Linguistic Empowerment Cell

Jawaharlal Nehru University

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Guest Faculty Profile

Garima Dalal trained in Teacher Support Programme by the British Council has been teaching English language and Literature for the past 7 years in various universities like JNU, JMI and DU. With M.A. degrees in English & Linguistics, M. Phil on Language Pedagogy and Ph. D on acquisition of acoustic space, she has been a resource person in many organizations and presented papers in national and International conferences.        <garimadalal@gmail.com>

Madri Kakoti is a research scholar at the Center for Linguistics, SLL&CS, JNU. She graduated in English from Indraprastha College, DU with First Class Honours, and joined JNU as a student of International Relations. Masters in IR (2009) and in Linguistics (2011) with a JRF award, she has participated in two international conferences.  Her innovative techniques help to channelize the energy of the students towards reaching their goals. <madrikakoti@gmail.com>

Sandesha Rayapa Garbiyal with an M.A. (Linguistics) & registered for her Ph.D. in JNU, has a decade's experience in planning and developing curriculum in both ESL/EFL scenarios. A guest faculty at IIT and JNU, she has been an IELTS, GMAT and Voice & Accent trainer using AV aids & language labs. She is committed to run positive, focused and energised classes aimed at helping students to achieve their maximum potential. <sandesha.rayapa@gmail.com>

Shahnaz Samantara, a multi-faceted faculty has an M.A. (English) from Ravenshaw University, M.Phil and PH.D (English) from Utkal University.  As an educationist, she has held positions of a Lecturer, school Principal, ELT consultant and has also taught English as a second language through Indian Sign Language at IGNOU.  She has also been a presenter at A.I.R and Doordarshan and has worked as Senior Project Consultant with ISLRTC, IGNOU. <onlyshahs@yahoo.co.in>

Varalakshmi Chaudhry with an M.A (English) from Andhra University; PGDTE, M. Phil, and Pre Ph. D (ELT) from EFLU and Ph. D (Linguistics) from JNU, has experience of 15 years  of teaching ESL. She is Guest Faculty at the Centre for Linguistics, JNU and at IIT Delhi. She has published 11 articles, 4 books & presented 22 papers, and organized four workshops. She has also taught GRE, GMAT, SAT, TOEFL & IELTS. <varalakshmichaudhry@yahoo.co.in>