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This blog is about the views by David Crystal. He is giving opinion about the English language , Technology and also about the ELT.
Introduction
Crystal studied English at University College London between 1959 and 1962, and was a researcher under Randolph Quirk between 1962 and 1963, working on the Survey of English Usage. Since then he has lectured at Bangor University and the University of Reading and is an honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor. Retired from full-time academia, he works as a writer, editor and consultant, and contributes to television and radio broadcasts. His association with the BBC ranges from, formerly, a BBC Radio 4 series on language issues to, more recently, podcasts on the BBC World Service website for people learning English.
Crystal was awarded the OBE in 1995 and became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000. He is also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. His many academic interests include English language learning and teaching, clinical linguistics, forensic linguistics, language death, "ludic linguistics" (Crystal's neologism for the study of language play), style, English genre, Shakespeare, indexing, and lexicography. He is the Patron of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), honorary president of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), and Patron of the UK National Literacy Association. He is a consultant for Babel - The Language Magazine, for which he has also written articles.
This video is about the the effect of new technology on English language.
Here David Crystal takes about the English language and keep coming change in language. Technology always has influenced language quite dramatically.
As we know that there are so many invention like printing press newspaper television radio and computer and so on but printing arise in 15th century it is a part of past Technology.
Varieties of any e long of course but we are talking about English today.David Crystal talking about that when the development invention of television has been coming in world people don't know what to say but after that they are asking hello hi and then start the conversation on telephone.
Invention of telephone was disaster for people. In 1920 paper for that it is a medium of brainwash and They thought that is new invention of telephone is a disaster.
He says that after those invention internet is invention of new generation.
Now we can see that during the use of social media while texting people used short form of some words so that way English language changed.
Ex -: LOL, U(you), R (are)
Here in this video he talked about the biggest challenge for teacher.
He said that language is changing now and then. So it is big challenge for teacher to teach student. So they face difficulty with language. There is two reasons according to him that
1) Internet
It is become faster with speed and also new generation is accept it very fast. So there are so many change with speed.
2) English is Global language.
English is global language that we know very well. Because of technology and change coming into language there are different English language;
India English
Nigerian English
South African English
He said that no one in Europe also speak the queen language. Probably 2% people speak that English. While teacher that's why facing problems to teach any language. There are different English language and traditional acent so, student knew about their present language. He gave two remedy for teacher that
1) Improve listing comprehension
2) Improve reading comprehension
Student think more about exam and passinng thigs. He also said that according to him there is two most important job in the world are
1] Translation /Interpretation
2] Teaching
He said that I thank God that He is not teacher.
In this video David is talking about the Texting is good for English Language
There are judges and they all are asking him questions. David put his argument or can say answer for his survey or reserch.
He said, children are are playing out site. So they made many mistake in spelling.sobhe said that texting is good for language.
He said that now after so many years none speak Victoria's English but now language is changing in many way. He talks about and gave reason of social behaviour in learning.
Conclusion
As above all videos are very interesting. It is all about the language and linguistic. David Crystal gave Mani views on Effect of English language and effect on English language in current time. He argued well to prove his point, In all videos.
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