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“LACK OF MOTIVATION AS A RESTRAIN TO FOSTER THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE READING AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS”

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February 29 2024 “LACK OF MOTIVATION AS A RESTRAIN TO FOSTER THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE READING AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS” --- CHRISTY BOBAN --- ABSTRACT Language plays a crucial role in education for several reasons as it is the primary medium through which teachers convey information and students express their thoughts and understanding. It serves as the cornerstone of effective teaching and learning across all subjects and disciplines. Additionally, education fosters motivation, critical thinking, and communicative competence, essential for effective language acquisition and usage. Motivation is an orientation towards learning. This project intends to study how lack of motivation affects English language reading among secondary school students by overlooking the ways students involve into the process of reading after being motivated. English being the universal language hold great importance in the learning sphere. Keywords : motivation, interest, intrinsic, extrinsic, reading IN

SIGNIFICANCE OF OWNING A GOOD HANDWRITING

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          Handwriting is the style of writing which varies with persons. In simple words, it is the style of writing used by one and it is unique with persons. In a way it can have a parallel standard with the iris of humans as they vary from person to person. The major characteristics of handwriting can be,  Shape and formation of letters The spacing between letters and words Slant or slope of letters Pressure applied on the paper while writing The average size of the letters Thickness of letters These characteristics define good and bad handwriting too. Good handwriting can be the ones which are properly formed, spaced, in perfect size and thickness of letters, readable without much effort. On the other hand, the bad handwriting needs a lot of effort to be understood and they will be disordered in look.      As learners it is important to own a fair handwriting as it can influence your educational performance. Good handwriting may not always bring you more marks but bad handwriting m

CELEBRATING THE UNHEARD MELODY OF LOUIS PETER

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  According to Francis Bacon, “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”      Louis Peter, a Malayalam poet was one who turned harsh realities of life into poetry. He enjoyed the beauty within 'strangeness' and wrote from his experiences. His poetry was hard and I mark them as the ‘celebration of unusuals' rather than the mundane celebration of usuals.       This writing carries the motive to express his uniqueness and to throw light on the intensity of emotions carried by his lines. He once pointed that, "നരകം സമ്മാനമായി തന്ന നാരായംകൊണ്ടാണ് ഞാനെഴുതുന്നത് അതിനാലാണ് എന്റെ കവിതകളിൽ ദൈവത്തിന്റെ കൈയക്ഷരം ഇല്ലാതെപോയത് " And the translation is, “I write with the pen gifted from hell.  This is why my writings lack the hand of God.”           He passed away in 2020 and he was a native of Vengoor, Kerala. He moved out from his job at Federal Bank with a motive to dwell deep into poetry. He wrote his first poem in 1986 and the second ca