Kamal Poudel

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                                Curriculum Vitae

 

Name                                                     :               KAMAL POUDEL

Date of Birth                                        :               5th Aug, 1971

Sex                                                         :               Male

Nationality                                            :               Nepali

Father’s Name                                      :               Devendra Pd. Poudel (Upadhyaya)

Mother’s Name                                    :               Maya Upadhyaya

Address                                                  :               Permanent: Bharapur-9, Chitwan, Nepal

Temporary :Banasthali, Kathmandu

Contact Address                                  :               E-mail: kamalpoudel@gmail.com

Erahity, Banasthali, Kathmandu

Res.: Phone No. +977-1-4880846,

Cell Ph.: +977-9851060155

  1. Academic Qualification
S.N. Level Institution Major Subjects Board Year
01 MA (Linguistics) University Campus, Kirtipur, Kathmandu Language Teaching, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics/Pragmatics, Phonetics/Phonology, *Dissertation, etc. Tribhuvan University 1998
02 MA(English) University Campus, Kirtipur, Kathmandu Hist. of Eng. Lit., Criticism, Prose, Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Lit. Theory, Eng. Lang. Teaching etc. Tribhuvan University 1996
03 BA (English) Birendra Campus, Bharatpur, Chitwan English Language and Literature (Drama, Fiction, Poetry, Prose)

Political Science (International Relation and Law, Constitution, etc.)

 Tribhuvan University 1992
04 PCL (English) Birendra Campus, Bharatpur, Chitwan English Language and Literature

Political Science

Economics

 Tribhuvan University 1989
05 SLC Prembasti Secondary School, Prembasti, Chitwan Mathematics, English, Science, Nepali, etc. School Leaving Certificate Board of Nepal 1987

 

*The Dissertation title in MA in Linguistics is Bote Verb Morphology. The work mainly focuses on the morphological structures of the Bote verbs. It firstly gives the introductory description of the language. The language is one of the endangered languages spoken in the western region of Nepal. It belongs to the Indo-European Language family. Then, it explains the nomenclature of the language, its linguistic demography, phonological sketch, nominal system etc. Afterwards, the work analyses the morphological system of the verbs. The subsequent chapter deals with the analysis of transitivity of the verbs, causative and passive construction, and formation of compound verbs in Bote. Finally, the work delivers conclusions.

 

  1. Job Experience
  2. Name and address of employer

Central Department of Linguistics

Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur

Ph. 4-330696

Position presently held:Lecturer

Date of employment: From January  2001 to the date

Duties and responsibilities:

  • Teaching various subjects (eg Language Teaching, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Semantics etc) to the students of Master’s Degree in Linguistics.
  • Running internal and practical tests and managing feedback to the students.

 

 

 

  1. Name and address of the employer

Padma Kanya College, Ratnadeep Bhawan, Bagbazaar, Kathmandu

Ph. 4-224149

Position held: Part time teacher

Date of employment: From August 1999  to August 2006

Duties and responsibilities:

  • Teaching Stylistics and Applied Linguistics/Teaching Language and Literature to the students of Master’s Degree in English
  • Get involved in internal testing and evaluation of the academic progress of students.
  • Teaching Nepali Linguistics, grammar to the students of Master’s Degree in Nepali.

 

 

 

 

  1. Name and address of the employer                                                     

Nepal English Language Teacher’s Association (NELTA)

Nature of Job: Volunteer (Unpaid)

Ph. 4-331843, GPO 11110, Kathmandu

Position held:

  1. Executive Member (2000-2003)
  2. Membership Secretary (2003-2007)
  3. Secretary (2007-2011)
  4. General Secretary (2011-2013)
  5. Editor (From Feb 2000 to Feb 2007)
  6. Peer Reviewer of the Journal of NELTA (2009 tothe date)
  7. Editor and moderator of http://neltachoutari.wordpress.com/

Date of employment: From February 2000 to Feb 2013

(Nepal English Language Teachers’ Association (NELTA) was founded in 1992 as a professional, non-profit making, non-political and volunteer ELT organization with the view to enhance professionalism of teachers of English in Nepal. Since its inception, NELTA has been rigorously working to provide teachers of English with a platform to share their ideas and expertise. Its vision is to enhance the quality of English language teaching and learning in Nepal and promote professionalism among the ELT professionals, and the mission is to establish itself as a forum for enhancing the quality of English language teaching and learning through professional networking, support and collaboration.)

