#99, Article: Using Music in the ESL Classroom
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#99, Research Paper: ‘New Strategies of Teaching Vocabulary through Newspaper Advertisements’ by Anisha Chug
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Ms. Anisha is M.Phil. (ELT), M.A., B.Ed. and has worked as a lecturer in S.D. Girls College, Hansi. Her interest in stylistics and Indian religious poetry has given recourse to undertake it as a topic for Ph.D. Consequently, she is pursuing research in Applied Linguistics at BPS Women University, Khanpur Kalan, Distt. Sonipat (Haryana) under the able supervision of Dr. Amrita Sharma.
Newspapers are valuable but often less utilized as a classroom resource. There is a breadth of coverage in them and they are linguistically topical and up-to-date. This is an interesting aid to teach English language.
Newspapers have become a part and parcel of modern life. They wield a tremendous power in moulding the public opinion. They have become a powerful means of bringing about reforms in the social structure and also causing an impact on government policy. Newspapers bring us news of all kinds. We can read a newspaper because we have a general competence of a language. But can this process be reversed i.e. can English be taught with the help of a newspaper? Yes, it is quite possible. We can use the language written by experts in the newspapers to teach and improve language.
Although pieces of news, articles, letters to the Editor and all other printed items can be used to teach English but since advertisements draw attention of the learners and readers, they can be an interesting means of teaching English. Use of the mass media as a teaching instrument in the classroom has increased considerably at all grade levels in the past few years. Newspapers have been used in the U.S.A. and U.K. classrooms for many years and have proven their worth as an educational tool for teaching English. So why not in India! Recently in India, English teachers also seem to be conscious for using them in teaching. Teaching through newspapers is effective because they motivate content learning and develop language skills.
Newspapers are used worldwide in education because they are a clean print resource that can be marked, cut, pasted, discarded, and then replaced the next day. It is also the only text that most of the students may continue reading throughout their lives because they are economical as compared to books and all inclusive. In fact, the newspapers are a flexible and adaptable learning resource that can be used effectively in almost all subjects and in any instructional situation. Newspapers are much more current than course books as they make an excellent springboard for lessons, and they feature different types of language (narratives, stories, problem-page letters, advertising, reports, weather forecasting, horoscopes, spiritual nuggets, book reviews, etc.). (more…)
#99, Research Paper: ‘The Face Behind The Mask: Selected Plays Of George Bernard Shaw’ by Md. Afrozuddin
ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#99 | September 26 | ISSN 0975-3036
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Md. Afrozuddin works as Assistant Professor of English at Sri Venkateswara Institute of Technology (SVIT), NH-44, Behind Anantha PVC Pipes, Hampapuram (V), Rapthadu (M), Anantapur – 515722.
The 19th century saw the introduction of legislation that began a process of state intervention into the living and working conditions of the men and women of Britain. Many people’s living conditions were shocking and degrading. As a young man, “Shaw worked for a firm of estate agents collecting tiny sums of rent from slum dwellers in Dublin. Shaw hated this job and that it was through this experience that … he saw how gentleman actually behaved and how they made their money out of working men and women … Landlords, it seemed to him, were little better than thieves.”[1]
Shaw intended his first play to expose the practices of slum landlords and the corruption within local government that continued to line the pockets of those willing to exploit and abuse. At the time of its first performance in 1892, it excited a great of controversy, a sense of uproar which delighted Shaw and the reaction of the middle class audiences was understandable since they recognized the attack Shaw was making on them. (more…)