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Hello Readers, As a part of academics we arranged a movie screening of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" and this blog is a part of our co-curricular activity of our department.  Click Here to Follow the Link The reluctant fundamentalist (film) is a 2012 political thriller drama film based on 2007 novel, the reluctant fundamentalist novel by Mohsin Hamid and directed by Mira Nair . It is a novel by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid which was published in 2007 . Here Changez Khan finding himself adjusting in a conflict between his American dreams, and he accomplishing much before the planes hit The World Trade Center (9/11) . This leading him to step back from his career and his love life as well. Here he himself is the narrator of the story while meeting in the Pak Tea House in Lahore with American journalist Bobby . A local American professor has just been kidnapped by Changez Khan . Changez Khan is the leader of Pakistani terrorist’s movement. While ta...

Hello Readers, As a part of academics we arranged a movie screening of "Midnight's Children and this blog is a part of our co-curricular activity of our department.  Click here to follow the link. The Movie “ Midnight’s Children ” is directed by Deepa Mehta which is based on the famous novel by booker prize winner Salman Rushdie . In this movie we can find historical facts and magic realism. The movie version of Midnight’s Children is all about historical events like partition of India and Pakistan and Emergency of 1975 in India. It is a story of two boys who were born at the stroke of midnight of 14 th August 1947. Here we can also say that it was a birth of two nations India and Pakistan. These two children have super power of communication through their thoughts. One is born in “rich family” and second is in “poor family”. There is a dialogue “A rich need to be poor and poor need to be rich” according to this the rich one will live in utter pov...

What is Second language Acquisition?  SLA means the processes through which someone acquires one or more second or foreign language. SLA is also closely related to cognitive psychology, and education.  •         According to Kreshan, the Acquisition of a language is naturalistic process, where as learning a language is a conscious one. What is First language? First language means mother tongue .Primary language that the child would learn. First language has an importance influence on the second language acquisition. First language is our identity. What is second Language? Second language is a foreign language. More informative, L2 can be said to be any language learned in addition to one’s mother tongue. L2 – target language. Second language may be used as an auxiliary or associate language as a functions which are not normally performed by first language. For a vast majority of educated people living in...