Assignment Writing
Topic :
English language Teaching - 1
Name : Ravina Parmar
Batch year : (2019-2021)
Roll no. 17
Enrollment no : 2069108420200031
Submitted to : Smt. S. B. Gardi English Department Bhavnagar
✍️ Abstract. :-
In the last three decades, major changes have taken place in the English language teaching methods, especially in second and foreign language learning scenario. This paper aims at analyzing the importance of usage of newspaper and magazines in the classroom and finding the ways on how to use print media. And also it also effect full foe online learning because that is very helpful to engage Learners I'm virtual platforms. It is difficult for the teachers to manage this multidimensional environment. It is essential for them to make the students able to use the news paper and at the same time deal with other activities such as researching for information from books and magazines. The following issues are open for discussion: the importance of media in general and education in particular; media are persuasive and pervasive, example newspapers and magazines. The possibilities of interactive or 'student-centered' approaches to teach writing skills in English through newspaper and I review basic procedures common in English Language Teaching to design tasks for literary study will be discussed. Such tasks I suggest, newspapers can definitely supplement the traditional lectures.
✍️ Keywords:
Teaching English, use of print media, newspapers, language acquisition ,online classroom, learning through T.V.
✍️Introduction :--
✍️ Research Objective :--
-Here in this presentation I am sharing my ideas about how newspapers can help us to learn the English language.
-What is the learning process? ( Online or face to face )
-How we can use newspapers as an online learning process.
-What should be the outcome of this method?
✍️ Task Based Language Learning :-
What is Task Based Language Learning ?
“ An activity required Learners to arrive at an outcome from given information through some process of thought and which allowed Teachers to control and regular that process was regarded as a task.” ( Prabhu)
How to conduct a task-based classroom is an issue of theoretical and practical interest in the field of second language acquisition. In A Framework for Task-Based Learning, Willis draws thoughtful insights from current research regarding communicative language teaching and develops a practical guide for second/foreign language teachers on how to conduct task-based learning (TBL).
✍️ How Newspapers help us to learn language:--
In newspapers we come to know new words for new situations.
Newspapers make us aware about the current situation and crisis of the world. We come to know various idioms, words.
Newspapers through we can develop our speaking skill and writing skills.
To engage Learners for learning language effectively. ( By giving them tasks).
✍️ Which type of task you can give from Newspapers :-
Newspapers can be designed in such a way to develop reading comprehension, grammatical skills & Vocabulary skills, writing skills and critical analysis. Newspapers can be organized base
on the skills that is needed to impart in the classroom. The length of the article, the time allotted ,and student’s capability to understand the density of the material should be considered before choosing the text. Most of the people generally read regional newspapers as they are easy to understand and the comprehension papers like Deccan Chronicle, The Hindu and various English Magazines and papers etc., provides literary and non- literary material. Through internet various
newspapers can be browsed. Certain things that we have to keep in mind are:
o If the article is lengthy it may take more time through which the pupil may lose interest.
o If the students like the topic they get motivated and it would be easy to teach them.
o The task should be devised in a systematic way to make it even more interesting.
o Weather forecast, advertisements, headlines can be glanced quickly and students will not be self conscious.
o Some time photographs and illustrations published in newspapers can also be useful to conduct activities among the students especially, group discussions, describing object and
situations with the help of that particular image.
First provide them newspapers and assign them a tasks or activities :
To write down new words you find from newspaper.
To find out several idioms and phrases used in newspaper.
Which tense used in headlines of the newspaper.
Collect all responses and discuss with all the students.
Read the following paragraph and identify 3 new vocabulary words and write its
meaning.
Identify antonyms and synonyms of any 3 words from the following paragraph.
✍️ How we can work online with the help of newspaper activities :--
🛑 Because of the Corona pandemic we have to focus on better quality of online teaching. How to engage students that is the most important question. So let's see how newspapers help us to engage Learners in the quality of learning…
✍️ Raquel Ribeiro has mentioned in her blog that three ways to use news I English language lessons :
Give instructions and guidance via comments or video calling platform.
Students can interact via comments according to the teacher’s guidance and information.
Provide a newspaper article.
So this is how learning happens on online platforms.
✍️ Conclusion :--
This is helpful to engage students in an online classroom. ( Both the way Synchronous and Asynchronous). By these activities Students get motivated and they feel confident to deal with day to day life. As the newspapers connect their lives with their surroundings, this is the more practical method and the change can prove more effective, especially in developing the vocabulary, synonyms, antonyms, guessing the meaning based on the contexts for effective language speaking and writing.
✍ ️Work Cited :--
Prabhu, N.S. (1987). Second Language Pedagogy. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Ribeiro, Raquel. Supporting Every Teacher: 3 Ways to Use Global News in Your Online English Lessons. 15 Apr. 2020, www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2020/04/15/supporting-every-teacher-3-ways-to-use-global-news-in-your-online-english-lessons/?utm_source=wobl.
Sanderson, P. (1999). “Using the Newspapers in the Classroom”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Willis, J. (1999). “A Framework for Task-Based Learning”. Edinburgh Gate, England: Longman.
Very well drafted assignment dear, with minute and acute details.
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