LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:4 April 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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Novels as a Tool to Enhance Thinking Skills –
An Activity-Based Language Teaching Method Using Vikram Seth’s
An Equal Music

T. Sathya, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate
Dr. R. Saravana Selvan, M.A., M.Phil., M.Ed., P.G.D.J., P.G.D.T.E., Ph.D.

Abstract

Thinking skill is an essential element of most profession in this competitive world. It is a vital part in the process of learners’ progress. Thinking Skills are the mental processes of solving problems, making decisions, asking questions, making plans, passing judgments, organizing information and creating new ideas. Novels lend a hand to improve the productive thinking skills of the learners.

The range and length of Vikram Seth’s literary productivity present a ground-breaking challenge to undertake the power of thinking competence. His An Equal Music is shot through with the elements of European classical legacy. It is based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice that has haunted music lovers through the ages. It managed to convey the psychology, thinking abilities even the human potentialities of those who practice music for a living. It displays a paradoxical twinning of discordance, anxiety and tension with aspirations to harmony.

Vikram Seth used a strategy to detail a particular kind of egotistical or illusion-ridden protagonist, Michael, a professional violinist. He never forgot his love for Julia, a pianist and their musical career was affected by this affair. The story of this novel induces the productive thinking skills of the learners. This paper aims to show how the activities are considered as the practical approach to the acquisition and learning, and also aims to present how the Activity Based Language Teaching assists the learners to improve their thinking skills through Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music.

Introduction

Indian Writing in English has a diversity of themes, forms and styles. Along with Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth is arguably one of the three Indian English authors today. He has proved his power of flexing and using the English language in his literary works. His reputation as a stylist and a perfectionist is also supplemented by the hype around the advances his fiction receives and his location as a celebrity in the global literary market place.

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T. Sathya, M.A., Ph.D. Research Scholar (Full-Time)
Department of English and Foreign Languages
Bharathiar University
Coimbatore
Tamilnadu 641046
India
sathyathangavel.89@gmail.com

Dr. R. Saravana Selvan, M.A., M.Phil., M.Ed., P.G.D.J., P.G.D.T.E., Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Head i/c.
Department of English and Foreign Languages
Bharathiar University
Coimbatore 641046
Tamilnadu
India
raja_saravanan@rediffmail.com
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