Smriti Singh

@iitp.ac.in

Professor in Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Patna

Smriti Singh


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RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory, Communication, Cultural Studies
30

Scopus Publications

360

Scholar Citations

10

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12

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Scopus Publications

  • Disseminating Alternative Discourses in Kerala Cultural and Political Implications of Pattabakki (1938)
    Economic and Political Weekly, 2026
  • GAMIFIED ASSESSMENT WITH QUIZIZZ: REDUCING TEST ANXIETY AND ENHANCING MOTIVATION IN INDONESIAN EFL CLASSROOMS THROUGH THE ARCS MODEL
    Adi Nugroho, Smriti singh
    Journal of Information Technology Education Research, 2026
    Aim/Purpose: This paper examines the effect of using Quizizz on students’ learning motivation and test anxiety in an EFL classroom in Indonesia, employing Keller’s ARCS model of motivation as the theoretical framework. Background: Engaging students in the learning process can be challenging, particularly in the current environment where many students rely heavily on digital devices outside the classroom. Therefore, the education sector faces a new challenge and needs to adapt to new demands, modifying programs to better meet the needs of learners. Recently, interest has increased in researching learning approaches that can motivate students to learn, such as gamification. Methodology: This study employed a quantitative approach, utilizing numerical values obtained from the survey to explain and clarify a particular phenomenon being observed – 62 EFL students who completed four learning sections incorporated with Quizizz as a gaming tool. After the final session, a questionnaire was distributed to all students to gauge their perspective on using Quizizz in the classroom. The data were analyzed using SEM-PLS with SmartPLS4 software. Contribution: This study contributes to several aspects in the educational field, such as the theory testing of the ARCS model by Keller in EFL, the effect of gamified assessment by Quizizz on students’ motivation and test anxiety, providing an insight into gamified assessment usage for language learning, as well as recommendations for stakeholders to integrate gamification with their teaching and learning activities. Findings: Two research questions and eight hypotheses were proposed to guide the direction of this study. The analysis showed that five out of eight hypotheses are supported. Confidence, relevance, and satisfaction were found to have a positive effect on students’ motivation, while test anxiety was influenced by students’ attention and confidence levels. Several factors may explain these findings, including students’ digital literacy and specific features of Quizizz, as well as the application’s competitive elements. Recommendations for Practitioners: The findings suggest that teachers can effectively incorporate Quizizz as an assessment tool in their classrooms, as it enhances student motivation. While gamification can enhance motivation, it may not always reduce anxiety, particularly if competitive elements heighten stress. Therefore, educators need to design gamification strategies carefully to maximize motivation while minimizing test anxiety. Recommendation for Researchers: Researchers in this area can focus on the qualitative approach to understanding external factors that may exist and affect their motivation and test anxiety. Instruments such as interviews can gain an in-depth understanding of students’ perceptions that numerical data alone cannot explain. Impact on Society: The study’s outcomes suggest that through gamification, students can benefit from enhanced engagement and motivation, leading to improved academic performance. This study offers empirical, model-based evidence that can help policymakers, curriculum designers, and institutional leaders understand how to implement gamified digital tools, such as Quizizz, to enhance learning experiences. Future Research: Future research should explore additional factors, such as self-regulation skills and coping mechanisms, and investigate familiarity to understand better how gamification interacts with students’ emotional experiences in learning settings.
  • Crisis ordinariness in late liberalism: an exploration of Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police (2019)
    Bipasha Mandal, Smriti Singh
    Journal for Cultural Research, 2026
    Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police (2019) depicts complicit endurance, where subjects adapt to systemic violence as a mundane routine. Ogawa’s characters participate in their own deprivation, burning roses and discarding calendars without protest. Analysing the novel through Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics and Lauren Berlant’s ‘cruel optimism’, this article argues that the regime enforces disappearance not through spectacle but attrition, eroding the very possibility of opposition. The protagonist’s resigned survival exemplifies late liberalism’s pernicious innovation of a subjectivity that persists through its own undoing, revealing how power operates through gradual, bureaucratic erasure rather than overt coercion.
  • Mythological subversion and social stratification in India: the paradox of ritual empowerment in G. Sankara Pillai’s Moodhevi Theyyam
    Manu Mohan, Smriti Singh
    Journal for Cultural Research, 2026
    Moodhevi Theyyam, a Malayalam natakam by G. Sankara Pillai, critically examines the complex dynamics of caste, gender and sexual violence. Moodhevi, traditionally an inauspicious figure in Hindu mythology and a derogatory term for women, is reimagined and transformed into an epithet of divine potency. This strategic reinterpretation allows Pillai to expose the paradoxical nature of ritual performances that provide temporary empowerment to lower-caste performers, only to be systematically returned to their socially prescribed positions once the ritual concludes. The natakam offers a critical lens into the mechanisms of social marginalisation, revealing how ritualistic practices create a temporary illusion of social mobility. This cyclical dynamic serves as a powerful metaphor for the persistent structural inequalities embedded within social systems. Despite the inherent contextual constraints of the natakam, this research provides a critical analytical framework that interrogates the complex dialectic between ritualistic performance and social stratification. The study attempts to explore the intricate mechanisms by which theatrical practices simultaneously destabilise and reify existing social hierarchies, offering a nuanced epistemological intervention into contemporary theatre discourse in India and Indigenous performance studies.
  • Grotesque Bodies and Disability: Examining Children’s Experiences in Zainab Sulaiman’s Simply Nanju
    Sujata Patel, Smriti Singh
    Children S Literature in Education, 2025
  • “Big (Br)other is watching you”: exploring the notion of ‘surveillance capitalism’ in Appupen and Laurent Daudet’s graphic novel Dream Machine (2024)
    Bipasha Mandal, Smriti Singh
    Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2025
  • Literary Representation of Animal Captivity Reading Hannah's Dream through Foucauldian Lens
    Moumita Bala, Smriti Singh
    Zoophilologica, 2025
    Zoos are spaces for human–animal engagement; they are believed to provide people with limited exposure to the wilderness, a glimpse of the innate splendour of the animal kingdom. However, questions arise regarding the degree to which animals are actually visible in these environments. This prompts us to reflect on a crucial query: can a confined urban animal, separated from its natural environment, truly provide an understanding of a species’ natural state while preserving their subjectivity? Randy Malamud, Bob Mullan, and Garry Marvin provide critical evaluations of how captive animals are portrayed in zoos and also examine the presence of zoo culture in urban societies. Observing animals passively in a zoo reduces them to mere exhibits for entertainment purposes, rather than allowing us to truly appreciate them for what they are. This paper uses Foucault’s concept of biopower to interpret Diane Hammond’s novel Hannah’s Dream as a zoo narrative, wherein Hannah is positioned as a recipient of biopower that shapes her sense of self in dual roles: that of a companion animal and a zoo animal. The central inquiry revolves around exploring how Hannah’s identity is constructed by the anthropocentric discourse of dominance and control over animals.
  • The nation in narration: representation of the cultural revolution in The Three-Body Problem
    Bipasha Mandal, Smriti Singh
    Textual Practice, 2025
    Cixin Liu’s seminal work of Science Fiction, The Three-Body Problem (2014), has captivated both general readers and academic critics alike since its debut. Serialised by Science Fiction World magazine in 2006 and later published as a book in 2008, the novel, part of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy, holds a significant position within the SF genre in China and globally. Despite its widespread readership, there remains a notable absence of rigorous academic inquiry into the novel. This article aims to address this gap by examining the intricate interplay between the nation and narration within The Three-Body Problem. To contextualise our analysis, we provide a brief overview of the history of SF in China, elucidating how the concept of nationhood permeates the novel. Focusing on the portrayal of the Cultural Revolution, we explore the political allegory and the nuanced relationship between nation and narration as depicted by Cixin Liu. Through this exploration, we seek to unravel how the novel navigates its narrative landscape in relation to the nation, offering fresh insights into its thematic depth and socio-political commentary.
