A Workbook on English Grammar and Composition by D Sudha Rani

About the book

Teaching of English grammar to a mixed group of students where the primary aim is to make the class interesting and learner-centric is always a challenge to the teachers. To meet this challenge, it is essential to equip the classroom with new and innovative methods and materials for learning. This new text-cum-workbook on English grammar is an attempt towards this direction. Based on real classroom experience of the authors, the book has got clear organization and user-friendly accessible language. Ample numbers of provided exercises aim to enable the students to regress and polish their grammar consistently while they enjoy learning through activity based work. Both students and teachers will appreciate the self-teaching quality that incremental exercises provide throughout the chapters with keys at the end of the book.

About the authors

Dr D Sudha Rani, teaches English at the Malla Reddy Institute of Technology in Hyderabad. She has 18 years of experience in English Language Teaching. Her PhD was on the plays of Mahesh Dattani and holds a post-graduate diploma in English Language teaching from CIEFL, Hyderabad.
T V Surendrdranath Reddy, D Ravi and A S Jyotsna also teach English at the Malla Reddy Institute of Technology in Hyderabad.

Contents

Preface

Note to the Teachers

Note to the Students

Introduction

Chapter 1 Articles

Chapter 2 Prepositions

Chapter 3 Tenses

Chapter 4 Subject-Verb Agreement

Chapter 5 Voice

Chapter 6 Speech

Chapter 7 Types of Sentences

Chapter 8 Paragraph Writing

Chapter 9 Vocabulary

Chapter 10 Integrated Grammar Exercises

Counselling and Guidance 3rd Edition by Rao and Sahajpal

About the book

The third extensively revised and updated edition of this widely popular book –Counselling and Guidance provides an introduction to the philosophy and principles of guidance. This new enlarged edition covers all the important aspects of this highly dynamic field of counselling. It discusses the counselling process at length while considering the representative theories and their essential outlines without subjecting the reader to polemics.

• There is a new reformed chapter on mental health—Counselling across human life-span: A mental-health perspective
• A new chapter on Counselling for marriage and family
• Keeping vulnerability of adolescent and young adults, two new chapters have been added—Guidance and Counselling in Educational Setting and Career Guidance and Counselling
• There is new chapter on special areas in counselling covering—Counselling for legal offenders and juvenile delinquents, minorities and weaker sections, alcoholics and substance abusers, victims of abuse and violence, and a topic on Crisis Intervention strategies.                                                                                                                       

About the authors                                                                                   

The late S Narayana Rao, former Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychology, Dean, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, and Principal, Sri Venkateswara University College, Tirupati, taught postgraduate students for more than 35 years. A Ph. D. in Educational Psychology and Counselling, he visited the University of Minnesota (USA), as a Fulbright Scholar.

Prem Sahajpal obtained her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Delhi. She served as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology of Indraprastha College, University of Delhi, from 1970 to 1972 and of Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, from 1972 to 2009. She is also working with NGOs like Muskan, SAHAN, Federation for Welfare of Mentally Retarded (India), OSTOMY Society, INDIA, as a Counsellor.

Contents  

Part I: Introduction to Counselling and Guidance

Chapter 1 Emergence and growth of guidance and counselling

Chapter 2 Counselling: Nature, related fi elds and scope

Chapter 3 Counselling and Guidance: Expectations, goals, issues, ethics and legalities

Chapter 4 Education and training of professional counsellors

Part II: Counselling Process and Techniques

Chapter 5 Counselling: The process, relationship and skills

Chapter 6 Assessment in counselling: Psychological testing and diagnosis

Chapter 7 Counselling interview

Part III: Theoretical Approaches to Counselling

Chapter 8 Approaches to counselling

Chapter 9 The individual versus group methods of counselling

Part IV: Counselling Applications

Chapter 10 Counselling across human life-span: A mental-health perspective

Chapter 11 Guidance and counselling in the educational setting

Chapter 12 Career guidance and counselling

Chapter 13 Counselling for family and marriage

Chapter 14 Special areas in counselling

Part V: Present Status of Counselling and Guidance

Chapter 15 Evaluation in counselling

Chapter 16 Modern trends in counselling

Chapter 17 The status of the guidance and counselling movement in India

A Practical Course in English Pronunciation by Roopa Suzana

About the book

English, spoken in India, invariably tends to be influenced by the rules of one’s mother tongue resulting in the genesis of a number of regional varieties of spoken English. We need to wean ourselves away from these influences and interferences and approximate our English to the standard norm, so that our speech is intelligible and effective.

