Good day, Dr. Praveen Kumar S. I'm Arjun. I've had a look through your background and your professional record. I'm interested in hearing more about your work and how you see yourself fitting in here with our faculty. Ready to start?

Yeah.

A very good afternoon.

Uh, very good app, very, very good afternoon. Uh, it gives me an immense pleasure to speak to you regarding this uh, initial stage of scrutiny, but difficulty positions at uh, vit vendor.

Good afternoon, Professor. Please go ahead and share your professional journey in academia.

I'm Doctor Praveen Kumar.

An assistant professor.

Was working in Crescent School of Law at BS Abdirahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology.

I have been working as a language facilitator.

In the year 2023 to to 2026.

Over these three years, I have contributed in a different discipline.

Like class advisor.

Like book member of Board of studies.

Such as student counselor.

And Proctor.

And ask for this.

Pardon.

Thank you.

Dr. Praveen Kumar, thank you for joining today. Based on your credentials, it appears you hold a Ph.D. in English Language Teaching from VIT University and have a background in supporting marginalized students and oration excellence. Shall we begin with verifying your skills aligned to the English Professor role? First, I'd like to confirm your expertise in **Digital Humanities**. Could you elaborate on your approach to integrating Digital Humanities into English education?

Yeah, much pleasure.

Uh, we are living in 21st century.

And without a technology approach, we may not teach and empower the students for the next generations.

So teaching English is an important and very mandatory for the upcoming generations and even a collaborative is very very important to empower the.

At present generations.

So I would like to introduce EA based inter integrative teaching method.

It's very important for the upcoming learners and the students, and it will make the learners and the teachers will be.

Joyful.

So as a teacher, as a language facilitator, I will ensure my students to progress in the right way by implementing student centered approach. Thank you.

And the student centered approach.

Could you provide an example of how you might apply this AI-based integrative teaching method in a classroom setting? Specifically, how would it work in engaging students with a literary text?

There are two different method ion like the I'm going to incorporate in my teaching in the classroom. The first one is group activity. When I'm going to conduct a group activity. So every nowadays students are very curious to attach the technology. Without technology, students are not living in this. In this modern world is peer learning when I am introducing the AI and make the group to understand the concept first.

Then they will I will queue how to express, how to speak, how to pronounce the exact word with the correct accent, rhythm and intonations. The peer groups they themselves evaluate the mistakes as a language facilitator will moderate and will guide them to the extra level. Another important work is asset two different ways. The first one is peer group and.

Group activities. The next one is individual activity.

If I am giving a dance to the students.

The students will follow my words if the students are following my words. Ultimately, humans are made to make mistakes.

If I am introducing AI, students will not commit any mistakes the coordination with the support of teachers. So I'm going to implement two different way, one is individual activity, another one is group and peer activity with the collaborative of AI. Thank you.

Thank you for detailing those methods. Let’s move to your expertise in **Commonwealth Literature**. How do you approach teaching Commonwealth literature in a way that highlights its cultural and historical relevance?

Yes, uh, we know.

Please continue, Professor. Could you elaborate on your approach to teaching Commonwealth Literature?

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Sir, your voice was not clear. It was disconnecting. May I know the reason behind that?

Thank you for letting me know, Professor. The connection seems stable now. Let me repeat: How do you approach teaching Commonwealth Literature in a way that highlights its cultural and historical relevance?

So for Common, we want to teach Commonwealth literature should lower that the breadth and the depth of the culture.

Because the Commonwealth literature moves around the way.

And the people.

Who are from the other?

The site of the Commonwealth.

They are adopting lifestyle liberalization, privatization and globalization in and around the world. People who are adopting that Commonwealth cultures and the traditions. Without that culture and the traditions now in the 21st century, the generation may not live.

So as a teacher, let me understand that culture and the lifestyles, then I'll make the stolen history understood this cultural lifestyle of common literature. For example, let me say one important saying of.

Transaspecton.

He stated that.

Reading is important activity for enhancing your language skills, he says. Readers are.

Not a leaders.

