EFLU

Prof. Rajneesh Arora

Department

Department of Linguistics and Contemporary English, Regional Campus, Lucknow

School

Regional Campus, Lucknow

Contact Details

: rajneesharora@efluniversity.ac.in

Academic Details

Academic qualifications

Ph.D. English (Literature/ Linguistics)

Panjab University

M.A. Language Teaching (Applied Linguistics)

Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

M. Litt. English (Linguistics and Phonetics)

CIEFL, Hyderabad,

PGDTE (Postgraduate Diploma in the Teaching of English)

CIEFL, Hyderabad,

Brief bio note

Rajneesh Arora is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Contemporary English, Regional Campus, Lucknow. Before joining Lucknow in 1994, he worked in RIE, Chandigarh from 1990 to 1994. He did his Ph. D in discourse analysis of drama from Panjab University. He has an MA in English literature from Kurukshetra University. For his M. Litt. and PGDTE in CIEFL, he worked in the area of Phonetics. He was awarded British Council Hornby Trust Scholarship in 2003-04 for his MA Language Teaching (Applied Linguistics) in Lancaster University, UK and he was a Visiting Fellow in the University of Warwick, UK in 2008. He has presented papers and given talks in several national and international conferences. He has written one textbook and a number of articles in books and journals. He has also written modules for E-Paathshala on Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis and has been guiding research (20 M.Phil. dissertations and 18 Ph.D. theses till date) in the interdisciplinary areas of Linguistics, Literature and English Language Teaching. While at RIE, he produced spoken English materials and wrote radio lessons for All India Radio. His current interests include discourse analysis, pragmatics, gender, advertising, and English language teaching in India. At present, he is the Director, Regional Campus, Lucknow. He was also the Director, Regional Campus, Shillong for a year in 2021-2022.

Thrust areas of interest and research

Discourse Analysis of Literary and Non-literary Texts
Critical Media Studies (Advertising)
English Language Teaching in India
Advanced Grammar and Phonetics

Research articles published in peer reviewed journals with ISSN no.

⚽ ‘A Pluralistic Analysis of Literary Trauma in Patrick O Brien’s Short Story “Samphire”’ Focus on ELT (FELT), Regional Institute of English, Chandigarh, Vol. 36, No. 1&2, April 2020, pp. 48-60, ISSN: 0976-1306 (Co-authored)

⚽ ‘English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Through Integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)’ Focus on ELT (FELT), Regional Institute of English, Chandigarh, 2017, ISSN: 0976-1306 (Co-authored)

⚽ ‘Discourse Construction of Gender in an Advertisement in Woman’s Era.’ Literati. 2015. Daviet, Jalandhar ISSN: 2248-9576 (Co-authored)

⚽ Daniel Z. Kadar and Michael Haugh (2013) Understanding Politeness. Cambridge: CUP; pp 295. (Reviewed by Rajneesh Arora, EFL University, Lucknow Campus in Indian Linguistics 75 (1-2) 2014: 167 – 169 (ISSN: 0378 – 0759) (Book Review Article)

⚽ ‘Language of Advertisements: Interpretation and Over-interpretation’. Literati. Winter 2012 Daviet, Jalandhar ISSN: 2248-9576

⚽ ‘Critical Pedagogy: Developing Critical Reading Skills’. Aligarh Journal of Linguistics Volume 2, Numbers 1-2, pp 142-153, 2012. (A Refereed Journal brought out by Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University) ISSN 2249-1511

⚽ ‘A Stylistic Analysis of Two Advertisements from Indian and British Editions of Cosmopolitan’ in SPIEL Journal of English Studies, Volume 5, Numbers 1 & 2, January-July 2011, pp 45-62 (ISSN 2249-3808)

⚽ ‘Stylistic Effects in Patrick O’Brien’s Short Story ‘Samphire’.’ Indian Ethos Vol.1 / No.2, pp 149-169, Winter 2011 (ISSN: 2249-4324)

⚽ ‘Interplay of the Verbal and the Visual: An Analysis of Two Print Advertisements’. ELT Quarterly, Vol. 13, Issue 1-2, 2011, pp 10-17 (ISSN: 0975-0258)

⚽ ‘Sinclair and Coulthard’s Approach to Discourse Analysis and Related Studies: An Overview’ FELT (Focus on ELT Study) Volume 29 No. 2/ April 2011, pp 54-66 (ISSN: 0976-1306)

⚽ Evaluating Language Teaching Tasks: The Case of 16 tasks designed by ‘Specialists’ and ‘Non-Specialist’ Teachers. Dialog: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 17 (2009), Punjab University, pp. 100 – 118, 2009. (ISSN 0975-4881)

