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Using ICT for Learning the Punjabi Language: A Case Study

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Sandeep Kaur

Lovely Professional University. Email: Sandeep.17245@lpu.co.in

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n1.32

Received January 19, 2017; Revised April 28, 2017; Accepted April 30, 2017; Published May 7, 2017.

Abstract

In the context of the relevance of regional languages in modern era, many modern tools have come into circulation. ICT has so for not been introduced in the realm of regional languages properly. It is widely assumed that computer based programs, software and web links do not support students in their learning of Punjabi.  However, this paper offers a contesting yet positive view. This study is designed to prove that laptop, mobile phones, internet- connectivity and projector based learning is very effective for students in learning of Punjabi. This research paper is based on findings of qualitative nature. For this research purpose case studies have been used. Questionnaires are used to collect data. Data are analysed by using descriptive numerical techniques made to express frequency, percentage and mean. On the basis of findings few suggestions are made.

 Keywords:  Pedagogy, Learning, Language, ICT, Skills, technology.

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Professional identity for successful adaptation of students – a participative approach

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Galina Akhmetovna Gertsog,1 Viktoriya Valerievna Danilova,2  Dmitry Nikolayevich Korneev,3 Aleksey Viktorovich Savchenkov,4 Nataliya Viktorovna Uvarina5

1, 3, 4, 5Southern Ural state Humanitarian and Pedagogical University, Chelyabinsk, the Russian Federation

2Kostanay State Pedagogical Institute, Kazakhstan. Email: nuvarina@yandex.ru

Volume 9, Number 1, 2017 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n1.30

Received February 10, 2017; Revised April 16, 2017; Accepted April 27, 2017; Published May 5, 2017.

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It is stated that in the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan as well as throughout the world the crisis of personal identity has become a big problem due to globalization in the society and multifaceted participation of people in social processes.  The article deals with the analysis of the concept of professional identity of the student on the basis of participative approach.  Professional identity is viewed as the main criterion and result of the student’s successful adaption to the learning environment, professional and creative activities as well as to changing social and cultural conditions.  The authors advocate for the proposition that the professional identity being the element of social and cultural identity allows students to overcome the state of anxiety, lack of confidence, tension, and dissatisfaction presenting the obstacles to the process of adaption to the changing conditions in the globalised world. The authors assume that   the study of the stated phenomenon of professional identification on the theoretical and empirical levels will allow implementing innovational technologies of coherent cooperation of social and cultural environment of the higher educational institution having impact on the professional growth of students. Professional identity is presented within the framework of both individuality and group.

 Key words: adaptation, participation, globalization, identity, professional identity, socialization, transformation.

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“On the edge of Siberia…”: Russian Old Timers in Some Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Writings

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Julia G. Khazankovich

M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Bld. 42, Kulakovsky St., Yakutsk, 677000, Russia. Email: hazankovich33@mail.ru

Volume 9, Number 1, 2017 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n1.19

Received February 21, 2017; Revised April 17, 2017; Accepted April 20, 2017; Published May 7, 2017.

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Autochthonous world of the Arctic aboriginal peoples is traditionally associated with the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North – Yukaghirs, Chukchis, Evenks, and other ethnic groups including Russian old-timers (russkoustintsy and pokhodchane). Though being Russian in terms of language and ethnic identity, they are legally incorporated in Yakutia to the same category for being culturally close to the traditional cultures of the indigenous peoples of the North. The relevance of invoking this theme is due to the need for non-ideological interpretation of the problem concerned “Russian world”, which is a cultural and historical concept of the community that is engaged by its adherence to Russia, as well as to the Russian language and culture. Studying the essays by Valentin Rasputin, in particular, his essay “Russkoye Ustye”, as well as the book “Next to the Ice on the Edge of Oecumena: Russkoye Ustye. Return to Roots”, whose compiling editor is an old-timer, Russians’ descendant Igor Chikachyov, enables us to analyse the topic from the perspective of hermeneutic approach. Identifying the historical and aesthetic context of the essay by V. Rasputin and the book of Igor Chikachev about the culture of Russian old-timers of the Arctic allows drawing conclusion that their content was inspired by the search, the acquisition, and the postulation of existential foundations of Russian national mentality. Rasputin’s interest towards the culture of Russkoye Ustye, his meeting with the Russian old-timer Alexey Chikachyov allowed the writer to include in the essay his own ideological codes; to turn spatial and temporal realities into aesthetic coordinates (river, the Indigirka, the village of Russkyoe Ustye, tundra-sendukha).