All the readers are not the leaders but all the leaders are readers. So if you want to inculcate for understanding a Commonwealth cultures by reading through extensive reading that students will understand easily.

Thank you.

Thank you for that insightful perspective. Next, let’s discuss **English Language Teaching**. Could you describe your strategy for designing lessons that accommodate diverse proficiency levels within the classroom?

Yes. So the English language teaching is nothing about enhancing the skills.

So yet skills are.

Or different skills we have in English such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. Those skills can be classified into two the oneness input skill that is receptive skills. Another two skills are output skill that is productive skills. Input skills are listening and reading.

Please

And output skills are that is productive skills are speaking and writing. So as a language facilitator while we teach English language teaching or while to teach English as a language for them.

Faster secure subjects. I will focus on these four skills because without enhancing these four skills in English language teaching, they may not get they may not be progressing well in academic success. As a researcher, as a language facilitator, as a English professor, I will ensure that my students, all my students should attain hundred person progress in whole language skills. For that, let me introduce one important.

Are important activity that is explicit in structure. Explicit instruction is one of the best method to incorporate in the classroom for enhancing the language progress. If the students are showing the progress in their language skills, their academic progress will reach.

Person make you so.

Thank you for that explanation, Professor. To deepen this, could you explain how you would implement explicit instruction for the writing skill specifically?

Yes, writing is one of the greatest art.

They are the artist.

Most of the great writers could say they followed.

Most of the time.

Despite the quality of reading, the developing they are developing the writing. So writing is ultimately A predominant and extraordinary skills for that that explicit. Explicit is nothing about clear crystal teaching.

A group of words I will provide. With the help of group of words I'll make the students to frame a sentence. The help now or the group of sentence I'll make them to write a paragraph.

What clear crystal teaching is about, I will ensure that I will give a small words.

Every day I'll give a practice the clear and the crystal to reach the objectives of writing without any grammatical errors, without any jargon. So I'll ensure that my students will write coherently, logically and well structured by.

Guide guiding of expressed instruction.

Thank you for sharing that structured approach. Let’s now assess your ability to teach both theory and practical laboratory courses. Could you outline how you balance theoretical concepts with practical application in your teaching?

Yes, Sir. So it is very important that we are always rely with the theories.

But the after learning a theory, we have to implement the laboratory. When you are moving to the laboratory that is a trial and error based cetera.

I will focus on parallel.

Theoretically and laboratorily, and I'll give 50%. I will give 50% for laboratory and I'll give 50% per theoretically, because theoretically is also important. After learning a theory, they should implement their theory and their laboratory. They should check, they should analyze the progress of the development of the particular skills. I will concentrate on these two.

Thank you for articulating that balance. Shifting now to **student assessment**: How do you evaluate students effectively during exams or projects? Could you describe your approach?

The first thing.

When you want to evaluate it.

But you are.

Am I audible, Sir?

Yes, I can hear you now. Please continue with your explanation regarding effective student evaluation.

Yes, Sir, the first important thing is.

Purpose behind for evaluating is to see the progress of the particular subjects. I will motivate whenever the students fail or whenever the students not showing you progress in the classroom.

If I am motivating them, if I am always encouraging them, if they are committing a mistake, they will never bother about the committing mistakes. They will move forward, they will go ahead for writing the right thing. When the writing are when you are going to evaluate the output, I will appreciate by providing encouraging me and complimentary advices.

And immediately I will expect the same in the answers.

If I'm understanding that my students are writing well after my motivation, after my suggestions towards the progress that examinations, definitely yeah, you will be very happy for that. Another important if I am seeing any students are failing to attain my progress or reaching that up to the level of passing marks, I will go individually to speak.

Everything I will chart on and I'll understand then I'll work on that. What are their lackluster, why they are not showing interest, why they are not progress in the particular discipline. I will spend my time individually, collectively, then I will evaluate.

The blackness, their inability to understand that.

Thank you, Sir.

Yup.