Duties and responsibilities (Voluntary Service):

  • Working as NELTA national trainer of English for the teachers of Primary, Lower Secondary, and Secondary levels.
  • Get involved in the educational programmes and activities which are organized by the government agencies in collaboration with NELTA.
  • Managing the workshops, training, paper presentations programmes etc during the international conference of NELTA, which takes place in Nepal every year.
  • Organizing programmes and activities that are directly or indirectly contributing to facilitate and promote the English Language Teaching in Nepal.
  • Keeping records of all NELTA members.
  • Co-ordinating the branches of NELTA.
  • Editing and peer-reviewing the articles for the journal of NELTA, its newsletter and the blog-zine http://neltachoutari.wordpress.com/.
  • Preparing training manuals for different levels.
  • Involved in preparing the package of English Language Improvement Course for the primary English teachers of Nepal, which was produced by NELTA in collaboration with British Council.
  • Involved in the preparation of Training Package for the Secondary School Teachers, which was produced by NELTA in collaboration with British Council.
  • Involved in preparing the package of English Language Improvement Course for the Members of the Parliament of Nepal which was organized by NELTA.
  • Involved in developing the syllabus, courses and teaching-reading materials for the improvement of English for the Nepal Government Officers which was organized by NELTA along with Worldwide Avenue in July, 2008.
  • Taught English course to the Nepal Government Officers in August and September, 2008.
  • As general secretary: solicit papers for the presentation; organize the conference bringing scholars from more than 25 countries who share the researches carried out in the field of ELT in Nepal and beyond.
  1. Linguistic Society of Nepal

Kirtipur, Kathmandu.

Position held (Voluntary Service):

  • Secretary (office) from 2000-2002, b. Editor (2002 to 2004).
  • Executive member from 2002 to 2006, and Secretary from Nov 2010 to June 2012.
  • General Secretary from July 2012 to July 2014
  • Vice-president from July 2014 to July 2016
  • President from July 2016 to July 2018

Duties and responsibilities:

  • As a Secretary (office)
    • Kept the official records orderly, and facilitated the activities and programmes run by the Linguistic Society of Nepal.
  • As an Editor
    • Collected the articles (viz. on core linguistics and also applied linguistics areas) and edit them for the journal, which the society publishes every year.
  • As the General Secretary
    • Solicit papers for the presentation; organize the conference bringing scholars from more than 25 countries who share the researches carried out in the field of linguistics across the world.
  • As the President
    • Lead the Society and work in collaboration with the like minded organization to develop the language and linguistic activities in Nepal.
  1. Name and address of the employer

Bhasha Sanchar Project (Jointly organized by Deparment of Linguistics,TU, Madan Puraskar Pustakalay, Lancaster University,UK, European Union) Patan Dhoka, Lalitpur, Ph. 5-521393

Position held: Linguist (Part time)

Date of employment: From March 2005 to Sep 2007

Duties and responsibilities:

  • As a linguist involved in preparing a corpus based Nepali Dictionary entitled ‘Contemporary Nepali Dictionary’.

 

  1. Name and address of the employer

Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuwan Univesrity

Position held:Editor for the journal Contribution to Nepalese Studies

Date of employment: From Jan 2008 to the 2012

Duties and responsibilities:

