مولوی بشیر الدین احمد مرحوم
افسوس ہے کہ اردو کے ایک کہنہ مشق مصنف کی جسمانی یادگار مولوی بشیرالدین احمد خلف مولانا ڈپٹی نذیر احمد صاحب مرحوم نے بھی اپنی جگہ خالی کی، ۲۴؍ اگست کی شب کو بعارضۂ فالج دہلی میں وفات پائی، تاریخ بیجاپور، فرامین شاہی، عصائے پیری اور کئی تاریخی اور ادبی کتابوں کے وہ مصنف تھے اور اس عہد میں بسا غنیمت تھے۔
(سید سلیمان ندوی، ستمبر ۱۹۲۷ء)
Religious extremism has become one of the main problems of the world today and many non-Muslims believe that religious extremism is synonymous to Islam. This article discussed the topic of religious extremism and presents the solution to the problem. The Quran used the word ‘Ghuluw’ which can fairly be translated as extremism. The term is defined as ‘elevating someone or something to a level higher than its true reality’. If we look carefully into Islamic teachings we will see that Islam does not approved extremism, especially with regard to religion. Islam not only disapproved extremism, but also urges us to be moderate and disassociate ourselves from extremism.
The aim of the study was to investigate the influence of teacher pedagogy in improving tertiary level students’ English writing skill and self-perceptions. The purpose was to determine how far an eclectic approach to teaching English writing skill can be of assistance in developing the writing skill and confidence of bilingual speakers of English at tertiary level. This study employed pre/post-test and quasi experimental research design. The sample consisted of 66 students of English at Bachelor’s level and two teachers in a government college of Lahore, Punjab. The students were placed into two groups. The experimental group was taught by a TESL trained teacher and the control group was taught by a regular teacher. Both groups wrote an essay and completed questionnaires at the beginning and end of the study. After nine months of teaching writing skill, the pretest and posttest essay and questionnaire scores of the groups were compared using independent and paired sample T-tests and Hedges’ g to calculate the effect size of the change. Both teachers’ classroom lessons were analyzed through observation. Evidentially, eclectic approach had significant positive effect on students’ overall performance in essay writing and self-perception. Keywords: Eclectic Approach - Product Approach - Process Approach - English Writing Skill, Self-perception, Teaching English as Second Language (TESL)