 ?eywords: Arctic, Yakutia, Siberia, Russian old-timers, V. Rasputin, Chikachyov, essay, the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North.

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The Normativity of the Russian Language in the Light of Ecological Linguistics and Social Processes in Contemporary Russian Society

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E. G. Kulikova & L. A. Brusenskaya

Rostov State University of Economics, 69 Bolshaya Sadovaya Str., Rostov-on-Don, 344002, Russia. Email: kulikova_ella21@mail.ru

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n1.31

Received February 10, 2017; Revised March 16, 2017; Accepted March 17, 2017; Published May 5, 2017.

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Normative mechanisms in modern Russian society have been intensively changed, and this creates a real problem for the normalization process. The study of this problem refers to the current problems of the norm theory. The article is devoted to the investigation of normativity in the light of ecological linguistics, the origins of normativity and the principles of normativity valuation. Destabilizing factors in the development of the modern Russian language, according to the authors of the article are manipulation, verbal aggression as well as excessive foreign borrowings, slang, which displace native words of the literary language, which have a huge linguistic and cultural potential and convey important ethical concepts. Regulatory processes are being considered from the point of view of language-homeostasis that gives an opportunity to value some phenomenon as constructive or destructive one in terms of ability to survive.

Keywords: language ecology, linguistic ecology, language norm, rhetorical norm, the modern communicative situation, substandard, borrowing

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Exploring the Factors and Effects of Alcohol Abuse on the Behaviour of University Female Students at one South African University Campus

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 J. G. Kheswa & V. N. Hoho

Department of Psychology, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, Alice, 5700, South Africa. Email: jkheswa@ufh.ac.za

Volume 9, Number 1, 2017 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n1.29

Received February 10, 2017; Revised March 16, 2017; Accepted March 17, 2017; Published May 5, 2017.

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The aim of this study was to determine the factors and effects of alcohol abuse on the behaviour of female students at one South African university campus, Eastern Cape Province. This paper is underpinned by (1) alcohol myopia theory which is based on the notion that alcohol intoxication restricts information processing and (2) social exchange theory which posits that females tend to enter into sexual relationships characterized by benefits. In a qualitative study conducted, twelve Xhosa-speaking respondents, aged 18 to 24 years, were interviewed. Ethics were adhered to throughout the research process. The following themes were identified, namely; transactional sex, gender- based violence, peer-pressure, financial support, stigma and discrimination, pregnancy and abortion. The recommendations propose that the universities should have partnership with the Police Services in protecting the human rights of students and provide more residents for female students to curb cohabitation.

Keywords:  Abortion, Drugs, Sexual promiscuity, Poverty, Violence.

 

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Exploring Black Student Teacher Motivation for Community Service Involvement

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Siphokazi Kwatubana & Melody Nosisa Mtimkulu

School of Educational Sciences, North West University, South Africa. Email: Sipho.Kwatubana@nwu.ac.za

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n1.28

Received February 10, 2017; Revised April 21, 2017; Accepted April 25, 2017; Published May 7, 2017.

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Research in South Africa has paid little attention to black student motivation for voluntary community-service engagement. Motivation for community service engagement is probably the most important factor for student teachers, for consistent, sustainable service to their communities. The focus of this study was to investigate the motives of black student teachers’ continued voluntary engagement after being exposed to community service learning. Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with 4th year students to gather data. Inductive, content analysis was conducted to determine themes. We established that students are motivated by several factors that are self and externally directed — promoted by the availability of service opportunities in their environments. These motivational factors may also be individualistic and or collectivistic orientated. The factors that motivate students have implications for how institutions of higher learning develop their programmes for community service engagement for student teachers.

Keywords: community service in universities, exposure to community service, service learning, involvement for self-benefit, altruism

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Language Acquisition of Korean Children in an Indian Multilingual Society

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Swati Priya1 & Rajni Singh2

1Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT (ISM), Dhanbad. Email: swati.jha@hotmail.com
2Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT (ISM), Dhanbad.at IIT (ISM), Dhanbad, India. ORCID: http://orchid.org/0000-0002-1569-8339. Email: rajnisingh18@gmail.com.

Volume 9, Number 1, 2017 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n1.27

Received February 10, 2017; Revised April 21, 2017; Accepted April 25, 2017; Published May 7, 2017.

