Reader cum Research Officer |
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Educational
Qualification: |
M.A.,(1973)
and Ph. D (1983) in Linguistics - 'A Descriptive Analysis
of Yerava'- is published and got the award for the 'Best
Monograph on Dravidian Tribes' in the year 1995 by the
International School of Dravidian Languages |
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Teaching and Research Experience: |
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Taught
Kannada to those who do not know Kannada through the
distance as well as face to face mode; effective language
teaching methods to the Kannada teachers of primary,
secondary schools and teacher educators of the Teacher
training institutions and colleges; administrative Kannada
courses to the Government employees. |
| Research : |
Conducted
research in applied linguistics , socioliguistics and tribal
language. Prepared instructional materials to teach Kannada
as mother tongue of the school children and as a second/foreign
language to school children, general public, officials of
the banks and the government officials. Also prepared monographs
on effective language teaching methods. |
Current Responsibilities: |
As
Academic Secretary co-ordinating the academic activities
of the Institute, maintaining laison with officers in
charge of various Research Groups and Service unists
and assisting the Director. |
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On
the editorial board of -Dictionary of words barrowed
from English into Kannada ; Annotated Glossary of Administrative
Kannada terms; Preparation of model mother tongue CD
book in Kannada. |
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Applied
Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Information Technology |
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Vocabulary
Education, Vagdevi pustakagalu, Mysore, 1985. |
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Language
Use in Administration and National Integration, Central Institute
of Indian Languages, Mysore,1986 |
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Kannada
baaradavarige ance muulaka Kannada paathagalu,lessons to teach
Kannada to those government employees who do not know Kannada(reprinted
3 times, revised and reprinted in 1998), CIIL and Directorate
of Kannada and Culture, Govt of Karnataka, 1985-86. |
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audyamika
kannada, (with S.S.Yadurajan), on Industrial Kannada, CIIL
and Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Ltd, 1989. Received the
best administrative Kannada literature award by the Government
of Karnataka, 1989. |
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samakaaliina,
on using newspapers in language education, CIIL, Mysore, 2000 |
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A language movement in Karnataka, in Profiles in Indian Languages,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1985. |
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General and need based second language courses, International
review of Applied linguistics, Vol 40, No.5, 1989. |
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The
Eighth Schedule Languages - A Critical appraisal, in Language
and the State: Perspectives in the Eighth Schedule, (ed)R.S.Gupta,
Creative Books, New Delhi, 1995. |
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Kannada
Development: An Overview, in Goals and Strategies of Development
in Indian Languages (ed) B.D.Jayaram and K.S.Rajyashree. CIIL,
Mysore, 1998. |
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shaikshanika karnataka - 1998, in Kannada adhyayana, Vol.5
No.4, Kannada University Hampi, 1999. |
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Evolution
of Language Policy for Education in Karnataka. 2001 Papers
in Applied Linguistics. Ed by K.S.Rajyashree and U.N.Singh
.Mysore: CIIL. |
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Visited
Munich, Germany during January 2003 to present a paper
on 'Globalization and Indian Languages' in the International
Conference on Maintaining Language Diversity in the
Face of Globalization organized by the Eufo Institute,
Germany. |
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Visited
Budapest, Hungary to attend the Tenth Conference of
the European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (EACL03) from April 12 to 17, 2003 to present
a refereed and accepted paper 'Corpora in Minor Languages
of India: Some Issues' in the Workshop on "Computational
Linguistics for South Asian Languages- Expanding Synergies" |
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Visited
Regensburg, Germany during July 2003 to participate
in the First Conference cum Presentation of "Inter-lingual
communication by representing the mother tongue in COD"
on July 5, 2003 at the Invitation of the eufo-Institute,
Regensburg held at the University of Regensburg. |
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