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Welcome to my blog here I am going to write about the views of David Crystal in English language and English language teaching. So let's see.
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David Crystal, OBE, FBA, FLSW, FCIL is a British linguist, academic, and author.
David Cystal : The Effect of New Technologies on English
The Effect of New Technologies on English
Now when new technology comes along it influences language it has to technology. Always has influenced language quite dramatically think of the technologies of the past printing arrives in the 15th century suddenly we have new varieties of English that weren't there before new varieties of any language of course but we're talking about English today we have newspapers eventually and look at the style of a newspaper with its headlines and all the cartoons and the captions and the editorials and all the things you now know about a newspaper once a time there.
The web nobody blogged before about 2003. Facebook 2004 only Facebook has not been here forever only 2004 YouTube 2005. Twitter 2006.
Technologies developing into new styles of English now each of these internet outputs that he was talk about has a distinctive English style or any language style. Blogging or Facebooking or twitting and so on. The technologies influence the language in quite specific ways.
The English language today is not the same it was 20 years ago that's rubbish : the English language today is almost identical with what it was 20 years ago, know there new abbreviations that have come into text messaging like lol you know lol you know things like this but this is cool stuff but there isn't very much like that this is tiny fraction of the English language the vast majority of English is exactly the same today as it was 20 years ago in a hundred years time maybe there will be a lot of influence from the internet but at the moment it's pretty stable so should authority figures be worried about texting and Facebook and social media or should they just be encouraged to see it as a temporary phenomenon which does not affect the basic.
David Crystal: The Effect of New Technologies on Engish
The Biggest challenges for Teachers
The biggest challenge without a doubt it to keep pace with language change no question that is the difficulty always has been a difficulty with teaching but it's particularly a difficult now gives that language is changing so fast it's changing for two reasons one reason the internet which is indeed fostering new varieties and few experiences faster.
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