English Language Departmental Magazine - PSAU

Reports REPORT
INTERNATIONAL
MOTHER
LANGUAGE DAY
CELEBRATION
M o n t h l y N e w s l e t t e r
nglish and Translation club celebrated International mother language day on 18th Feb 2019. The main
purpose of celebrating this day was to promote the awareness of language and cultural diversity among the
students of PSAU. The celebration began with painting exhibition by our young talent Ms. Atheer Al Malki
followed by literature exhibition. There were various stall depicting important writers belonging to
different periods of English literature, in particular William Shakespeare. Our students also arranged many
corners highlighting world languages like Turkish, Urdu, Hindi, Korean, Japanese, Arabic and English. In
these corners the participant students spoke about interesting facts like History, culture, usage and
vocabulary of these languages. A game was also organized in which the visiting students were encouraged to
speak or write an equivalent word of English in language of their choice on the board provided to them.
There were few corners about ethics where the students demonstrated work ethics and also spoke about the
importance of ethics in one’s life. The ethics corner was supervised by Ms. Warda.
The exhibition was inaugurated by the Head of the
department Dr. Fawziah Harshan who interacted with all the
participant students, listened to them patiently and encouraged
them tremendously. She took active interest to know about
history, culture and usage of various languages and was
delighted when students greeted her in Korean and Chinese
salutation. She was given her name written in Korean and
Chinese by the participant students which pleased her very
much. Her visit gave a huge boast to the student’s morale. All
the members of the staff and students of English department as
well as other departments attended the celebration. Overall this
activity was a huge success where in all the students took part
actively and enthusiastically. The students and staff enjoyed the
day very .much as this activity was like a breath of fresh air to all
of them. The programme was conceptualized and supervised by
Ms. Sameena Banu with the help and support of Ms. Sara
Ghanem.
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