⚽ Innovations in ELT: An Evaluation of the CBSE - ELT Project in India. FELT- Focus on ELT, Vol. 25, No. 1, 25 – 32, October 2005

⚽ Theories of Phonological Analysis. RIE FOCUS, Journal of ELT, Issue X, 1 – 4, March 1992

⚽ English in Haryana: Some Observations. RIE FOCUS, Journal of ELT, Issue VIII, 23 – 25, March 1991

Material Production

E CONTENT

⚽ ‘Deixis I’. E Pathshala, UGC Module, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis paper, Linguistics. 2016 (Co-authored)

⚽ ‘Deixis II’. E Pathshala, UGC Module, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis paper, Linguistics. 2016 (Co-authored).

⚽ ‘Presupposition I’. E Pathshala, UGC Module, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis paper, Linguistics. 2016 (Co-authored).

⚽ ‘Presupposition II’. E Pathshala, UGC Module, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis paper, Linguistics. 2016 (Co-authored).

⚽ ‘Birmingham Model of Classroom Discourse’. E Pathshala, UGC Module, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis paper, Linguistics. 2016.

⚽ ‘Extending the Scope of Birmingham Model’. E Pathshala, UGC Module, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis paper, Linguistics. 2016.

⚽ ‘Analysing Dramatic Discourse Using the Birmingham Model’. E Pathshala, UGC Module, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis paper, Linguistics. 2016.

MATERIAL PRODUCTION (Cassettes)

⚽ A set of two cassettes on poetry recitation entitled, “Reading Poetry: Out and Aloud” with a booklet containing the transcripts of poems, 1994 (Co-produced) at the Regional Institute of English, Chandigarh.

⚽ A set of two cassettes entitled, “A Course in Pronunciation” based on English textbooks of classes VI-XII (1993) (Co-produced) at the Regional Institute of English, Chandigarh.

Books authored, edited, chapters in books with ISBN no.

Book(s)

⚽ Pearls: An Integrated Course in English 6, Main Course Book, New Delhi, Future Kids Publications, 2012 (ISBN: 978-93-81782-05-7)

Book Chapters

⚽ ‘Bringing Critical Pedagogy into ELT Classrooms’ in Khanna, AL and Anju Sehgal Gupta (eds.) 2012, Essential Readings for Teachers of English: From Research Insights to Classroom Practices. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan. ISBN 978 81 250 4668 4

⚽ ‘Limits to Compositionality of Meaning: Some Notes with Reference to English and Hindi’. Hasnain, S. Imtiaz and Shreesh Chaudhary (eds.) Problematizing Language Studies: Cultural, Theoretical and Applied Perspectives. New Delhi: Aakar Books, pp. 372 – 386, 2010. (ISBN 978-93-5002-084-5)

Research projects (ongoing and completed)

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Administrative responsibilities

⚽ Director, EFL University, Regional Campus, Lucknow (from January 2023 till date)

⚽ Director, EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong (from September 2021 to January 2023)

⚽ Director, EFL University, Regional Campus, Lucknow (from July 2014 to September 2021)

⚽ Head, Department of Linguistics and Contemporary English ( 2009 to 2012)

⚽ Head (in Charge), Department of English Literature (from 2009 till date)

⚽ Assistant Coordinator, GOI Schemes of Financial Assistance for Publication and Purchase of Books in English Language (from 2001 to 2014)

Professional affiliations (membership, editorial board, etc.,)

⚽ Member, Board of Studies, Department of English, Central University of Punjab

⚽ Member, School Board of School of Languages and Literature, Central University of South Bihar

⚽ Member, English Language Teachers Association of India (ELTAI)

⚽ Member, Linguistic Society of India

⚽ Member, International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ISFLA)

Awards and recognitions

⚽ Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Applied Linguistics, the University of Warwick, UK from May 2008 to September 2008

⚽ British Council Hornby Trust fellowship in MA Language Teaching, Applied Linguistics (2003-04) in Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

⚽ CIEFL Junior Research Fellowship in M. Litt. (1989-90) in CIEFL, Hyderabad

⚽ CIEFL Scholarship in PGDTE (1988-89) in CIEFL, Hyderabad.

⚽ N Krishnaswamy Endowment Prize in ‘The Teaching of Grammar’- A Course in the Second Semester of PGDTE in CIEFL, Hyderabad

⚽ National Merit Scholarship on the basis of Matriculation Examination (1981), Haryana Board