Staff Details

Biography

A passionate teacher with 30 years of experience, believes in facilitating learning than in preaching. Equipped with the advantages of student centric teaching methods and communicative language teaching methods under the tutelage of George Bishop Junior, English Language Fellow USA, she innovates in classroom through student centric language teaching activities. She is a designer of courses for AP State Council of Higher Education and designed courses in Communicative English and Special English. In addition, she is into material development as she has authored/ coauthored student centric course books as well as edited such course books commissioned by APSCHE and APCCE.  

Her passion is not confined to teaching just students but is extended to share with her colleagues by training them in Student Centric Pedagogy, Communicative Language Teaching Methods, Blooms Taxonomy in planning lessons, teaching, and assessment and Outcome Based Education. She is a certified ELF Master Trainer by Regional English Language Office USA and APCCE. She has conducted almost 50 workshops for the faculty of UG colleges and Engineering Colleges. The faculty trained are many times are from across disciplines and are not confined to English language.

Love for ‘Quality’, which is the driving force behind all the activities that she takes up, also makes her assist the administrations in quality assessment and she has been Coordinator for NAAC at college as well as regional level for the last 12 years.

Language, which is her love, defines her hobbies too. Culture, identity, ethnic history are the areas  that inspire her reading choices. She has collaborated with Dr.Koganti VijayaBabu in bringing out a collection of critical essays Padamati Ragam on the western writers in Telugu and translation of poems written by Sahitya Academy award winning writer Devipriya  titled Sleeping with Rainbow

Areas of Interest & Specialization:

Phonetics, English Language Teaching, Student Centric  Pedagogy, ELT Assessment and Evaluation, Course Design and Development

Courses taught:

• Introduction to English Language Teaching
• Phonetics and Linguistics
• ELT a Communicative Approach
• Grammar for Functional Use
• Skills and strategies in Professional Reading and Writing
• Introduction to Professional writing and speaking.
• General English Courses
• Literature Courses

Publications:

• Research publications: 25 papers in Journals.
• Academic Books:
• “Skill Pro- A Course in Communication Skills and Soft Skills”
• Praxis Pro; English Praxis Course-III, A course in Conversational Skills; An Activity Based text book, Maruthi Publications, Andhra Pradesh:
• Skill Craft: A Communicative English Laboratory Workbook
• Skill Spark: A course in communication and soft skills
• Co editor Skill Steps: Level 1 & 2: Course books in Communicative English, APSCHE;
• Coauthored an E-book “Skill Genie” a book on life and leadership skills and is placed on Govt. and University websites as well student study websites. https://rusa.nic.in/andhra-pradesh-3/reports-publications/; https://svimstpt.ap.nic.in/edu/skill_genie.pdf https://www.studocu.com/in/document/osmania-university/managerial-communication/skill-genie/31078879; https://www.scribd.com/document/390123776/Skill-Genie https://www.coursehero.com/file/30321045/Skill-geniepdf/   
• Creative Writing: Padamati Ragam, Sleeping with Rainbow

Awards/Achievements/Recognitions:

• International Scholarships of RELO, USA A course in EFL Assessment from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, U.S.A in June 2012
• International Scholarships of RELO, USA for A course in “Lesson Planning and Materials Development” from the Middlebury Institute at Monterey, USA, December 2015.