TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Kathmandu: 17-19 February 2007

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
NELTA is organising its TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE from 17-19 February 2007 in Kathmandu. The Conference is a professional get together of a large number of ELT practitioners, methodologists, textbooks/material writers, teacher trainers, etc. from all parts of Nepal and abroad. The participants at the Conference are usually ELT practitioners from public as well as private educational organisations and from all levels of education - primary to university.

The theme of the TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE is:
Mainstreaming Life with English: Situating English in Second/Foreign Language Contexts
The presentations are expected to touch upon the issues related to English as a tool to mainstreaming process of one’s life and its repercussions regarding language pedagogy, language policy and planning, social and economic aspects. The presentations may be research-based, experience based, arguments or opinions. While we are open to presentations in any area of English language teaching, however, the following areas are the main focus:
• English and Mainstreaming of Life
• English and Social Mobility
• English and empowerment
• English and marginalisation
• Classroom sociology and the English classrooms in the third world
• English, the rich, the poor: a divider or a unifier?
• The position of English in national educational language planning

The Conference will organise plenary sessions, talks/papers, workshops, poster presentations, etc. Exhibitions of ELT materials and books will also be organised.

We would be grateful if you agree to do a session during the conference. Please fill out the enclosed “Presenters’ Proposal Form” giving details of your presentation(s) and send it to NELTA, GPO BOX NO. 11110, Kathmandu, Nepal by December 31 2006.

For further details, please contact
Laxman Gnawali
General Secretary
NELTA
GPO BOX NO 11110, Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: +977-1– 4229299/5544656/ Mobile +977-9841-285284
Email:

Soorce :
Lekhnath Pathak
Department of Loinguistics, TU

Dear friends I‘ve these answers for the questions asked for the global youth year book. Please comment on this I might be wrong. These questions were asked by Daylina from US.

1. What is your morning routine? During the summer?

During summer or let say during my long vacations and holidays. I go to my village. My village is mayatari which is in Syangja. Usually I wake up early in the morning and visit the community information center (CIC) which we have established just before 2 years. Generally I spent 3-4 hours in the CIC briefing the villagers about the possibilities of IT in this village in their daily work so that their life gets even simpler and easier. Also I read the newspapers for the people who are not literate and still interested about the information and news. Also from 7 am to 8 am I take English language tuition to the school students. These days now there are 5 CIC’s in Syangja district. SO I generally visit them one by one every alternate day in the morning. ? However on Saturday I sleep up to 10’o clock in the morning. HEHHEH!
2. During the school year?

I usually wake up in the morning and obviously wash up my self. Then I rush to the paropakar Orphanage home near by the place I live .where I train the orphanage children basketball and karate. It’s really hard waking up 5:00 am in the morning. Still after being there with the children really makes me happy. They are interested in Basket ball as I was when I used to be in their age. After 7:30 -08:00 we were already back in the orphanage home. Every one again gets freshen up and study for an hour. At 8:30 I am back to the hostel and at 9:30 I am in college. This way my morning is spent.



3. How is the conflict in the Middle East impacting you and your community?

Conflict in the Middle East is having an adverse impact upon me and my community. Talking about myself, I am involved in the promotion of IT in the rural sectors of Nepal. Due to the conflicts sometimes I feel discouraged as if I won’t be able to establish community information centers in the whole syangja district and aware the people of the advancement of IT. Sometimes in frustration I just skip some of my plans. Regarding the effect on the community, Most of the people are migrating towards the urban areas in hope of peace in life and better security. As I have already written to you about the Maoists problem in Nepal. Due the conflict many innocent people are murdered day after day. The situation in Nepal is like a single country with two governments. One is the official one –Nepal Government and the other is the Maoists government. The capital is only in control of the Nepal government but the major parts of Nepal are forcefully ruled by the so called Maoists for whom killing a man is just like killing a chicken. So the community as a whole is disturbed. May be this situation is the induced effect of the other Middle East countries. Hey my friends can you believe Nepal used to be one of the most peaceful country in Nepal.

What do you feel should happen to resolve this conflict? 3. What are your feelings towards this and why?


