Brief Profile
• Awarded Gold Medal For securing First Rank in M.A.Linguistics, Annamalai University.
• Serving as Mentor Professor, Bharathiyar University (From 2021 for three years)
• Under Visiting professorship , Tamil university (2020-21) submitted a Research Report on the Conceptualization of Grammar by Tolkappiyar.
• Served as Reader cum Research Officer in the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from 2007 -2019 (Group A Officer in the Central Civil Service Cadre, Govt. of India). Co-ordinated many academic programs in the areas of Language Technology, Language Documentation, Education Technology in collaboration with most of the universities and technological Institutions in India.
•Served as a Director in-charge in Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture (PILC) for four years and initiated many innovative programs.
-.Published seven books in English through International publishers like Springer, and four books in Tamil.
• As the Head of Educational Technology, brought out more than 200 visual episodes on Tamil language, literature, history, culture etc.
-• Sixteen Ph.Ds were awarded through my guidance
• Served as a visiting fellow in the University of Michigan from 2009-2010.
• Co-ordiantor and Resource person for Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius for developing ‘Language Resource Centre’ for Indian Languages through MHRD, Govt. of India.
• Co-ordinator for ‘Trilingual Srilanka’ program for training teachers and administrators in Tamil and English.
• Resource person for developing corpus and using technology for Singapore and Malaysians Tamil teachers.
Contribution at the National Level:
• As the Co-ordinator of the scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages, I have co-ordinated with many Universities and Institutes to train scholars in Documenting Endangered Languages.
• Brought out a handbook for cultural documentation which is used by all universities.
• Co-ordinated with CDAC, IITs’ and Universities in evolving strategies for language technology in Indian languages through Linguistic Data consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL) project of MHRD, Govt. of India.
• My book on Tamil literary criticism (Tamil) was selected by the Govt. of the Tamilnadu as the best book of the year 2005 and won the first prize.
• The Book on Language and Power (Tamil) was selected as the best book of the year 2005 by Tamilnadu progressive writers association.
• The Institute for Tamil educational research and development, Chennai has conferred the title “Moliyiyal Semmal” for my contribution to the development of computational Tamil at national level.
• The Bhasha Institute, NGO, Wardha, Maharashtra has given a certificate of appreciation for academic contribution to the Peoples’ Linguistic Survey of India.
Recent and Major Publications
- Ramamoorthy,"Tolkappiyarin vili marapu",Arimaa nookku,15:2
- Ramamoorthy,"Linguistic poverty",International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics,49:2
- Ramamoorthy,"Strategies of Teaching in the Diasporic context",Languages in India,26
- Ramamoorthy,"Samooga Oodagangalil Tamil",Panuval,8:1
- Ramamoorthy,"Ilakkiya Aayvugalil Kanini",Peyal,3:1
- Ramamoorthy et.al,"Effects of self regulated
strategy development(SRSD) instruction on ESL students essay writing and their cohesion and coherence",International Journal of Multidiscipiinary Educational Research,5.16
- Ramamoorthy et.al,"ESL students writing self -efficacy boosted by integrating different self regulated strategies :",International Journal of Research,2.8
- Ramamoorthy et.al,"Controversial issues on written corrective feedback",Zenith International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research,4.7
- Ramamoorthy et.al,"Corrective Feedback and writing improvement:The effect
of direct and indirect written corrective feedback on EFL learners mastery of articles",Zenith International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research,4.9
- Ramamoorthy,"Social construction Doctor Patient Relation : A study of
Tamil Jokes",Languages in India,12:6
- Editors,"The Impact of Tamil on the word structure of Pondicherry
Telugu",Word structure in Dravidian,325
- Ramamoorthy,"Power differentialsin Tamil",Languages in India,8.5
- nil,"European impact and paradigm shift in Tamil development",Literature, Caste and Society,245
- Ramamoorthy,"Solveleyattu Oru Kavipanbu Aaguma",valluvam,20
- Ramamoorthy,"Endangerment of Tribal
Languages in Indian Context",International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics,38:2
- Ramamoorthy,"Ideology behind Tamil Purism",International Journal of Dravidic Studies,7:1
Research Projects Undertaken
Documentation of endangered Language
MHRD
Online materials for Urdhu
NCPUL
Bhasamandakini
MHRD
Bhasamandakini-visual episodes
Language Loyalty amoung Telugu speakers in Pondicherry
PILC
Bilingualism in Thanjavur
Tamil University
Books / Chapters
Book - Co-Author, (2018). The Languages of Puducherry, Orient Blackswan
Pvt. Ltd, 97881250624 86Book - Co-Author, (2018). Utility and Application of
Corpus, Springer, 978-981-13- 1800-9Book - Co-Author, (2012). English-English Tamil Dictionary, Dorling Kindersley
(India) Pvt. Ltd.,, 97881317313 07Book - Co-Author, (2011). Parsing in Indian Languages, www.languageinindia
.com, 19302940Book - Sole Author, (2010). Purism in Tamil, Lap Lambert
Academic
Publishing GmbH
& Co., 9783838376745Book - Sole Author, (2010). Linguistic Purism and Language Planning in a
Multilingual Context Tamil in Pondicherry, Languagesiindia, 1930-2940Book - Sole Author, (2009). Linguistics Purism and
Language Planning in a
Multilingual Context, www.languagesinindia.com, 1930-2940Book - Sole Author, (2004). Pavendarin moli Karuttiyalkal, Tamil University, 8170903572Book - Sole Author, (2000). Language Loyalty and Language Displacement, PILC, 8185452105Book - Sole Author, (2000). Modernization of Tamil, Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture, 8185452113
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Teaching & Research Guidance
- Language planning, Literary criticism, Second Language teaching:Research Guidance
- Linguistics, Language modernization, Language Technology, Language Documentation:Short term/Continuing Education/Specialist Courses conducted