Editorial
Welcoming New Year
with Another Series of Serendipity
Ushakiran, Praveen, and Umes
Whenever the New Year arrives, we renew the journey planner of our life; our life begins once again with great excitement that promises new success. The planner doesn’t discriminate what is doable and what is undo-able; it simply acts as a path setter. We follow the path, which guides, and what actually happens is serendipitous. Life is like that. Our professional life is not very different from that. It resonates our normal personal life.
The journey of NeltaChoutari has also been renewed recently with the arrival the Nepali New Year 2071. And yes for sure, we have resolutions for this year too. We don’t have a written planner, a chart or a calendar where we can make notes, but, we have a portable plan with organizing chart in our mind. This is our beacon for the year ahead. We are sure this planner will help us by directing our best efforts to make the Choutari able to gear up with its success. It will open newer avenues that will lead us to chart news horizons. Our journey is sure to be serendipitous. Be ready to become the surprisers. Choutari has set to serve such surprises, not at one time, but successively in the months to come.
Our success is based on your (you, the readers) effort and collaboration that come through your contribution of articles and your readership. Choutari team of editors will always be busy supplying you with substantial information along with materials but your participation is what makes a difference. We have planned to expand activities of Choutari by incorporating a variety of reading materials and resources important for your research work, paper writing and, of course, for classroom teaching. The benefits will be serendipitous.
The May 2014 Issue is serendipitous in real sense. This month we have come up again with a variety of blog entries, ranging from teaching grammar and vocabulary, and learned centered approach to teachers’ development through teachers’ club, and self-reflection of using YouTube and journal writing for developing fluency and writing in English. Besides, for this issue, we have a special blog entry on post-colonialism in Indian literature.
Here is the list of blog entries for this month:
- If Only, It Were True: The Problems with Grammar Teaching, by Pramod Kumar Sah
- Games for retaining Vocabulary, by Pema Kala Bhusal
- Learner-Centered Teaching: Some Considerations, by Guru Prasad Poudel
- Professional Development through English Teachers’ Club, by Shashi Kayastha
- YouTube: My Best Friend Forever, by Chandra Pd. Acharya
- My Journey of Journal Writing, by Santona Neupane
- Post-colonialism in Indian literature, by Prakash C. Balikai
Isn’t it an array of diverse ideas and experiences? We hope you find these stuffs useful.
Now we invite you to join the conversation again by sharing your responses as comments under any posts, by liking and sharing them with your network, by contributing your own posts for future issues, and by encouraging other colleagues to do the same.
Happy serendipitous reading!
Choutari Team
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