gendered  Perspectives on  Nationalism            71                            skills still play a predominant role. Text messages, social media posts, emails, blog entries, 
          Neha Gaur                                                                                               etc., are all ways of communicating. Writing, whether by hand or with a keypad, still plays 
                                                                                                                  an important role in the social, professional and academic contexts of our lives. One of the 
                                                                                    77                            most challenging tasks in the classroom has been the teaching of writing skills. Teaching 
          The Development of Theoretical Principles of Dalit Literature                                           writing is challenging because when students produce a piece of writing, they have to deal 
          Vikas Singh and Vikas Jain                                                                              with many different elements such as content, syntax, grammar, mechanics, word choice 
                                                                                                                  and organization. The theoretical perspectives as applied to the teaching of writing, the 
          Interview                                                                                               challenges faced in the teaching and learning of writing skills and the options available 
                                                                                                                  to teachers are the focus in this issue of FORTELL. To engage the interests of readers and 
          Rachna Sethi in Conversation with Professor Christel R                    83                            contributors alike, we have also addressed other concerns of English language and literature 
          Devadawson                                                                                              through articles, book reviews and an interview with Professor Christel R. Devadawson. 
          Book Reviews                                                                                            Nivedita V. Bedadur lays emphasis on using authentic material to teach writing in her article. 
                                                                                                                  She argues that in the product approach, the writer is not involved and hence the write-up 
          Review of Chakrakodi’s Learn English Teach English:  English              88                            lacks a distinctive voice. On the other hand, in the process method called CODER, writing 
          Skills for Teachers                                                                                     is more important than spellings, layouts and standards of correctness. Like Bedadur, Deepti 
          Santosh Mahapatra                                                                                       Chawla also gives importance to the use of authentic material. She discusses that wrappers, 
                                                                                                                  menu cards, metro time tables and flyers can be used to create a print rich environment in 
                                                                                                                  the classroom; not only will this aid learning, but it will also provide the learners with a 
          In Which Margaret Atwood Revisits Shakespeare’s Brave New                 90                            connect with life rather than reproducing in writing things learnt by rote.
          World: A Review of Atwood’s Hag-Seed                                                                    In S. C. Sood’s article, process and genre-based approaches to teaching writing have 
          Saloni Sharma                                                                                           been discussed and the experiences of L2 students in writing various genres have been 
                                                                                                                  examined. Divya John looks at the advantages of free writing in increasing the speed as 
          Language Activities                                                                                     well as the thought process in writing based on her experiences with a group of students in 
                                                                                                                  an engineering course. Yasmeen Lukmani reveals the inadequacies in student writing that 
          Activities for the Language Classroom                                     92                            constrain the meaning. She also looks into the different factors that subject teachers and 
          Nupur Samuel                                                                                            English teachers consider as important when marking student scripts.
                                                                                                                  Prachi Kalra picks up on a problem frequently encountered by teachers, that of children 
          Reports                                                                                                 being reluctant writers. She emphasizes that talking, reading and writing go hand in hand, 
          Talk on Indian Classical Literature at Rajdhani College                   96                            and stresses on the need to move beyond the focus on rigid format, and instead feels the 
                                                                                                                  students should be encouraged to look for a form which fits their functional purpose. Like 
          Varsha Gupta                                                                                            Kalra, Kirti Kapur gives importance to process writing, to encourage thinking and learning. 
                                                                                                                  She opines that right from content selection to the production of the final draft, critical 
          Writing With a Purpose: Annual Lecture at MAC                             97                            thinking and writing go hand-in-hand. 
          Sangeeta Mittal                                                                                         Lina Mukhopadhyay takes the idea of teaching writing further by discussing the usefulness 
                                                                                                                  of feedback to appreciate what the learner has achieved. She provides various suggestions 
                                                                                                                  to enable learning through pedagogic feedback, both direct and indirect, and makes a 
                                                                                                                  case for keeping a record of student growth across sub-skills. In their paper, Bhaskar and 
                                                                                                                  Paliwal approach the problem of resistance of the students towards writing, and suggest 
                                                                                                                  that unconscious translation from L1 to L2 must not be rejected. The writers propose 
                                                                                                                  that an understanding of the processes and procedures of translation be used for language 
                                                                                                                  acquisition and supporting the writing skills of L2 learners. 
                                                                                                                  Rajni Singh and Sanjiv Kumar Choudhary move away from the issue of writing to examine 
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