Meet on multilingualism begins
First Published : 25 Jan 2011 03:28:35 AM IST
Photographed by Laila Saein
KOCHI: The two day UGC sponsored international conference on 'Multimodality, multilingualism, multiliteracies: new pedagogies for new times', organised by the Department of English, St Teresa's College here in collaboration with London Metropolitan University, the UK, began here on Monday. Inaugurating the conference, Education Minister M A Baby said the State Government has been trying to improve the quality of education over the last five years.
He congratulated the team behind the conduct of the conference and added that the conference attempts to address an important dimension of higher education, in the light of the world having become a global village. Mark Bickerton, director, International Development, London Metropolitan University, the UK, stressed the importance of language over theory and added that the focus of the conference was not on grammar, but on helping young people communicate. Sr Christabelle, principal of St Teresa's College, spoke ?
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