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Seminar in English Studies at Air University in collaboration with Higher Education Commission, ELTR Project Phase II, December 201 Keynote speaker: Professor Emeritus, Sydney University Ruqaiyah Hasan Plenary speakers: Professor Zakia Sarwar and Professor Riaz Hassan Essentially this is a postgraduate conference to provide budding researchers a platform to share ideas, seek guidance and resolve controversies in the research journey they are embarked on. We would like you to not just attend this seminar, but also share your thoughts on the above mentioned topic and contribute to the research ideas and paradigm that is shaping Pakistan?ÇÖs academia.  View Posts  Trip to National Language Authority Students of Sociolinguistics are keen to understand the procedures of language codification and standardization. The trip could help us understand the role of Urdu language and how it is being preserved. View Posts  CALL - the Workshop A workshop based on computer assisted langauge learning was arranged by the Air University in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission for ESL/EFL teachers. The 36-hour training course helped enhance teachers' skills to use technololgy in teh language classrooms at different levels. View Posts  Seminar: From theory to practice Congratulations to the MS/MPhil first batch on the success of the first seminar. This was your first formal presentation before a larger audience and most of you were experimenting in new areas. I hope this proved to be a good learning experience for all of you. The major demand of the presentation was to have a discussion of the theory which should just take 30% of your total presentation time! If there is more on the theory, that should go in the handout. And the remaining talk should have been about the application and significance and application of the theory for you as researchers! Only 4-5 students met this demand. I was disappointed to see most of you reading directly from the slides. No eye-contact and no discussion. This implies that you didn?ÇÖt have any knowledge of what you were presenting. Those who weren?ÇÖt reading directly from the slides, but were saying what was exactly written on the slide did represent good cramming skills, but again this doesn?ÇÖt reveal your intellectual abilities. I hope in the future we are able to overcome these and will have more confidence in ourselves! View Posts