  • Editing and peer-reviewing the articles for the journal Contribution to Nepalese Studies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Publications
  2. Articles
  1. Co-author of ‘Bote Language’, Bandhu et al. Gipan, 1:1, June, 1999, pp. 100–141.
  2. Author of ‘Bote Bhasha’: Pristhabhumi ra Bhisheshata’ (Bote Language: Background and Featuress), Sayapatri, 5:1, 999.
  3. Book Review: Yadava, Y. P. and W.W. Glover. (eds) Topics in Nepalese Linguistics, Published in The Kathmandu Post, 16 Jan. 2000.
  4. Book Review: Bhattarai, G.R., Translation Studies (Published in the Journal of NELTA. Aug. 2000).
  5. Language, Literature and the Learner (Published in the Journal of NELTA Aug. 2000 Vol. 5, No. 2)
  6. Bote Compound Verbs (Published in the Journal of Linguistics Society of Nepal 2000).
  7. Linguistic Tools and Literature in Classroom (Published in the Journal of NELTA Aug. 2000 Vol. 5, No. 2).
  8. Book Review: Bhattarai, A. Current Trends of Teaching Grammar and Vocabulary. (Journal of NELTA Aug. 2000 Vol. 5, No. 2).
  9. Bote Be Verb Verbs (Published in the Journal of Linguistic Society of Nepal 2001).
  10. ‘Role of NELTA in Changing ELT Context’, an article published in the Kathmandu Post, 19th February 2003.
  11. ‘Using Reading Text at Lower Level’ (an article published in the Journal of NELTA, Dec. 2003, Vol. 8, No. 1 and 2).
  12. Schools and Teachers: Motivate Children, an article published onhttp://neltachoutari.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/schools-and-teachers-motivate-children/ in the issue of August, 2010.
  13. NELTA Choutari, Networking and Nepalese Teachers, an article published onhttp://neltachoutari.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/neltachoutari-networking-and-nepalese-teachers/
  1. Papers presented and Training conducted
  1. Teaching of Pronunciation, paper presented at the conference of NELTA Chitwan (Nepal English Language Teacher’s Association Nepal), 1998.
  2. Temporal Deixis in Bote Imperative, paper presented at the 5th Himalayan Languages Symposium, Kathmandu, 13-15, September, 1999.
  3. Teaching of Tense and Aspect in English paper presented at the 6th International Conference of NELTA, 20-22, February, 1999.
  4. Teaching of Information Question, paper presented at the 7thInternational Conference of NELTA, 25-27. February, 2000.
  5. Causative Construction in Bote, paper presented at the International Conference of Linguistic society of Nepal, 25-26 Dec. 2000.
  6. Conducted Training Programme for the ‘SLC Examination Orientation and Language Improvement Teacher Training Package for Secondary English Teachers of Nepal’ organized by NELTA in collaboration with SNV Nepal, in Sindhuli and Janakpur in June, 2003
  7. Using Literature in the Language Classroom for the Language Development, paper presented at SPELT conference in Karachi, Pakistan in 2004.
  8. Be Verb in Bote, paper presented at the International Conference of Linguistic society of Nepal, 25-26 Nov. 2005.
  9. Reasons for using Literature in the Language Classroom  paper presented at the mini conference of NELTA Nawalparasi, Janaury, 2006
  10. Techniques of Exploiting Literary Texts in the Language Classroom, paper presented at the 10th International Conference of NELTA, 18-20, February 2006.
  11. Literature for the Language Development, paper presented at the mini conference of NELTA Nuwakot, January, 2007
  12. Teaching methods and techniques in an EFL classroom, paper presented at the mini conference of NELTA Dang, Nepal, December, 2008.
  13. Teaching grammar with the help of pictures in the language classrooms, paper presented at the mini conference of NELTA Birgunj, Nepal, January, 2008.
  14. Raising literary awareness in learners to help enhance their language standard, paper presented at the mini conference of NELTA Birgunj, Nepal, January, 2008.
  15. Provided training to 55 Native English Speakers through TEFL International in Ban Phe, Thailand in September and October, 2008
  16. Five minutes activities in an EFL Classroom, paper conducted at Birgunj NELTA Regional Conference in Sep 2009.
  17. Conducted an ELT training for the teachers of Bright Horizon Children’s Home School, Matatirtha on 23rd Jan, 2010.
  18. Presented a workshop paper entitled Developing learners’ communicative skills: Alternative strategy in EFL classrooms at IATEFL Conference, Harrogate, UK from 7th to 11th April, 2010.
  19. Presented a workshop paper entitled Promoting teachers’ interactive skills for EFL classrooms: strategies for teachers at an International Conference for English Language Teacher Educators organized by British Council and English and Foreign Languages University, Haiderabad in Haidarabad India from 22-24th Jan, 2011.
  20. Presented a workshop paper entitled ‘Enhancing Intrinsic Motivation: Songs and Chants in EFL Classes’ at 16th NELTA international Conference held at DAV Sushil Kedia School Jawalakhel on 18-20 Feb, 2011.
  21. Conducted workshops and plenary sessions for teachers (50 teachers from different levels) of English in Bharatpur, Chitwan on 30th April, 2011on the topics
    1. Developing lesson plans: issues and solutions
    2. Recent trends in ELT
  22. Conducted workshops and plenary sessions for teachers (165 teachers from different levels) of English in Makawanpur, Hetaunda on 25th  June, 2011on the topics
    1. Developing Materials in EFL classrooms
    2. Teaching without materials
    3. Reading through communicative activities
  23. Conducted workshops and plenary sessions to teachers (110 teachers from different levels) of English in Nawalparasi on 26th  June, 2011on the topics
    1. Motivating students: learner oriented activities
    2. Teaching literature in ELF Classes
    3. Useful techniques in teaching vocabulary items
  24. Conducted two day teacher training for the Fulbright Scholars concentrating on curriculum, syllabus design, testing, and materials development in August, 2011. They are working as English Teaching Assistants under Fulbright Scholarship Program in Nepal.
  25. Conducted an ELT training for the teachers of Bright Horizon Children’s Home School, Matatirtha on 10th Dec, 2011 on the topics
    1. Enhancing Listening Skill: Strategies
    2. Interactive Songs in English
    3. Workshops on building EFL Interactive Skills
  26. Conducted workshops and plenary sessions for teachers (115 teachers from different levels) of English in Sindhuli on 24th Dec, 2011on the topics
    1. Use of drama to increase communicative skills of students
    2. Games that nurture the young learners
    3. Teaching writing classifications essays to the adult learners
    4. Using online materials in ELF classes
  27. Conducted a workshop on Growing without Tears: games and Activities in the EFL classrooms at the 17th International Conference of NELTA on 22-23 Feb, 2012 at Small Heaven Higher Secondary School, Kalyanpur, Chitwan, Nepal.
  28. Conducted a workshop on Strategies in Teaching Listening at the 17th International Conference of NELTA on 22-23 Feb, 2012 at Small Heaven Higher Secondary School, Kalyanpur, Chitwan, Nepal.
  29. Conducted a workshop entitled ‘Developing L2 Learners’ Language Skills: Strategies of Using Interactive Materials and Reducing Errors’ at The MATSDA/University of Limerick Conference: Applied Linguistics and Materials Development on 9-10th June, 2012 in Limerick, Republic of Ireland.

