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MADRI KAKOTIPermanent Add: Fauzdari Patty, Gurudwara Road, Nagaon Assam 782001Add for Correspondence: 33B, Badshahbagh, University of Lucknow, Lucknow 226007 Ph. No. 9971831787, madrikakoti@, DoB: 25th March 1986Education:ABD Scholar in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (with coursework completed in 2012 with 8.25 CGPA on a scale of 9). M.A in Linguistics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, completed in 2011 with 7.5 CGPA.M.A in International Relations from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, with 6.3 CGPA completed in 2009Bachelor of Arts from the Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi in English Literature with a first class and aggregate of 61.6%10+2 from Kendriya Vidyalaya Nagaon, Assam under CBSE board with Maths, English, Biology, Chemistry and Physical Education with an aggregate of 90.0% 10th from Kendriya Vidyalaya Nagaon, Assam under CBSE board with Maths, Science, Social Science, English and Hindi, with an aggregate of 92.4%Projects:Co-investigator in Prof. Kavita Rastogi led project Development of sustainable economic initiatives rooted in the traditional knowledge of Raji community, funded by the Shrikant Joshi Endowment Grant, awarded by the Keystone Foundation in April, 2019.Co-investigator in Prof. Kavita Rastogi led project Revitalising Raji: A workshop series to re-introduce script and encourage its usage, funded by Foundation for Endangered Languages, UK in April, 2018.Co-investigator in Prof. Kavita Rastogi led project An Evaluation of Raji Revitalisation Program, funded by Society for Endangered and Lesser Known Languages in October, 2017.Academic Achievements:Awarded the Fulbright Fellowship in the Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant category in the New York University, for the year 2014-15Awarded the Young Investigator Travel Grant for participation in the XX World Congress on Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders, held in Geneva, Switzerland from 8th-11th December, 2013.Qualified the UGC-JRF in Linguistics, in June 2010.Awarded the Anuradha Bhardwaj Memorial Prize for the third consecutive year for Consistently Good Performance in English Literature in Indraprastha College for Women (2007).Awarded the Smt. Chandrani Devi Kapoor Memorial Prize, the highest honour in the English Department of Indraprastha college for Women for being the highest scorer in the College for the three years combined, with an aggregate of 61.6% in 2007.Awarded the ‘Most Versatile Student’ of the College for the year 2006-07 in Indraprastha College for Women.Awarded the ‘Vidyalaya Blue’ for the best student of Kendriya Vidyalaya Nagaon, Assam in the year 2004.Awarded the Certificate of Excellence by the Central Board of Secondary Education for being among the top 0.1% scorers in Hindi with a 97/100 in AISSCE in 2002.Employment:Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics, University of Lucknow, since May 2016.Primary Instructor of HIND5800—Language, Culture and Society, taught in Fall, 2016 in the Masters Program of Hindi/Urdu Pedagogy in Kean University, New York (online engagement only).Chief Copy Editor for Newsd, a news and media curation and development company during June 2015- April 2016.Invited as Resource Person in Tezpur University, Department of English and Foreign Languages, in November, 2015.Language Teaching Assistant in New York University under the Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant Fellowship, 2014-15.Guest Faculty in the Linguistic Empowerment Cell, Jawaharlal Nehru University from February, 2012 to August, 2014. Guest Faculty in Centre for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University from August 2012 to July 2013.Consortium Member of the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Netherlands sponsored project—Evolution of Semantic Systems from July, 2012-July, 2014.Linguistic Resource Person for the Mother Tongue Survey of India conducted by the Office of the Registrar General of India, from December, 2012-December, 2013. Workshops/Conferences/Seminars:Presented Raji Revitalisation: Preserving traditional knowledge of the Raji community, co-authored with Dr. Kavita Rastogi, Dr. Vishnu Singh and Ajeet Chaudhary at the LCP 2019 organised by RILCA, Mahidol University, Thailand during 17-18th December, 2019. Invited as Alumni Representative to the Fulbright Mid Year Conference held at Washington DC during 11-15 December, 2019.Special talk at Department of English and Linguistics in English and Foreign Languages University, Lucknow, as a former Fulbright fellow about life and responsibilities as a Fulbrighter by the United States India Education Foundation on 7th August, 2018. Presented Revitalising Raji: A Step Ahead, co-authored with Dr. Kavita Rastogi at the 3rd International Conference on Documentary Linguistics, DLAP-3 held in Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand during July 23-24, 2018.Special talk in Isabella Thoburn College as a former Fulbright fellow about life and responsibilities as a Fulbrighter by the United States India Education Foundation on 25th July, 2017. Interacted with students of Department of English and Department of Linguistics in University of Lucknow as a former Fulbright fellow about life and responsibilities as a Fulbrighter, organized by the United States India Education Foundation, on 25th July, 2017.Participated in a 5 day Testing, Evaluation and Paper Setting Workshop organized by the National Testing Service, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, in the Urdu Teaching and Research Centre, Lucknow, from 17th July, 2017 to 21st July, 2017. Served as a Resource Person in Hands on Training on Linguistic Tools, a workshop organized by the Department of Linguistics, University of Lucknow, specifically for its Masters and PhD students, trained the students on how to use PRAAT, a linguistic tool for voice sample analysis, from 29th May, 2017 to 4th June, 2017. Presented a paper titled Designing the Right Material for the Hindi Classroom: A review of Industry Best Practices in the International Seminar on Linguistics and Teaching of Hindi and Other Indian Languages as Foreign Language