ELT : Mass ,Media, communication and it's importance

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● Which is your favorite Mass media platform for communication? Why do you like it? What are its drawback?

My favourite mass media platform for communication is  whatsapp. It has all the important features. It can be easily accessible.  It helps in developing  Four important skills LSRW. Through the medium of whatsapp you can send audio files, videos , messages and documents files. It has a feature of video calling. So through this people can connect visually  with each other. Nowadays whatsapp become medium of marketing. Through the whatsapp people can selling their products.So it becomes a marketing and advertising  platform. Nowadays time consider as  precious thing . People can share important messages to group  of people in short period of time. 

  Though it's like a coin which has two sides positive as well as negative. At some level it faces drawback because of unreliable messages which creates  problems in society. Many people  use this platform for  speareding fake information. People are blindly forwarding the fake messages without cross checking. It questions upon the  authenticity of information. People moreover use this platform for entertainment rather than speareding authentic information.

  This advertisement shows negative and positive side of whatsapp. It works like connecter which connects people with each others as the same time it also  separate people by spreading fake information. 

Interaction with France Professors : Brief talk on Higher education system

 Today we had a surprise visit by Prof. Saeed Paivandi and Prof. Fantanini Christine from University of Lorraine , France.  They visited to Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.  They had small visit to our  department of English for brief talk on higher education system. Prof. Kishor Joshi from department of Economics has introduced the guest.


   They have talked about the France culture , emerging of various streams and smaller  educational universities to set a particular university as world class  university, effect of  economical crises  and class conflict upon education system, gender differences in various education streams. It was very fruitful and interesting  session. They were very curious to interact with students. Some students asked few questions to them related to their culture and effect of feminine study over their culture.


 Prof. Saeed don't have the citizenship of France. He came to France to learn french  language. He lived their as foreigner.He closely look over the culture of France. He talked about the violences in some French movements and according to him violence can never give a proper solution to any problems.


    Prof. Christine 's thoughts were contrasting from Prof. Saeed. According to her  violence is very normal in these movements. She talked about economical crises among the various classes. Elite people became more rich, poor became more poorer and in between them middle class faces more economical crises. This things also affects on education system.
In 1980 there were 6% working class and 35 % elite people  were studying. In 2015 it increased with population 35 % working class and 90% elite class people were studying in universities.




   They have also talked about Feminist in education system. In the education system of France  there are 55% women studying  in various streams of education system. So there is equal ratio of male and female in education system. Through this conversation over feminism in education we came to know about the ratio of women in various fields like humanity 80% , engineering 60% ,  medicine 75%, surgery 17%, law 15% etc. This ratio is quite similar to India. In India more women are in stream of humanities rather than other streams like engineering, law , surgery etc. In medicine more women can be seen as nurse but few as surgeon. All these high designations have been  occupied by males. Men are  gaining high salary compare to women.

 So through this conversation we came to know that situations are parallel on the global level. The situations and interests of french women in various education streams are quite similar as India.




 This type of interactions provide  us authenticity about particular culture. It was very knowledgeable and intresting session. Both the professors freely talked about France culture and education system.
 I would like to thank Prof. Kishor Joshi of economics department and Prof. Dilip Barad for organising this surprise visit.

Thinking activity : Technology and Education

Thinking activity : Technology and Education 

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 Technology becomes the  integral part of human life in 21st century. It is everywhere entwined in almost every part of our culture. Technology in education system provides new great opportunity for learning. It is very important and powerful tool for education. Technology in eduction provides the new way for learning things.

1) why is it necessary to use technology in education. 

Technology in education is always a debatable topic in the society. By using  Technology into the education improves learning ability of learners. It provides new opportunities to learn and achieve things. In this students or learners are at the centre of learning. Education is transformed by technology. Students can get data and information with high speed and accuracy. It  is considered as student centered learning. Technology and education are a great combination if it used together in proper way. It also provide high information to learners. Learning becomes easy and interesting by using technology in education. Learner can learn things anytime at anywhere. It provides world view for learning the things. It prepared learners for the future. Learning becomes easy for anyone by using technology. 

2) what is the difference between 'using' and 'integrating ' technology ? 

Answer : There is a differce between using and integrating technology. In using technology students use technology as sake of using it. In this the technology used as for entertainment or get basic knowledge of things. In the integrating technology emphasis on the deeper knowledge of things. In this students / learners are at the center. It used for connecting the outer world with eduction through the medium of technology.

3) How can we integrated technology?  

 Integration technology happens when  learners engage themselves with technology. In the integration of technology the learner are at  the centre. Learner can integrate technology by looking it as a source of knowledge. There are many things which can help learner to integrate technology by using Web tools, Blogs , Flipped learning ,  class room , kahoot , E- Groups , coursera, online educational videos can helped learners to learn progressively. By using this types of technological platforms effects on learners. 

4) Can technology replace teacher ? 

Technology never replace the teacher. It can be used as tool for  betterment in education system. It can be used for enhancing the learning process of learners. Technology can provide the number of information. Teacher has ability to connect that information in meaningful manners. It never taught learners in simpler way. If learner find any doubt in that so at that time technology not able to make it clear. After all its a machine which have programmed information. It never able to connect the things out of the box like teacher. Technology can provide information but when and how leaner should used that information in proper way it only taught by teachers.

5)   Write in brief on David Crystal's views on 'effect of new technologies on English language', 'biggest challenge for English language teachers in the times of internet', and 'texting is good for English language'. 

● New technology developing new styles of English : 

David Crystal talks about the materialistic  development into society. He talked about printing press effecting the language. It plays vital role in development of language. He also talked about telephone that how it consider as disaster but along with time it becomes important  part of people's lives.  There was a prophet of doom of printing press as well as in text message by consider it  as disaster thing at those time but now they are example of human development. He support the argument that effect of Internet played vital role in shifting the style of language through text messages , blogging and twitter, Facebook. This tools can helped a lot to leaning the language. The language using in the new technology is not full of abbreviations. He consider it as standard English. 

● The Biggest challenge for English  language teachers in the times of Internet : 

Internet is biggest challenge for English language teachers because through the Internet new word easily become familiar to the people in shortest period of time. David says that teacher should be up to date in this digital world. Also he talked about variety of English language like British English, American English, Indian English , African English etc. So these all languages differs from each other on the bases of variety of accents and dialects that make this language more complicated. Teacher should be ready to encounter anything by focus on the global difference of English language through the medium of Internet. 

● Texting is good for English language : 

In this David told about the importance of text that effects on the learning the language. In this he more emphasis on  practicing language by doing more text messages. The abbreviations of text never effect on social moral values. Because the students never write this in their exams. So it is just for enhancing their vocabulary by using text message.

6) Name one web-tool which can help in development of all four L-S-R-W skills. If possible explain how it works.

 Blogger and coursera can help in development of four skills. The blogger consider as digital diary. So by typing on blog it develops your writing skills. As it is in digital form you can read it at anytime and anywhere. Also by putting videos it develpes your listing skills . By making the video you can develop your speaking skill also.  Thus , blogger helps in development of all four skills. 

      Like this coursera also helps  in development of four skills by listening videos along with  reading  subtitle ,  giving online test and by listening the video you can practice your speaking skills.