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 Indian society is linguistically diverse. There are multiple languages that are spoken in India. Small children have the capacity to learn language at a faster rate as compared to the adult. Language acquisition occurring in a particular context and differing environment are bound to influence the way language is learned and used by the young children. The children who are born and growing up in a linguistically diverse country like India are bound to have a different experience than those who encounter only one language. All these conditions will eventually have a profound impact on the social, linguistic and cognitive development of children. The present study has been focused on 12 Korean children who are growing up in Indian multilingual society. Through this paper an attempt has been made to highlight that how the children acquire language and what are the rate of the acquisition of phonetic sounds of the languages that they are exposed to.

 Keywords: Multilingualism, Bilingualism, Phonetic and Phonemic sounds, Innateness, Behaviorism, Cognitive Development.

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NGO’s Role in Community Based Monitoring of Primary Health Care Services for Dalit Women in Urban Slums

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Sudeshna Mukherjee & Rashmi C.K

Centre for Women’s Studies, JnanaBharathi Campus, Bangalore University, Bangalore. Email: sudeshna_socio@rediffmail.com

Volume 9, Number 1, 2017 I Full Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n1.26

Received February 15, 2017; Revised April 15, 2017; Accepted April 20, 2017; Published May 7, 2017.

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The discrimination and denial of health care is hardly recognised as a problem deserving attention. Being Dalit in India seriously impairs capabilities of persons to function in society. As one stands at the bottom of the social ladder, one’s risk of suffering premature death, poor health, and a lack of treatment and care is substantially higher than it is for the one with better socio economic position. (Vani etal; 2015, pp- 258). Dalit women are the vulnerable, the marginalised and the poor. With increasing urbanisation and migration, more and more dalit women are forced to live in abject poverty in the overcrowded slums. They are further rendered vulnerable to ill health, due to prevalent discriminatory practices found at the public health sector.  This paper presents a Case study of a Bangalore based NGO, “Society for Peoples Action for Development (SPAD)”, who initiated the strategic intervention with Dalit women in Bangalore slums to achieve Community Based Monitoring (CBM) at the public health sector for the improved access to health services – a key strategy employed by the National Health Mission to ensure that health services to reach those for whom they are meant (Garg and Laskar 2010).

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Declining of Tuloni Biya: a Case Study

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Sangeeta Das

Centre for the Study of Social Systems,School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. ORCID ID: 0001-7858-0612. Email: sangeetadas.das762@gmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n1.25

Received February 15, 2017; Revised April 10, 2017; Accepted April 16, 2017; Published May 7, 2017.

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Assam had a tradition of public celebration of puberty, known as tuloni biya. Tuloni biya is  ceremonially symbolic to wedding which is celebrated seven days after a girl attains her puberty. In present times, however, one can hardly see any public celebration of puberty. This practice of celebration of tuloni biya has undergone significant changes. Celebration of puberty is becoming a close family affair from a public one.This paper, therefore, attempts to look at the continuities and change in the practice of celebrating tuloni biya among Assamese society. The findings reveal that rituals and restrictions associated with puberty is still in place. It is only the celebration that is dying away. It may, therefore, be argued that puberty and menstruation is now beginning to be seen as a taboo subject in Assamese society, and thereby is kept confidential.

Keywords: puberty, tuloni biya, Assamese society.

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Traumatic Memory and Legacy of Anxiety in Yvonne Vera’s Under the Tongue

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Shamaila Dodhy

University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. E-mail: shamailadodhy@yahoo.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n1.24

Received February 4, 2017; Revised April 11, 2017; Accepted April 15, 2017; Published May 7, 2017.

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In Under the Tongue, Yvonne Vera has described a traumatic event and depicts the difficulty, sometimes the impossibility, of transforming traumatic memory of the protagonist into narrative memory. This paper explores Vera’s attempt to present the survivor’s attempt to work through her painful memories, by articulating them in a monologue. She restructures accounts through the images picked up from the world of nature but when words come to her mind they lack sequential order to describe the extraordinary experience. The paper addresses a number of questions related to traumatic memory of a trauma survivor. This pain narrative is linked with the quest of the protagonist who struggles to come out of the state of trauma. It has been observed that in Zimbabwe the political and economic crisis went along with sexual violence against women. Through this aesthetic endeavor, Vera has protested against in-house abuse presented against the backdrop of fierce anti-colonial struggle.

Keywords:  anxiety; narrative; pain; silence; traumatic memory

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