3. ELT-2 David Crystal

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Today I'm presenting about how to use technology in education. In this video speaker talk about such wonderful things. No we can see this video and take information about this video. Here I am going to wrote about Education and Technology we know that the Covid - 19 has hanged the view of education around the world. We can see that the role of technology in education is continuously expanding from projecters to smart boards and enabling better interaction between teachers and students in the classroom.       

David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor, and works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster in language and linguistics, with particular reference to the English language. Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in 1941, he spent his early childhood in Holyhead, attended secondary school in Liverpool, and read English at University College London. After a research year at UCL's Survey of English Usage, he lectured at Bangor and then joined the new department of linguistics at Reading in 1965, where a decade later he became professor of linguistic science. He left the full-time university world in 1984 to work as an independent scholar. His writing takes in most areas of language study,his best-known authored books including The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language.

In this video David Crystal talks about how technology influenced English language dramatically. For this he compared very beautifully, Newspaper - Television - Radio & Internet ( Facebook, Twitter, Text messages) Further he talks about brief history of technology. Printing press arrived in the 15th century. After then we have new varieties of English language. Then Comparatively he talks about the technology today. Now in today's time if we talk about Newspaper then we find Cartoons, certain captions and many more things but in past there were not such things like this. 

In 19th century the telephone arrived but people didn't know how to dealt with this. Very interesting thing is that when they pick up the phone they shouted. But people thought that it brought great disasters in society. And of course it brought. After 1920s the development of broadcasting it introduced various languages. Radio and television became centre and provided the cricket and football commentary to the people.

Nowadays we  don't keep a space to change the language. There are two reasons behind the expense of the English. First reason is the Internet.  Because of the internet the language is very quickly changing, new words spread very quickly. Second reason is the globalization of English language. There is not one kind of language, but in the world various types of English language exist. 

Now the internet is doing the same thing. The World Wide Web arrives in 1991. Google came to exist in 1990. Before that it didn't exist. Blogging in 2003 and Email came to exist in 1999 and 2000. Facebook in 2004, YouTube in 2005 and Twitter in 2006. These all are the examples of new technologies or new style of English language. Technologies influence language in specific ways. For example Text messages and tweeting. Text messages provide 140 characters and Twitter provides 160 characters. Through the use of Twitter people came to know that Twitter introduce us to what is in the minds of people and what is going on around. After then it also provides such an interesting advertisement. This is how Twitter started providing us such an information and it influenced language. David Crystal says that I believe that the English language is the same as it was before 20 years ago. These all are information which David Crystal said in this video about how technology influenced language. 

The biggest challenge for English Teachers in the time of Internet.

In this video David Crystal gives the information about how language is changing so fast. For that he gives two major reasons, you invent one word it took a generation to become  popular but now in this time if you invent one word and put it on Facebook it takes only 24 hours or less. Language is moving faster and teachers have got to keep pace with this because their students are already ahead of them. 

If teachers want to teach South African language to their students then what they can do. David Crystal also talks about prompts in various applications. Various prompt like what are you doing , what is in your mind.   In this video David crystal says about Texting is 'Good' for English language. Texting is a kind of language, and it is never bad to improve language through texting. But peoples are holding varies myths regarding texting and consider it bad the reasons like Texting is done by kifs only. Text messages with abbreviation entirely abbreviate these messages. Kids don't know how to spell it etc. 

These all reasons are just reflecting the narrow mindedness of the people. These are not facts. It is not only kids, but mostly things are done by adults. More than half generation are using mobile and everyone is doing messaging. Literacy is important, and it needs more and more practice which technology provides. The more we text the better our literary skill improved. So here is the David crystal views about Education and Technology. 

Can they go South Africa? Or can they go South African Schools ? How ridiculous. But now it is possible to learn even whatever languages you want to learn because of Internet.  Just search on Google it will teach you language with audio or you can learn in perticular South African schools through Skype. There are two big difficulties : Translating and interpreting and second language teaching  because no human aspect is more complex than language.  

In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller Language and the Internet and presents the area as a new field: Internet linguistics.

In his engaging trademark style, Crystal addresses the online linguistic issues that affect us on a daily basis, incorporating real-life examples drawn from his own studies and personal involvement with Internet companies. He provides new linguistic analyses of Twitter, Internet security, and online advertising, explores the evolving multilingual character of the Internet, and offers illuminating observations about a wide range of online behavior, from spam to exclamation marks.