CONFERENCES, SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS

·    Conducted a webinar on ‘Understanding language use for academic purposes’ organized by the department of English of Padmavathi Mahila University, Tirupati (19 December 2020)

·   Invited speaker for the national seminar on “Designing ELT” conducted by Netaji Open University (NSOU) Kolkata (5 July 2020)

·   Delivered an invited lecture on “Pandemics and Proxemics: Effective Language Teaching and Learning      Strategies” in the International Webinar on “Pandemic Pedagogy: Issues and Challenges” organized by the   Department of English, Maharaja Bir Bikram University, Agartala, Tripura on July 24, 2020

·       Completed an 18 hour Oxford Teachers’ Academy Course on “Mentoring Skills” in December 2018.

 

·    Conducted a two-day ESP Workshop  for 120 Native and Non-native speaker teachers of English at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia in December 2017.

 

·       Participated in a one day workshop on Multiple Choice Item Writing, in line with Bloom’s Taxonomy conducted by Oxford University Press on 18 November 2017.

 

·       Participated in a 5 day workshop on Practical Methods for Teaching Pronunciation by Mr Adrian Underhill, Using Corpora in the ESP Classroom by Prof Randi Reppen, and Motivating Students to Success by Dr. Jennifer Fennema-Bloom from 04/02/2017 to 08/02/2017 at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia.

 

·       Attended the Fifth British Council and EFLU Teacher Educator International Conference as a speaker held between 27 February 2015 and 1 March 2015.

 

·       Conducted 4 Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs) in VIT University in October 2014 on Quality Improvement for Academic Writing.

 

Topic 1: Academic Writing Tools for Research

Topic 2: Dictionaries for Speaking and Writing; Mastering Terminology

Topic 3: Conceptualizing ELT Research Problems (Part of of FDPs tilted      Research in ELT)

Topic 4: Academic Writing: Wordandphrase. Info

 

·       Attended a five day workshop on Recent Trends in English Language Teaching (ELT) as a resource person conducted by the Central University of Tamil Nadu on 26 January 2015. The other resource persons for the workshop include the eminent professors such as Prof. Balasubramnyam (Phonetician), Prof GeethaDurairajan (Testing and Evaluation), and Prof. G Rajagopal (ESL and Bilingualism).

 

·       Attended and presented a paper entitled “Examples in learner’s dictionaries”in the UGC sponsored two-day National Conference on ‘Strengthening English Language and Learning: Issues and Challenges’ in June 2014. The paper was later published Conference Proceedings

 

·       Attended a one day National Conference on ELT and Soft skills on 27 April 2014 at Sri Venkateswara University Tirupati.

 

·       Attended a workshop on English Language Teaching (ELT) as a resource person conducted by the Central University of Tamil Nadu on 10 March 2014

 

·       Presented a paper titled Synchronous Corpus-Mediated Learner’s Dictionary Exploration: A Technique to Vocabulary Learningin the EFLU-ELE Spectrum 2012

 

·       Conducted a one day workshop on Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) in the EFL University in March 2012

 

·       Attended a five day workshop on Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) in 2012 February. The workshop was conducted by British Council

 

·       Presented a paper titled “ICT (Information Communication Technology) for Materials Development” in the British Council and EFLU International Conference on ‘Starting, Stimulating, and Sustaining Teaching’ in Hyderabad in 2011

 

·       Presented a paper titled “Data-driven Approaches to ESP: A Case for Using Corpora in Teaching Form”,in NCESP-2011 (National Conference on ESP) in Krishna University Vijayawada

 

·       Presented a paper titled “Redefining Vocabulary Goals for Undergraduate Students” in November, 2009. The seminar was attended by more than 200 delegates from universities across the country.

 

·       Presented a paper titled “On Arriving at a Wordlist for Teaching Vocabulary for Engineering Students” in December 2009 in All India Conference of Linguistics (AICL- 34) in University of Hyderabad

 

·       Presented the paper titled “Corpora and Language Teaching: Implications for Teacher Education” in the National Seminar on Quality Education held at The EFL University, Hyderabad in November 2009. The seminar was attended by more than 150 students from more than 10 countries

 

·       Participated in a “Workshop on Research Methodology in Arts and Sciences”held at the Osmania University in March 2010. The workshop was attended by more than 150 delegates