You're welcome, Professor. Let's discuss your capability to **guide student projects and research**. Could you share how you mentor students in selecting research topics and

Yes, yes, thank you so much for this, uh, wonderful questions. I have gained a lot of experience, research experience from one of the prominent university, which is in another than VI developed.

Please continue, Professor. How do you guide students in selecting their research topics and carrying out their

Then after landing that play, that particular place, I came to know that V8, the only place where I learned a lot of research experience after gaining my PhD at BATLR. I can caliber or I am assuring that any students in the world I can guide because research. What is a research? Research is a search for knowledge. If students what search for knowledge? I am a research advisor and a language facilitator will guide them in a systematic way of inquiry.

Because when I landed there, it was a new to me.

Or finding issues and giving a solution for that. So let me give a brief short example how to give an advice or how to choose a research title.

1st I lost my scholars to start reading articles.

I asked my students to read pieces, asked my students to read new innovative ideas. Then I'll ask them to go for literature reviews. After reading literature reviews, I'll guide them. Please. Before reading a literature review, I'll ask them to read What is your problem, What why you want to do research, What year you are going to focus? I'll ask my students.

If my students are not confident, I will guide them.

There are so many problems. There are so many issues out there in the world. There are different disciplines are there in the Every discipline has issues. You have to focus on one problem. If you're choosing a problem, then go for literature review because literature review always supports you can whether you have more or behind. Then after reading literature you you will understand what is the literature gap.

After identifying identifying the literature gap then you will get an idea the methodology how to do this research after having an idea. For example, for a law there is a two different 1 is a doctorate, another one is no doctrine. Whereas in English there are two different research, one is experimental another one is theoretical based that is qualitative and quantitative research. I will make them to understand the methodology at first then I will guide them the primary work that is data collection.

If it is an qualitative research, I'll guide them to choose a primary work or a primary text after the completion of this fact will make them to understand how to write a thesis without any mistakes in a coherent manner. So if I'm guiding my scholars to enriching their research knowledge, my scholars or my students, definitely they will come up with the flying colors. They will come up with a good idea of new university research. They will.

If it is an experimental, I'll get them go for my experiment.

To this nation to the up to the development of this mission. So for choosing a project, projects are two different known as minor project. In other words, major project.

We have ICSR. When you are working for your project, you always comes under ICSR. If you are applying for an ICSR, you must take that current issues. What are the current issues there in the society? How we are going to give a solution for the issues? I'll give them to choose the right issues. I'll write them how to find the problem. For that I'll give them a solution for the problem. Then I'll guide them to write in a effective project.

Best hotels will get uh.

And systematic view of.

Massage. Thank you, Sir.

Thank you for that detailed response, Professor. Moving on to your **communication and teaching approach**, how do you ensure your teaching is structured and easily comprehensible for students at various levels of proficiency?

Thank you, Sir.

Classroom is a holistic place. When you are entering to the holistic place, we keep in mind that it's not an entertainment place.

We are dealing with this.

Am I audible to you?

Am I audible?

The the classroom is in a holistic place. When you are entering into the class, we must ensure that all the students should understand.

Yes, Professor, you are audible. Please continue.

Now all the students should understand the concept.

And I will ensure that all 60 or 80 are 100 students who are in the class, attain all the interest, all the attention towards my teaching.

What we are going to teach.

When I'm about to start this subject, I will give that that is called.

Known to unknown There's a method called a known to unknown. I'll ask few questions related to the topic. Then I'll give a new idea that is called Lol To unknown is the best method of teaching in the classroom. Even any subjects we should encourage. We can motivate students to involve in this classroom because it is a, It is not only a.

Student centered learning It is a teacher learner centered learning.

Because academic processes, without a teacher the learner may not, without a learner the stoacher the teachers may not. Because it is purely a parallel involvement at this integral work of teacher and learner of learning in the classroom. I will ensure that all my 60 students will understood or will understand the subject. They will follow my track.

Thank you.

Yes.

As I said that when you are asking about the research experiences and the research, how you are going to guide the researchers, the project coordinators, I said when I am learning.