A Practical Course in English Pronunciation is designed to help the readers get ample exposure to the rules and the technicalities of pronunciation. It is supplemented by well laid-out practice exercises. The accompanying audio CD will greatly aid the acquisition of the spoken skill by highlighting the nuances of pronunciation. This book aims at that much needed comprehensive training in effective, slant-free articulation skills, which is necessary for both national and international intelligibility.

About the author

Roopa Suzana is on the faculty of the department of linguistics and phonetics at The English and Foreign Language University (EFLU), Hyderabad. She is actively involved in writing, revising and editing study material in Phonetics, teaching Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics and guiding research scholars in the area of Phonetics. She also teaches Pronunciation skills on non-formal courses in the university including the International Training Programme.

After having completed her post graduation in English literature from Osmania University, she acquired the PGCTE, PGDTE, M.Phil (Linguistics and Phonetics) and Ph.D (Linguistics and Phonetics) degrees from the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, now, rechristened as The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. She has a rich experience in teaching, curriculum development and content writing in Phonetics at the university level. 

Table of Contents
Foreword 
Preface 
Acknowledgements 
Phonetic Symbols 
1. An Introduction to the Production of Speech Sounds 
2. The Sounds of the English Language 
3. Vowels: Monophthongs and Diphthongs
4. Consonants 
5. The Syllable 
6. Word Accent
7. Stress and Rhythm in Connected Speech 
8. Intonation
9. Correct Pronunciation and Usage of Similar Sounding Words 
10. Common Errors in Pronunciation-Mother Tongue Influence 
Appendix I. French and Latin Words/Phrases
Appendix II. Funetics-Fun with Phonetics

English for Academic and Professional Skills by Anand Mahanand

About the book

English for Academic and Professional Skills is culmination of author’s years of research and teaching where he designed syllabus and prepared materials to teach his students for several years. This book as been written to help students as well as professionals in acquiring and sharpening their reading and writing skills in English.Academic skills like skimming, scanning, note-making, note-taking summarizing, writing essays etc. are some of the essential expertise, that one needs to acquire to organize their work and studies in a better way.

About the author

Dr Anand Mahanand has been on the faculty of the English and Foreign Languages University,  Hyderabad for more than thirteen years. His areas of interest include English for Academic Purposes, Language through Literature, and English in Multilingual Contexts. 
He has conducted and supervised  research projects and published books, materials and research papers in these areas. His major  publications include Study Skills (co-authored), Tribal Folktales from Orissa (2009), English through  Folktales (2011) and Tribal India in Fiction (2011). He has recently completed a course titled EFL  Teacher Training in ESP from the University of Oregon.

Contents

About the author
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Academic Reading
1. Skimming
2. Scanning
Part II: Grammar
3. Tenses
4. Articles
5. Reported Speech
6. Modals
Part III: Academic Writing
7. Note-Making
8. Note-Taking
9. Summarizing
10. Essays, Papers and Reviews
11. Descriptive Writing
12. Presenting a Balanced Argument
13. Résumé
14. Letters
Answers
Appendix
Credits

Winning Résumés and Successful Interviews by Munish Bhargava

About the book

Winning Résumés and Successful Interviews is a first of its kind book as it not only serves as a simple recruiting process guide for university graduates and mid-career professionals, but also provides an ‘insider’ view and understanding of the recruitment process from the perspective of hiring managers who are on the look out for key talent. 

Contents

Foreword 

Preface

Acknowledgements 

1. Introduction 

2. Fundamentals of Job Search 

3. Résumé 

4. Case Study: Preparing Winning Résumés 

5. Cover Letter 

6. Résumé Distribution Strategy 

7. Interview Skills 

8. Salary Negotiations 

9. Key Industry Insights 

Appendix 1: Examples 

Appendix 2: Interview with Mr. K.P. Singh 

About the author

Munish Bhargava is the Corporate and Placement Advisor for the Indian Institute of An alumnus of Scindia School, Gwalior, Mr Bhargava obtained his Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from IT B.H.U., Master of Engineering from IIT Roorkee, and completed an executive programme in Marketing Management from IIM Calcutta.

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Creative Grammar by Indira Ramaswamy

About the book

A non-native speaker of the English language is generally apprehensive about grammar and perceives it as a tough area, often feeling intimidated by its nuances. The rules of grammar of any language offer challenges to be mastered. If these challenges are faced with an inquisitive and analytical mind putting vocabulary and grammar on the same platform, mastering a language will become an interesting as well as an enlightening experience. Creative Grammar aims at easing the apprehensions of non-native speakers of English through creative and interesting modes. The learning here is aimed at triggering the right side of the brain rather than the structured left side. In this aspect, this book is a little different from the traditional school-book grammar.