held at University of Delhi, during February 27th-28th, 2017.Presented a paper titled ?Distorting “translation”: An examination of J-Horror Manga ‘Tomie at the 38th International Conference of the Linguistics Society of India, held at IIT Guwahati, during November 10th-12th, 2016.Presented a paper titled A Descriptive Study of Acoustic Space of Male Heritage HFL Learners in Comparison to Male Native Speakers of Hindi at the International Conference on Hindi Studies, held at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations, Paris, from September 14th-16th, 2016.Selected to give oral presentation and chair a session in the Nationl Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, Atlanta, Georgia for the paper Using response time to grammaticality questions as a diagnostic and assessment tool in April, 2016.Presented a paper titled Behavioural vs Clinical: Ethical Issues in Research Involving Subjects with Parkinson’s Disease in the XX World Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders held in Geneva, Switzerland from 8th December, to 11th December, 2013 with the Young Scientist Travel Grant covering full travel and registration fee.Presented 2013 MEESO International Conference, Luthor University, Yongin— si, Republic of Korea, held during 11th-13th July, 2013, for the paper Language Through Music: Increased Recall Value Through Rhyme and Rhythm.Presented the paper Tracing the Grammaticalisation of Assamese verb ‘luwa’ (to take) from Lexeme to CaseMarker ‘loi’ 5th Austrian Students’ Conference of Linguistics (V. ?sterreichische Studierendenkonferenz der Linguistik – ?SKL 2012),Vienna, Austria.Gave oral presentation for the paper A comparative Study of Bangla and Assamese Classifier System co-authored with Diti Bhadra, in the international Students Conference of Linguistics in India-4, in Mumbai 2010. The paper was published in the conference proceedings.Selected to give oral presentation for the single authored paper Micro-linguistic Areas of South Asia in the 32nd All India Conference of Linguists, in Lucknow 2010. The paper was published in conference proceedings. Selected to give oral presentation for the single authored paper Tomie: From Paper Pages to Web Pages in the international conference Language, Literature and Linguistics, 2012 held in Singapore by the Global Science and Technology Forum. PublicationsTranslating the MMSE into Assamese: Suggestion for Culture and Language Appropriate Sentence Prompt published in Vaakmanthan, Vol 3, Issue II, ISSN 2426-2149Examining acoustic space of vowels as a corresponding value to language proficiency level: A case study of the heritage learner of Hindi, published in Ghanshyam Sharma (ed.) Advances in Hindi Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, LINCOM Europa (2018). ISBN 978-38-62889-02-0Stop and Fricatives in the Verbal Repertoire of Hindi, Korean Bilinguals: A Study of Phonological Development in Bilinguals, published in Misra, Gupta (ed.) Perspectives on Applied and General Linguistics, Vijaya Books, India (2016). ISBN 978-93-81480-99-1Ethical Violations in Research Involving Human Subjects in Popular American TV Series ‘Fringe’, published in Misra, Gupta (ed.) Perspectives on Applied and General Linguistics, Vijaya Books, India (2016). ISBN 978-93-81480-99-1Introducing Elvis to ESL Learners: Teaching Language through Music, included in Narang (ed.) Issues in Learning Theories and Pedagogical Practices, Orient Blackswan, India (2013) ISBN 9788125049913Grammaticalisation of the ‘take’ verb in Assamese, in Indian Journal of Linguistics, ISSN 0378-0759Acoustic space in Kashmiri vowels published in Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics, ISSN 09743421Language Through Music: Increased Recall Value of Vocabulary Through Rhyme and Rhythm, included in the conference proceedings of MEESO 2013 International Conference.From Butterflies to Typhoons: Why India needs a Slut-walk, published in Women’s Perspectives, Arindom Borkotoky (ed.), LB publications, Assam (2012). Micro-linguistic Areas of South Asia, published in the conference proceedings of 32nd All India Conference of Linguists, in Lucknow 2010. Extracurricular Activities:Appeared as a Resource Person/Expert in the live radio program Gyan Vani conducted by IGNOU on the topic of Multilingualism in India: Viewing English Language Teaching in the Indian Context.Designed an optional remedial English course titled English Appreciation for the students of class X, XI and XII of the Ramanujam Junior College, Nagaon, Assam. Have taught the same during summer vacations (for a period of 50 days) every year since 2008. Held the post of the Editor-in-Chief of the College magazine Aaroh in the Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi.Represented the School in the National Level Teri Science Olympiad, National level Social Science exhibition in English Elocution and secured the first rank in North East Region and 9th rank all over India respectively.Won the first prize for the Best Entry in Assam in the National Competition of Rank and Bolt Awards for Excellence in the Field of Education organized by Indian Airlines in 2004.Won several prizes in intra and inter college music, choreography, essay writing, dramatics and creative writing in University of Delhi as well as Jawaharlal Nehru University.Sports and Athletics:Served as Convenor, JNU Taekwondo Club.Awarded the Yellow belt in Taekwondo in March, 2013 and awaiting the Green belt certificate.Awarded the flying certificate for a Sky-diving Expedition completed under the ‘Genting Sky Venture Institute’ in MalaysiaCertificate course in Para Sailing under the Air Force Base of India in Tezpur, Assam.Reached the semi-finals of the All Assam Nurul Amin Tennis Tournament held in Nagaon Tennis Club in 2000, 2002 and 2003sReferences:Dr. Kavita RastogiProfessor, Department of LinguisticsUniversity of Lucknow, LucknowUttar Pradesh-226007Ph. No. +919454998566 krastogi1960@ Prof. Pradeep Kumar DasCenter for Linguistics,Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi-110067pradeep11@ Prof. Gabriela Nyk IlievaClinical Professor222 W 4th Street,Middle Eastern and Islamic StudiesNew York Universitygni1@nyu.edu ................
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