International Cultural Exchange

The English Language Lab has opened a unique way toteach English to students. In this method the students listen to experts fromvarious countries talk about their culture.

The programthat runs for one and half hours and involves the following steps.

First, after the initial welcoming of all by thecoordinator Dr Somali Gupta, one of the students introduces the guest to therest of the participants and welcomes the guest on behalf of the college andthe participants. Then the guest shares about his/her culture for around 40 -45mins. The session is then opened for Q&A session for 20 mins. After that asa mark of respect, 2 students present 2 different aspects of Indian Culture tothe Guest. Finally,one student offers the Vote of thanks.

Other activities like making Flyers, participating ina Quiz based on the lectures they have heard, making Presentations, preparingand Reading out the Introduction and offering the Vote of thanks further helpsthem to improve their language skills. The students were practicing all thefour skills Reading Writing Speaking and Listening in English and more throughthese activities. Thus, through various activities they used thedifferent levels of human cognition—i.e., thinking, learning, and understanding.

The students have also participated in webinarsorganized by other countries thus building their general knowledge and gainingconfidence by actively participating in them. Each activity was designed todevelop a particular competence in the students.

Sno	Activity	Skill developed	Other skills
1.	Making flyers	Creativity, Communication skills
2.	Presentations	Creativity, communication through pictures, verbal communication	Confidence building
3.	Introduction of Guest	Speaking skills, writing skills, using passive voice,	Confidence building
4.	Vote of Thanks	Active listening, Spoken skills
5	Practice sessions of presentations	Active listening and Spoken English improvement of vocabulary, correct sentence constructions	Teambuilding, support
6.	Whatsapp chatting in groups	Writing skills, improvement of vocabulary, correct sentence constructions	Team building , confidence building
7	Report writing	Active Listening, writing skills

The students have also participated in webinarsorganized by “Enjoy Reading” a voluntary reading group from Indonesia.

There are 61 active participants in the program andexperts from 14 countries have addressed the students for far.

The program started on 19^th Jan 2021 withthe following 14speakersdifferent countries.

The program was inaugurated by Dr. PrashantShrivastava, Dean, Student’s Welfare, Hemchand Yadav University, Durg, C.G. on19^th January 2021.

Sno.	Date	Resource person	Details of the resource person	Country
1.	19.01.21	Dr NadezdaStojkovic	Associate Prof. Faculty of English, University of Nis, Serbia	Serbia
2.	23.01.21	Monica Collier	CELTA certified Language expert, Boston	USA
3.	26.01.21	Kenan Kundalic	Manager, Arcelor Mittal, Zenica	Bosnia
4.	29.01.21	Lia Flores	Translator, Language expert	Mexico
5.	01.02.21	MarijaJelic	Financial Administrator, Split	Croatia
6.	09.02.21	Hanna Ambaras Khan	Senior Lecturer,School of Business and Economics, University Putra, Malaysia	Malaysia
7.	11.02.21	Zana Knezevic	Associate Professor of ESP University Mediterranean“ Podgorica.	Montenegro
8	17.02.21	VesnaTrajkovska	Associate Professor , Faculty of Security, Skopje	Macedonia
9.	18.02.21	EwaHajdasz	Associate Professor, Head of the Centre of Foreign Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences	Poland
10.	28.02.21	Flavio Caocci	Software Engineer,Tesisquare, Torino	Italy
11.	02.03.21	Linda Weinberg	Head of English Studies, Braude College of Engineering ,Karmiel	Israel
12.	04.03.21	David Padro Cossio	Spanish and French Language Expert	Spain/ Shanghai
13.	05.03.21	Dundar Aydin	Student of Financial Economics and Banking, DokuzEylul University	Turkey
14	19.03.21	Le The Hien	Lecturer, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Economics and Finance, Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam

The next phase of the International CulturalExchange will be conducted as direct interface of student from our institutionwith the students from Poland, Israel, Surbia starting from April 2021.