  • Heteronormativity and its Private and Public Balancing in Sri Lanka
    Subham Ghosh, Smriti Singh
    South Asia Research, 2024
    Within the public sphere of South Asian countries, prominent movements to formally recognise gender diversity and decriminalise same-sex relations have had effects in Nepal and India, but same-sex relations remain a criminal offence in Sri Lanka and other South Asian countries. Against this background, the article analyses an early novel by the Sri Lankan Canadian writer Shyam Selvadurai, showing how prohibition and tolerance go rather uneasily hand in hand within the public and private spheres of Sri Lanka, creating anxious precarities in the everyday lives of individuals, their families and supporters within a heteronormative framework. Since formal legal recognition per se can never fully guarantee the freedom to live one’s life as one desires, the article discusses, in light of Selvadurai’s work, to what extent private individual strategies of navigation and self-management remain crucial for non-heteronormative individuals.
  • Caste Oppression and Shifting Power Dynamics in Bramayugam
    Economic and Political Weekly, 2024
  • Costumes of the migrating body: A study of indentured labors’ clothes and jewelry
    Nidhi Jha, Smriti Singh
    Journal of Material Culture, 2024
  • When elephants fight back: Animal standpoint reading of Nirmal Ghosh’s Novella River Storm
    Moumita Bala, Smriti Singh
    Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, 2024
  • Politics of Displacement and Shipboard Fatality: Analysing the Mental Health of Indentured Labourers
    Nidhi Jha, Smriti Singh
    Girmitiya Culture and Memory Navigating Identity Tradition and Resilience Across Continents, 2024
  • “Writing Orality”: Preserving Oral Tradition and Cultural Identity in the Select Writings of Easterine Kire
    Sanatan Mandal, Smriti Singh
    Interventions, 2024
  • Inclusive or exclusionary? A study of representation of disability in Indian primary school textbooks
    Sujata Patel, Smriti Singh
    Education 3 13, 2024
  • Translanguaging: Centralizing the Learner in Multilingual Classroom Transactions
    , Samrat Bisai, Smriti Singh, and
    Mextesol Journal, 2024
  • Towards a cosmopolitan worldview: investigating the process of de-bordering through Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s In Dependence
    Subham Ghosh, Smriti Singh
    African Identities, 2024
  • Within or Outside the Boundaries: Exploring the Intricacies of Human-Elephant Relationship in Tania James’s Novel The Tusk That Did the Damage
    Moumita Bala, Smriti Singh
    Geohumanities, 2024
  • (Dis)embodied Labour?: Assessing the Body under Capitalism in William Gibson’s Neuromancer
    Bipasha Mandal, Smriti Singh
    American British and Canadian Studies, 2023
  • (De)Constructing Man-Animal Binary in Santal Folktales
    Iup Journal of English Studies, 2023
  • Highlighting elephant’s perspective through umwelt exploration: textual analysis of the novella River Storm
    Moumita Bala, Smriti Singh
    Senses and Society, 2023
  • Language visibility in multilingual schools: An empirical study of schoolscapes from India
    Samrat Bisai, Smriti Singh
    Linguistics and Education, 2022
  • Asserting Naga cultural identity and challenging colonialism in Easterine Kire’s Sky is My Father: A Naga Village Remembered
    Sanatan Mandal, Smriti Singh
    Alternative, 2022
  • Duality of Abuse and Care Empathy in Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants
    Moumita Bala, Smriti Singh
    Relations Beyond Anthropocentrism, 2022
  • From India to Marich Des: Religion and Identity in Kala Pani Narratives
    Iup Journal of English Studies, 2022
  • Investigating the development of speaking skill through language games in technologically underequipped efl classroom
    Mextesol Journal, 2021
  • Revisiting the metanarrative of 'Two-nation' theory: A postmodern study of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
    Subham Ghosh, Smriti Singh
    Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2021
  • Stor(Y)ing the reality: (con)textualization of myth in easterine kire’s son of the thundercloud
    Iup Journal of English Studies, 2020
  • Towards a holistic and inclusive pedagogy for students from diverse linguistic backgrounds
    Samrat Bisai, Smriti Singh
    Teflin Journal, 2020
  • Aspects of science education in India: A synoptic review and possible directions for the future
    Ramjit Kumar, Smriti Singh
    Current Science, 2018