Language has two main components – vocabulary and grammar. If a sentence has to make sense, it has to be semantically and grammatically correct. The words that are chosen should be the most apt ones and the structure should be right. With this intention, the chapters in this book would deal with both these aspects. While grammar in its traditional form would be explained, the exercises and the explanations would be based on the real-time usage of words.

Creative Grammar is meant for those who have been exposed to the basics of grammar; it can be called a reinforcement of the technicalities learnt at the secondary and higher school levels and aims at perfecting the art of writing or speaking error-free English through a practical, analytical mode.

It is hoped that Creative Grammar would be of great help to students in learning the right usage of the English language.

About the author

Indira Ramaswamy, Associate Professor, Department of English, Christ University, Bangalore has been teaching ‘English Language and Literature’ at undergraduate level and ‘Communication’ at postgraduate level for the past 27 years. 

She has been a resource person for training programme for 12 batches of HAL Management Trainees on Communication Skills (between July 2006 and April 2007) and UGC sponsored workshop for BBM and BCA students at SJR College in Bangalore (in April 2008). She has also organized workshops on Interpersonal Skills for postgraduate students at Christ University.

Contents

Foreword 

Preface 

Acknowledgements 

1. The Link between Input and Structure

2. Make Grammatical Sense of Sentences

3. The World of Verbum 

4. Connect with Clauses and Phrases 

5. Articulate Well with Articles 

6. Proper Positioning of Prepositions 

7. Be Punctilious with Punctuation 

8. Communicate Clearly, Correctly and Creatively 

Appendices 

Appendix 1: Worksheets 

Appendix 2: Common Mistakes 

Keys to Tasks and Worksheets 

References 

Recommendations

Any other mediocre routine textbook would easily have taken ‘n’ number of chapters to explain similar concepts. However in Creative Grammar the coverage has been done very intelligently in a concise and exciting manner making this new book appealing for its ‘no burden’ approach.

Dr. Neera Singh (Indira Gandhi National Open University) 

This new book presents difficult concepts related to English grammar in a convincing manner, facilitating exciting ways of teaching and learning. The book is embedded with rich examples in the form of excerpts taken from multiple sources enabling the learner easily understand the various grammatical functions of English language.

Dr. Shashi S Singh (Amity Institute of English Studies and Research)                

                                              

Statistics for Psychology by Verma and Ghufran

About the book

This new textbook on Statistics has been developed for the students of Psychology at the college and university level, strictly adhering to the syllabi guidelines recommended by University Grant Commission.The examples and exercises have been extracted mostly from psychological research. Apart from the students of Psychology, this comprehensive text will also cater to the students from other ares of Social Sciences and other applied areas like Management, Sociology, Education, Home-Science, Nutrition etc. 

About the authors

Dr. J.P. Verma is a professor of Statistics at the Lakshmibai National University of Physical Education Gwalior. He has experience of more than thirty years of teaching Applied Statistics to the students of various disciplines. He possesses three masters degree in Statistics, Psychology and Computer application besides PhD degree. He has this unique distinction of being 1st position holder in M.Sc. (Statistics) from Kanpur University as well as in M.A (Psychology) from Jiwaji University, Gwalior. He was also visiting fellow to the University of Sydney in 2002. He has visited countries like Australia, Poland, Scotland, Bangkok and Nepal for various academic assignments and conducted numerous workshops in the area of Applied Statistics and Research Methodology.

Dr. Mohammad Ghufran is presently Professor of Psychology in Kumaun University, Neonatal (Almorha Campus). He has been actively associated with teaching and research for more than 22 years. His main area of research is Personality and Social Psychology. He has published more than 35 research articles and a book on Guidance and Counseling.

Table of Contents

About the Authors 

Foreword 

Preface 

1. Importance of Statistics in Psychology

2. Measurement and Scaling Techniques

3. Descriptive Analysis of Psychological Data

4. Graphical Presentation of Data

5. Probability and its Application in Psychology

6. Normal Distribution and its Application 149

7. Correlation and Regression Techniques

8. Sampling Techniques

9. Research Design in Psychology

10. Statistical Inference

11. Analysis of Variance 334

12. Non-parametric Tests for Psychological Data

13. Non-parametric Correlations

14. Application of Factor Analysis in Psychological Data

Recommendation

Structure and flow of contents of this book are really marvelous. They are not only appropriate but also adequate enough to let students master the concepts.

                                           -Prof. (Dr).V. D. Swaminathan, University of Madras