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Intercultural communication What is Culture? Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. What is Intercultural? •       Pertaining to or taking place between two or more cultures. Intercultural Communication is an interdisciplinary field of research that studies how people understand each other across group boundaries of various sorts. Communication between different cultures and social groups. It is a field of research regarding people’s understanding across group boundaries of various sorts. e. g.- national, geographical, ethnic, occupation, class or gender.  According to Claire Kramsch intercultural communication in second language acquisition is acquired through authentic and legitimate discourse in the target language Share the same language + National Culture = TESOL’s Goal Various Sorts:             Gender        

Bilingualism is commonly defined as the use of at least two languages by an individual with the fluency characteristic of a native speaker. Degree of Bilingualism can be assessed in individual’s command of the four of: 1 Listening Comprehension 2 Speaking 3 Reading Comprehension 4 Writing in each language We must now that for people there is a practical need to speak both the languages of the region in which they live and the region in which they work because the pattern of BILINGUALISM is different societies according to context. Types of Bilingualism are:      1 )   Compound and Co-ordinate Bilingualism       2)  Addictive and Subtractive Bilingualism      3)   Simultaneous and Successive Bilingualism      4)     Elite and Folk Bilingualism      5) Balanced Bilingualism o    Co-ordinate Bilingualism tends to be developing through an experience of different contexts and compounds bilingualism tends to be developed through contexts such as f

  Interpretation of ten short modernist  poems Hello Readers, This blog is a part of our co-curricular activity of our department                  click this image to follow the link   Here is my interpretation of ten short poems ,   with modern metaphors and symbols. Characteristics of Modern Age: Meta-narrative Classical allusion Inter textual Free verse Open form Dislocation of meaning Breakdown of social norms Loss of faith Realism Rejection of old norms Meaninglessness Complex Reconstruction of new values 1.)   ‘The Embankment‘- T. E. Hulme Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy, In a flash of gold heels on the hard pavement. Now see I That warmth’s the very stuff of poesy. Oh, God, make small The old star-eaten blanket of the sky, That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie. The analysis of this short poem available on internet says: Fallen Gentleman reflects o