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Educational Qualification Areas of interest
Previous Teaching and Research Experience: Major Publications: Books:
Current Responsibilities Papers
Current Projects Specific Interests and Hobbies

Educational Qualification:
Ph.D.(Linguistics); M.A.(Kannada); M.A.(English); Diploma in Folklore; Diploma in Journalism; Hindi Pragya; Certificate Course in Tamil; Computer Course in DOS, Wordstar, Windows 98, Leap Office etc.

Previous Teaching and Research Experience:
Taught:
Taught Kannada as second language to SRLC trainees, B.Sc. students of AIISH, IAS/IPS officers of Govt. of Karnataka, Under-graduate students of Lewis & Clark College, Oregaon, USA. Taught administrative Kannada to the Assistant Directors of Land Records, Govt. of Karnataka. Taught Kannada language, language skills, language games, Folklore, Television script writing methods and production of films during several Orientation programs for teachers and participants of different workshops.
Researched:
Prepared text books, Audio scripts, TV scripts for language teaching programs. Produced audio and video programs. Research on 'Dharmaamritam : A Linguistic Study'; Written script and produced audio programs on Environment. Prepared teaching materials for Administrative Kannada. Coordinated more than10 programs on language related topics.

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.

Current Projects:
On the editorial board of - Dictionary of words barrowed from English into Kannada sh; Annotated Glossary of Administrative Kannada terms; Preparation of model mother tongue CD book in Kannada.

Areas of interest
Applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and Information Technology

Major Publications: Books:
 
  • Vocabulary Education, Vagdevi pustakagalu, Mysore, 1985.
    Language Use in Administration and National Integration, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore,1986
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • samakaaliina, on using newspapers in language education, CIIL, Mysore, 2000

Papers
  • A language movement in Karnataka, in Profiles in Indian Languages, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1985.
  • General and need based second language courses, International review of Applied linguistics, Vol 40, No.5, 1989.
  • 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.
  • Kannada Development: An Overview, in Goals and Strategies of Development in Indian Languages (ed) B.D.Jayaram and K.S.Rajyashree. CIIL, Mysore, 1998.
  • shaikshanika karnataka - 1998, in Kannada adhyayana, Vol.5 No.4, Kannada University Hampi, 1999.
  • 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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