The English Language Centre of JGU was established in 2012 under the headship of Prof. Jagdish Batra. The main objective of the English Language Centre (ELC) is to be the epicentre of teaching and learning of English in all the four language skills including reading, writing, listening and speaking. It plays the role of an active partner in acknowledging the aspirations of students to become global citizens through the effective use of English with the different schools of the university including Law, Business, International Affairs, Government and Public Policy, Liberal Arts and Journalism, Architecture, Banking and Finance, etc.
ELC aims to create awareness about the aesthetics of the English language through different activities like story writing, debates, discussions, public speech competitions and poetry recitations which are conducted under the banner of English Literary Society. Students from different schools are invited to participate in these events in order to improve their knowledge of English language and literature.
Centre Coordinator:
Dr Suman Rani, Associate Professor
Email: elc.oefl@jgu.edu.in
The ELC faculty teaches various English language and literature courses in different schools of JGU. These courses cater to different requirements of various schools. As such, there are courses like Business English, Communication Skills, Academic Writing, etc.
ELC takes up the task to train students who require support in improving their competence to use the English language. It offers a platform to foreign students from varied mother tongues to brush up their English Language skills. Apart from these activities, ELC conducts special remedial classes for admin staff from time to time. Students requiring help in cracking IELTS/TOEFL exams are also offered guidance. Most courses offered at the Centre are tailor-made to cater to the needs of candidates.
Through its affiliate English Literary Society, the ELC conducts regular meetings wherein its members take part in activities like debates, poetry/short story writing contests, poetic recitation, etc. which help them to boost their interest in and felicity with English language and literature. Also the Society conducts annual international literary conferences annually in which a large number of delegates and renowned scholars from different parts of the world take part. So far, eight such conferences have been held.
English Literary Society was set up in 2014 with a view to giving a platform to students to express their ideas and sentiments in English apart from learning more of English literature. To achieve this end, the society organizes periodic meetings at which students and faculty members interested in literature read their poems and stories. Other programs organized are — talks on literary topics by guest speakers, screening of English movies, literary quizzes, story writing competitions, etc. A good number of students have benefitted from these programmes.
The Society has also been organizing under the Convenor-ship of Prof. Jagdish Batra, annual international literary conferences for the past eight years in which a large number of delegates and resource persons, both from within and outside India have been taking part. Spread over 2/3 days, the conferences have helped students of JGU in learning the art of organizing such events and adding to their knowledge of English literature. The literary figures who have graced these events with their presence and participation include poet Padma Shri Keki Daruwalla, novelists Jaishree Misra and Roswitha Joshi, critic Harish Trivedi, public intellectuals Rajiv Malhotra, Shiv Visvanathan and Avadhesh Kumar Singh, academics Padma Bhushan Kapil Kapoor, R.K. Dhawan and Elisabetta Marino, et al. The following were the themes of these conferences:
For souvenir containing reports of all previous conferences, please click on:
2022 Souvenir of 8th JGU International Literary Conference
Student Coordinators (2021-22):
President: Meghna Malik,
19jsjc-meghna.m@jgu.edu.in
Vice President: Karanveer Bhatt,
20jgbs-kbhatt@jgu.edu.in
Secretary: Varenya Subramanian,
20jgbs-varenya@jgu.edu.in
Faculty Coordinator:
Dr Fatemeh Rajabi (frajabi@jgu.edu.in)
Online 8th JGU International Literary Conference, 2022
Prof. Shiv Visvanathan at the 2022 conference
Chief Guest Prof. B.K. Kuthiala at the 8th JGU International Literary Conference 2021
Sh. Rajiv Malhotra at the 2021 conference
A view of the 5th JGU International Literary Conference 2019
Audience at the 3rd JGU International Literary Conference, 2016
A view of the 1st JGU-ISCS International Literary Conference, January, 2015
Prof. Avadhesh Kumar Singh addressing the delegates at the 2018 conference
Renowned poet Keki Daruwalla being presented a souvenir by Conference Convener at the 4th JGU International Literary Conference, 2018.
Acclaimed novelist Jaishree Misra at the 3rd JGU International Literary Conference, 2019
Vice Chancellor C. Raj Kumar inaugurating the 4th JGU International Literary Conference, 2018.
A view of the 4th JGU International Literary Conference, 2018.