The main point is sacrifice. First of all the opposing parties must feel the importance of the peace to happen in this world. Then comes the negotiation such that there will be no use of arm and ammunition just in the name of the equality and the poor people. If there are true leaders fighting for the rights of the general public then our leaders please fight so that we all have a peace and harmony. It is strongly felt that the leaders in the path of Mahatma Gandhi be supported and encouraged by the general public such that there will be no war to end the existing war. Also the respective governments of the conflict effected country needs a lot of paper works in terms of the important plans, policies and other laws such that it represents the spirits of the general public. So the dignitaries and the leaders in the government must realize that the source of conflict is due to the irregularities in the laws and orders of the government. So they should always work on making the government offices without corruption. As the saying goes “There are no underdeveloped countries in this world, but there are only undermanned countries”. So I suggest the political leaders in the government first be given the intensive management classes for at least a period of 6 months such that they manage the country effectively and efficiently.

As I have got the opportunity to meet the big political leaders of Nepal, what I came to know is that they lack the knowledge of effective management. I have also written an article titled “Do young people have a voice in their society: An unexpected meet with the political leaders of Nepal.”
It can be seen at www.sudiparyal.tigblog.org . Our political leaders are good thinkers and talkers but very poor implementers. They never give an emphasis on doing paper works.






6. If you live in a conflict area, give an example of how life has changed since the beginning of the conflict. How has it changed the way you go to school, or shop, or hang out with your friends?

Daylina, I have also attached the three poems written in various situations of conflicts. Should say I wouldn’t have written these poems if there was no conflict in the place I live. Life has changed drastically! Most of the youths in our country are already in other countries for employment or study purpose. Those who are here are also planning to go abroad because they don’t see any scope in Nepal in the presence of varied conflicts. The pathetic plight is that they still love Nepal nevertheless they don’t want to return back dues to the conflicts in Nepal. Rather most of them try their best becoming the citizens of other countries.

Yes there are also very good emerging youth leaders in Nepal. But in this context they are not getting the freedom to express. If the expression affects the rebels then that person will have to die. So I see there is less chance of growth of challenging youth leadership.

Natives of the many remote villages normally don’t visit their relatives and the village just in fear of the rebels. The general public is forced to donate money and work according to the plans of Rebels .So we are in a stage of lack of freedom and full of violence and fear. Still they say they are doing for the public welfare. Let us see how far they will go so that they will start thinking about peace.

Usually the schools and colleges are closed due to the protest from the different political and nonpolitical parties. So the teachers are unable to finish their courses on time. That’s why the students are suffering a lot. Also we have to think many times whenever we feel like roaming the outskirts of the city. First of all parents are very worried about the safety and security. As there are violent activities going on outside most of the time.

7:33 PM 7/3/2004

The fucking Dramma of no reasons;
who you believe and who you sacrifice for..
Where the rotten eggs stincting? After all for The selvage of egotism and egoism...
What if you get and if even dont want to...
Look! Fucking crowd is after the same.
With the fairy dramma of no reasons.

what for those cold wet tears scintillate inside nowhere.
Whom you listen to? Who listens the crap you occupied with..
The sky turns ammaculate blue,
leftover of the dead culture is flown far away.
what was these pieces of change for .....
Gone is gone to come and come...It is coming soon....
Check yourself, is it stuffed within you?
For It is flown away by the calm breeze
destination is you..
Cause, Fucking crowd is after the same.
With the fairy dramma of no reasons.

Can you care a damn to what you care...
Who loves you Imagine what for?
How can you search for the reason to smile by yourself?
.. Who snatched and what for ...
What he get? where you are? but how far?
Fool fooling an intelligent to be a king of fool.
Be silent! a deadly dramma is goin on and on...
Why to take part and how you ignore....
Who questions for no reasons..
will you get answers of reasons?
Cause, Fucking crowd is after the same.
With the fairy dramma of no reasons.
All the best for the performance.
You ve got the role of a living dead.
the major character of this stage..
Decision is up to You..
Whom you ask for a reason to...
For Bullets are weak to kill the dead.
Yes you are on the stage ,
Choice is yours!
You act or you die everyday.
Cause, Fucking crowd is after the same.
With the fairy dramma of no reasons.

Yearning a life occupied of Legends,
Samasitohna Maanchhe..............