Application of Multimedia Package for Teaching Linguistic

 

Kuldeep Kaur Juneja*, Prof. Ram Rajesh Mishra,Prof. Nagesh Shinde

School of Studies in Continuing Education, Vikram University, Ujjain (MP) 456010

 

ABSTRACT:

With the spread and development of English around the world, English is used as a second language in a country like India and for some people the 1st language. It enjoys a high prestige in the country. At present the role and status of English in India is higher ever as evidenced by its position as a key subject of medium of instruction, curriculum.

 

Different methods have been implemented to test the effectiveness of teaching process. One method involves multimedia in ELT in order to create English context. Technology is utilized for the upliftment of modern styles, it satisfies both visual and auditory senses of the students.

 

 

KEY WORDS:  Multimedia, Multimedia Packages, ICT, Teaching Linguistic

  

 

INTRODUCTION:

Language is one of the unique possessions of man, in fact, what distinguishes a man from an animal is the language. By using a language, a person can win the heart of others, with the same language; he can lose his dignity and degrade in the society.

 

Ben Johnson says : “Language must show a man, speak that I may see thee”  a teacher who has command over language can impress his students. The beauty of language used by a teacher can make him loveable. The speaker who has good command over language can attract a good number of audiences. There are number of methods that are used by the language teachers to teach English Language. Among them the use of ICT is also one.

 

In today’s schools ICT has become an indispensable part of teaching but the NCFTE- 2009 comments on the utilization of ICT in a superficial and cosmetic manner.

 

IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE:

No species other than humans has been endowed with the gift of language. Animals cannot acquire human language because of complex structure and their physical inadequacies. A language is an abstract set of psychological principles and sociological consideration that constitute a person competence as a speaker in given situation. These psychological principles provide him an ability to understand and create a system of rules in establishing co-relation between meanings and sound sequences. Language has creativity and productivity. The structural elements of human language can be combined to produce new utterances which neither the speaker nor his hearers may ever have made a heard before any listener, yet which both side understand without difficulty. Language changes according to the needs of the society.

 

DEFINITION AND TERMS USED IN THE STUDY:

1.    Multimedia – As the name implies, multimedia is the integration of multiple text, graphics, radio, video etc. for example, a presentation involving audio and video clips would be considered as a ‘Multimedia Presentation’.

2.    Multimedia Package – Multimedia package consists of more than one medium in combination with interactivity that is related to a story, event or information.

3.    ICT – ICT – Information and Communication Technology is the catch all phrase used to describe as range of technologies for gathering, storing, retrieving, processing, analyzing and transmitting information. Advances in ICT has progressively reduced the costs of managing information enabling individuals and organization to undertake information related tasks much more efficiently, and to introduce innovations in products, processes and organization structures.

 

EFFECTIVE TEACHING:

An effective teacher is one who concerns students learning outcomes. He or She is expected to demonstrate five key behaviours and five helping behaviour in teaching.

 

Five Key behaviours are –

1-   Lesson clarity

2-   Instructional variety

3-   Task Orientation

4-   Engagement in learning process

5-   Student success.

 

Five helping behaviours are –

1-   Using student ideas and contributions

2-   Structuring

3-   Questioning

4-   Probing and

5-   Teacher – Affect

 

Teachers are able to track their student strength and weaknesses through computer assisted learning. Computer program can enhance the lessons and allow teachers to pick different levels of program or different program altogether for students who may be behind or who are advanced.

 

WHAT IS LINGUISTIC ?

The advanced learner’s dictionary defines linguistics as a scientific study of language or of particular languages. The Collins Cobiuld English Language Dictionary defines linguistic as the study of the way in which language works. We can define linguistics as, “A systematic study of the way in which a language works”.

 

We add the letters – ed (or the letter – d) to the infinitive form of a regular verb to make it into the past tense form. But the same two letters –ed are pronounced (t) in the worked cooked and (d) in the word played. If we ask ourselves the question, “Why is the past tense marker <-ed> pronounced differently in different words?” We are asking ourselves a questions about the Linguistic of English.

 

COMPONENTS OF LINGUISTICS:

There are different components of linguistics, each one dealing with a particular aspect or a particular area of language. The five components of linguistics are :-

 

Component of Linguistics

Area of Language

1.Phonetics

Speech Sounds

2.Phonology

Sound system of language

3.Morphology

Word system of languages.