 

  1. Participation
  1. Participated in a Two-week Training Programme in Linguistics organized by the Central Department of Linguistics, 8-20, June, 1997.
  2. Participated in the International Conferences of NELTA from 1997 to the date.
  3. Participated in the Research Methodology and Thesis Writing Seminar cum-Workshop conducted by Ronal W Adams of La Trobe University, 6th – 11th Jan. 2001, at Little Angel’s School, Kathmandu.
  4. Participated in the Teacher Trainer’s Training Programme organized by British Council and NELTA 20th – 23rd Feb. 2001.
  5. Participated in the Trainer’s Training Programme for the ‘SLC Examination Orientation and Language Improvement Teacher Training Package for Secondary English Teachers of Nepal’ organized by NELTA in collaboration with SNV Nepal, held in Kathmandu from 15th to 17th February 2003.
  6. Participated in the Teacher Trainer’s Training Programme conducted by Penny Ur and jointly organized by British Council and NELTA Feb. 2005.
  7.  Participated in the Teacher Trainer’s Training Programme conducted by A.Underhill and jointly organized by British Council and NELTA  Feb. 2006.
  8. Participated in the Teacher Trainer’s Training Programme conducted by T. Rodgers and jointly organized by American Centre and NELTA Feb. 2006.
  9. Participated in Workshop-Seminar on New Syllabus for MA in Linguistics organized by Central Department of Linguistics, November 5-16, 2006.
  10. Participated in Workshop on Research Methodology organized by Central Department of Linguistics, December 22-24, 2000.
  11. Participated in a Workshop-Seminar on Linguistics organized by the Central Department of Linguistics, 10-16 July, 1998.
  12. Participated in a Workshop on Computational Linguistics, by Harold Somers form Manchester University, UK, organized by Bhasha Sanchar Project, March, 2006.
  13. Participated in a Workshop on Corpus Linguistics, by Andrew Hardie from Lancaster University, UK, organized by Bhasha Sanchar Project. 2005.
  14. Participated in a one month long Teaching English as Foreign or Second Language orgnised by TEFL International, Thailand in Ban Phe, Rayong, Thailand from 1 Apr to 30 Apr, 2008.
  15. Participated in the program Study of American History and Civilizations from 13th June to 26th July, 2009 held at New York University, New York, USA.
  16. Participated in a training conducted by Prof Adrian Holliday at British Council from 24-25 Feb 2011 in Kathmandu.

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