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Whose Culture Is Represented? Multiculturalism and Diversity in Indonesian Primary English Textbooks
    A Maulana, S Singh
    IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and … , 2026
    2026
  • The Reflection of Health Consciousness in Bhojpuri Idioms: A Study on Language and Tradition
    S Singh, C Sinha, Sweta and Kumar
    Langauge in India 26 (2), 68-80 , 2026
    2026
  • Gamified Assessment with Quizizz: Reducing Test Anxiety and Enhancing Motivation in Indonesian EFL Classrooms Through the ARCS Model
    A Nugroho, S Singh
    Journal of Information Technology Education: Research 25, 01 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • Mythological subversion and social stratification in India: the paradox of ritual empowerment in G. Sankara Pillai’s Moodhevi Theyyam
    M Mohan, S Singh
    Journal for Cultural Research 30 (1), 16-31 , 2026
    2026
  • Crisis ordinariness in late liberalism: an exploration of Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police (2019)
    B Mandal, S Singh
    Journal for Cultural Research 30 (1), 64-78 , 2026
    2026
  • Disseminating Alternative Discourses in Kerala Cultural and Political Implications of Pattabakki (1938)
    M Mohan, S Singh
    Economic and Political Weekly 61 (8), 46-52 , 2026
    2026
  • Grotesque Bodies and Disability: Examining Children’s Experiences in Zainab Sulaiman’s Simply Nanju
    S Patel, S Singh
    Children's Literature in Education, 1-17 , 2025
    2025
  • “Big (Br)other is watching you”: exploring the notion of ‘surveillance capitalism’ in Appupen and Laurent Daudet’s graphic novel Dream Machine (2024)
    B Mandal, S Singh
    Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 1-21 , 2025
    2025
  • Literary Representation of Animal Captivity: Reading Hannah’s Dream through Foucauldian Lens
    M Bala, S Singh
    Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies 15 (1), 1-24 , 2025
    2025
  • The nation in narration: representation of the cultural revolution in The Three-Body Problem
    B Mandal, S Singh
    Textual Practice, 1-24 , 2025
    2025
  • Breaking Bread, Shattering Chains: Food, Caste, and Resistance in Dalit Women's Narratives.
    L Biswas, S Singh
    Language in India 25 (3) , 2025
    2025
  • Becoming Human: Exploring ‘Nomadic Subjectivity’in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021)
    B Mandal, S Singh
    Journal of Posthumanism 5 (1), 13-23 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Literackie odzwierciedlenie niewoli zwierząt: Czytanie snu Hannah przez pryzmat Foucaulta
    M Bala, S Singh
    2025
  • “Writing Orality”: Preserving Oral Tradition and Cultural Identity in the Select Writings of Easterine Kire
    S Mandal, S Singh
    Interventions 26 (8), 1250-1266 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • Heteronormativity and its Private and Public Balancing in Sri Lanka
    S Ghosh, S Singh
    South Asia Research 44 (3), 400-419 , 2024
    2024
  • (wl-1556)-Caste Oppression and the Shifting Power Dynamics in Bramayugam (2024), a review
    B Mandal, S Singh
    Economic & Political Weekly 59 (42) , 2024
    2024
  • Inclusive or exclusionary? A study of representation of disability in Indian primary school textbooks
    S Patel, S Singh
    Education 3-13, 1-13 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Towards a cosmopolitan worldview: investigating the process of de-bordering through Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s In Dependence
    S Ghosh, S Singh
    African Identities 22 (4), 1073-1085 , 2024
    2024
  • Politics of Displacement and Shipboard Fatality: Analysing the Mental Health of Indentured Labourers
    N Jha, S Singh
    Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Navigating Identity, Tradition, and Resilience … , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Reframing Mental Health: The Role of Memoirs in Challenging Stigmas in India
    S Patel, S Singh
    Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow Volume 24: 9 September 2024 … , 2024
    2024

