YA GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN

OUR DEPARTMENT

Introduction :

              Every public institution takes birth in the thoughts of a visionary. A Degree college to come into existence in the early decades of Independent India certainly needs the vision of a munificent visionary. There was a sense of real urgency in the air to educate the young men and women.

        YA Government College for Women, Chirala was founded in the year 1966 as a composite college offering education at Intermediate and Undergraduate levels. The Department of English is as old as the college itself. It has a saga of Fifteen years of imparting English language to young female adults hailing from all sections of the society.

          The guiding light has always been the idea that educating a girl is educating a family. An educated mother is more than a complement to the public education system. Many a young woman passed through the college earning a graduation degree in their three years of study as enlightened individuals. Their contribution as government servants, employees in the private sector and mothers cannot be put in words.

           English as a second language has a unique place in our curriculum. It is the language of International commerce, law, medicine, engineering, technology and information technology. Possession of moderate degree of proficiency in English reading, writing and speaking is a token for entering a respectable government or private job.

           It is the language of International communication. India proudly flaunts the fact that we have large pool of youth who are proficient in English communication skills.

           The Department of English of this college has been successfully contributing its own share to this pool of young women. The department has always been manned with dedicated teachers who treat the students as their own children. The department has the awareness at the back of its mind about the deprived conditions from which many of the students emerge. This awareness manifests itself in the sympathetic approach of the English faculty to all student related issues that include not only teaching, providing study materials, but also offering financial assistance, training them in interview and employability skills, emotional support and career guidance. The department plays a key role in all round development of personality of the students. The department of English follows a carefully designed annual curricular plan in tune with the university undergraduate academic schedule. It conducts a number of curricular and co-curricular activities as part of its curricular plan. The teaching approach is mostly student friendly and student centered.

Department Profile

• Establishment of the Department              : 1966
• Pattern of study                                                 : CBCS
• Courses of Offered                                            : Under Graduation
• Programmes                                                        : B.A, B.Com (Gen&C.A),B.Sc.,

•  No. of Lecturers working                               : 02 (Male-02)
• Lecturers with Ph.D.’s                                     : 01  
• Publications                                                         : 03
• Paper presentations                                         : 05
• MO U’s and Collaborations                            : 01
• Methodology adopted in teaching               : Debates, Group Discussions, Lecture methods
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Highlights of the staff members:

1. M. Luther

       Member of various c0mmittiees in the institution

2. Dr. G. Krishna Prasad

       Member of various c0mmittiees in the institution

 The Department of English is striving to achieve the following objectives:

• To train students in four basic language skills –Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
  
• To make students use English language structures
  
• To make students learn vocabulary, idioms, grammar and use them in day to day conversations
  
• To make students comprehend the prescribed English texts by citing live examples
  
• To make students read the texts both verbal and non verbal and decipher the hidden meanings
  
• To enable students acquire linguistic competence required in various life situations
  
• To acquaint students with minimum pronunciation skills
  
• To make students participate in conversations and discussions
  
• To enable students write with clarity and conciseness
  
• Finally to make students appreciate the importance of English
  
• To make students competent for job market

To realize the aforesaid objectives the following student centered teaching learning methodology is being followed.

Vision

• To provide quality education
  
• To equip the students with knowledge and skills in English and communication
  
• To inculcate values and promote them
  
• To provide opportunities and exposure our students to realize their potential
  

Mission

• To inculcate quality education in keeping with the college mission
  
• To prepare young minds to acquire knowledge skills and employment opportunities 

A few quotes on languages:

• “A man who knows two languages is worth two men” – French proverb
  
• “Knowledge of languages is the door way to wisdom”- Roger Bacon
  
• “Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going” – Rita Mae Brown
  
• "Language is ‘the infinite use of finite means" – Wilhelm von Humboldt
  
• “To have another language is to possess a second soul” – Charlemagne
  
• “A language is an exact reflection of the character and the growth of its speakers”- Cesar Chavez
  
• “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own” – Johan Wolfgang von Goethe