4.Syntax

Sentence – structure of languages

5.Semantics

Meaning

 

1.   Phonetics:

Phonetics deals with the production, transmission and reception of speech sounds. The English work spoon is made up of four speech sounds. These are (s), (p),(u:) and (n). The word spoon has five letters, but the two letters <oo> represent the single sound (u:) and so in the spoken form of this word there are only four sounds as indicated in the transcription of the word.

 

Phonetics deals with –

a.    The articulation and production of speech sounds.

b.    The way in which speech sounds are transmitted from the speaker to he hearer.

c.    the way in which the hearer receives the sounds and

d.    the classification of speech sounds into vowels and consonant.

 

2.   Phonology:

Phonology is a component of linguistic which deals with the way in which sounds function in a language. It deals with –

a.    The selection and organization of sounds

b.    Sound units and phonemes.

 

Selection of Sounds-

The sound that begins the English word father (the sound [f]) does not exist in several Indian Languages.

 

Organization of Sounds –

The sounds selected by a language forms the sound system of that language. Each language organizes the sounds selected by it in different ways.

 

For example, both English and Hindi have selected the sound [s] and [k] (the sounds that begin the English words son and canteen respectively).

 

Phonemes –

Take the English word scene [si:n]. It has three sounds [s], [i:] and [n]. The word soon has three sounds [s], u:] and [n]. The two words are different from each other in just one sound.

 

3.   Morphology –

Morphology deals with the words and their structure.

The English word re examination. This word is made up of the morphemes re (means once again), examine (which is a verb) and – ation which makes the verb examine into a noun. The way in which the words of a language are structured is called the morphology of that language.

 

4.   Syntax –

Syntax deals with the grammatical structure of sentences in a language. In English, the adjective that qualifies a noun must be before the noun, as in The good boy

 

English does not permit a verb to begin a statement. The following sentence is unacceptable in English.

Eats Ravi bread daily

The way in which words are arranged to form sentences is not the same in all languages.

 

5.   Semantics

Semantics deals with meaning. After looking at speech sounds, phonemes, syllabus, morphemes, sentences, etc. More important than all these is meaning. We use a language for communication and our communication must be meaningful. The component of linguistics that deals with meaning is called semantics. Example – Mohammed drank a cup of tea.

 

Language as a mean of communication –

A language is a code which is different from its linguistic performance but mere linguistic or communicative competence is not enough for communication, it has to be coupled with communication competence. This is the view of socio-linguistic who stress the use of language according to the occasion and context, the speaker and the listener, the profession and the social status of the speaker and the listener. Thus language is a result of social interaction. The communication channels are – speaking, listening, reading, and writing, visualizing and observing. The communication strategy and teaching strategies and tactics are selected for achieving objectives and generating structure Ashby’s own words – Any technology, which increases the rate of learning, would enable the teacher to teach less and the learner to learn more. Media teaching refers to the channels which are used for teaching and learning.

 

Educational Implications –

·      Provide students with opportunities to represent and express their prior knowledge.

·      Multimedia applications engage students and provide valuable learning opportunities.

·      Empower students to create and design rather than absorbing representatives created by others.

·      Encourages deep reflective thinking.

·      Create personally meaningful learning opportunities.

·      Allow students to function as designers, using tools for analyzing the world, accessing and interpreting information, organization of their personnel knowledge and representing what they know.

·      All of these contribute to student learning and help to explain the improved student learning that is often associated with CAI (Computer Assisted Instruction).

 

REFERENCES:

1.     T. Balasubramanian. (2013,2014). A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students (2nd ed). Hyderabad, Laxmi Publications Pvt. Ltd., ISBN: 978-93-80644-94-3

2.     The effectiveness of Multimedia Package on Teaching Tamil Language among High School Students.

3.     Tay Vaughan (2004). Multimedia : Making at Work (6th ed.) New Delhi, Tata Mc Graw Hill Publishing Company Limited- ISBN 0-07-059695-6.

4.     Dr. Vanaja M., Dr. S. Rajasekar, Dr. S. Arulsamy (2014). Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Education (1st ed). Hyderabad, Neelkamal Publications Pvt. Ltd. ISBN: 978-81-8316-519-8.

 

 

Received on 20.10.2016

Modified on 04.12.2016

Accepted on 20.12.2016

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Research J. Humanities and Social Sciences. 7(4): October- December, 2016, 289-292.

DOI:  10.5958/2321-5828.2016.00047.4