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Collaborative learning through language games in ESL classroom
    SK Saha, S Singh
    Language in India 16 (10), 180-189 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 37
  • Game-Based Language Learning: Activities for ESL Classes with Limited Access to Technology
    SGS Singh
    ELT Voices 6 (iv), 1-8 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 37
  • Game based Language Learning in ESL classroom - A theoretical Perspective
    SSS Singh
    ELT-Vibes 2 (iii) , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 31
  • Towards a Holistic and Inclusive Pedagogy for Students from Diverse Linguistic Backgrounds.
    S Bisai, S Singh
    TEFLIN Journal: A Publication on the Teaching & Learning of English 31 (1) , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 28
  • Language visibility in multilingual schools: An empirical study of schoolscapes from India
    S Bisai, S Singh
    Linguistics and Education 69, 101046 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 26
  • Bridging the divide: Collaborative learning and translanguaging in multilingual classrooms
    S Bisai, S Singh
    Fortell–A Journal of Teaching English Language and Literature 39 (2), 46-57 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 19
  • Rethinking assessment–A multilingual perspective
    S Bisai, S Singh
    Language in India 18 (4), 308-319 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 18
  • Investigating the Development of Speaking Skill through Language Games in Technologically Underequipped EFL Classroom.
    SK Saha, S Singh
    MEXTESOL Journal 45 (3), n3 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 13
  • Evaluating Gender Representation in NCERT Textbooks: A Content Analysis
    S Parashar, S Singh
    Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 11 (4), 323-329 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 10
  • Building Employability Skills in English as a Second Language (ESL) Classroom in India.
    S Singh
    English Teacher 48 (2) , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 10
  • Teaching Unplugged - Applications of Dogme ELT in India
    S Ghazal, S Singh
    International journal of English Language and Translation Studies 2 (1), 141-152 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 10
  • Language Laboratory: Purposes and Shortcomings
    S Singh
    Journal of Technology for ELT 3 (1) , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 10
  • Translanguaging: Centralizing the Learner in Multilingual Classroom Transactions.
    S Bisai, S Singh
    MEXTESOL Journal 48 (3), n3 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 9
  • English in India: a socio-psychological paradox
    S Singh, S Singh
    IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science 19 (7), 127-30 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 9
  • Aspects of science education in India: a synoptic review and possible directions for the future
    R Kumar, S Singh
    Current Science, 1825-1828 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 8
  • Self-Assessment of Oral Proficiency among ESL Learners
    S Singh
    'ELT Voices - India’ International Journal for Teachers of English 5 (1), 1-7 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 8
  • Magahi and Magadh: Language and people
    L Atreya, S Singh, R Kumar
    Global Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 3 (2), 52-59 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 8
  • Asserting Naga cultural identity and challenging colonialism in Easterine Kire’s Sky is My Father: A Naga Village Remembered
    S Mandal, S Singh
    AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 18 (1), 203-209 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 7
  • The state of Science Education in post-independent India: a synoptic review and future direction
    R Kumar, S Singh
    IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science 22 (3), 55-58 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 7
  • “Writing Orality”: Preserving Oral Tradition and Cultural Identity in the Select Writings of Easterine Kire
    S Mandal, S Singh
    Interventions 26 (8), 1250-1266 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6