Let us now discuss **your research publications**. Could you summarize how your research contributions align with strengthening English education or advancing methodologies in the field?

Research knowledge or research methodology after landed into.

Create alarm.

VAT is a.

Is a light dose for me.

To approach how to write a article.

Because without understanding how to writing an article, we may not publish a quality article in the most international channels. As of now, I have published more than 21 articles in Scopus index as well as in UTC Catalyst journals and I have contributed many articles in book chapters 2.

Vit is the only place I learned which made me to understand the importance of publications.

Certainly, this is the right time if I'm getting a chance to become a professor and create your Lord, I will give and I will contribute my innovative idea in language teaching, especially ELT perspective, because ELP is the very, very, very important and very useful for all the.

Scholars and that's what I'm focusing on yet research because ELT research will always gives more confidence.

And it will help other communities to understand the language perspective. Then, as a professor, I will contribute and I will write a number of new ideas into the article. And I will publish in many international journals, under score Press, Index Terms and Interest Terms and Traders and Web of Science.

Thank you.

Thank

Let us move on to your **industry experience or consultancy projects**. Have you been involved in any industry projects or consultancy roles that contribute to your academic expertise? Could you discuss your experience, if any?

Yes, Sir, I have a quite experience. So I have a quite experience with this, uh, legal fertility. Being a language facilitator, I have contributed to enhancing the advocacy skills. Last, students are very, very, very strong in speaking, but they are very lack in advocacy. Advocacy is nothing about to argue possible perspectively, purposefully with confidently as a language facilitator.

A given law you know what your idea to incorporate to speak in the courtroom and I have given a lot of.

I will give innovative.

Insects to empower their advocacy and their speaking. So these are the my industrial experiences.

Thank you for sharing that. I appreciate your perspective. That concludes the verification of required skills. Thank you for your detailed responses.

Our scheduled time for the interview is now up. Before we conclude, do you have any questions related to the role or the company?

Yes Sir, I have a questions related to my role.

So being English professor, I'm here to teach, I'm here to publish and I'm here to guide and I'm here to guide scholars. We know that our universities providing any unique role other than this.

The role of English Professor here extends beyond traditional teaching, publishing, and guiding scholars. It includes responsibilities such as guiding research in emerging technology specializations relevant to the English field, contributing to consultancy services, promoting industry-institution interactions, and supporting R&D initiatives. The role is designed to integrate innovation and collaboration with a focus on both academic and practical advancements. Does this address your question, Professor?

Yes, thank you, Sir.

You're welcome, Professor. If you have no further questions, would you like to conclude the interview?

May I get that? May I get the information from your side? They have allotted face to face interview that but they are allocating another schedule this online interview. The may I know the purpose behind for this?

I cannot provide specific details behind the scheduling decisions. However, it's often a common practice in academia to have multiple evaluation steps, including online interviews, as part of a comprehensive selection process. This format allows us to assess various skills and compatibility remotely before proceeding to in-person interviews. If there's anything else you'd like to discuss about this process or the role, feel free to ask.

And I have one more questions. May you know your feedback about my interview?

I appreciate your interest in feedback. However, interview feedback, evaluations, or results are typically shared as part of the formal post-interview process by the HR team or the coordinating committee. Rest assured that your responses here will be considered meticulously in the overall evaluation. If there's anything else you'd like to address, let me know.

Thank you so much. Thanks for your quality time. You've asked me wonderful questions. I believe, I hope I've answered all my questions in my way, in my way.

And I'm not feeling well too, even though I am answering all my questions too.

It was pre planned interviews. I'm very confident. I'm very happy to be a part of this interview. Thank you so much.

Thank you for your effort and dedication, even when you're not feeling well. Your commitment is commendable, Professor. If you're ready to conclude, can you confirm that you'd like to end the interview?

Thank you, Sir. Can you confirm?

Yes, we will finalize the meeting.

Professor, to proceed, could you confirm if you're requesting to end the interview? An explicit confirmation, such as "Yes, you can end the interview," will help finalize it.