LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:2 February 2018
ISSN 1930-2940

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Use of Web Resources in
Fine-tuning English Language Skills among the Students

Dr. K. Nagaraju, M.A. (English), Ph.D.

Abstract

In traditional class rooms, bright students find the teaching slow and weak students find it too fast. With the advent of IT, all aspects of our life and life style are changing. CAI (Computer Assisted Instruction) becomes a topic of great interest to educators. Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is the offshoot of this effort. This paper will discuss about the paradigm shift that has come into being in regard to language learning, with the advent of computer training in all fields.

Keywords: Classroom teaching, CAI (Computer Assisted Instruction), Language learning, Language skills, Web-based resources

A Paradigm Shift to Language Acquisition

CALL uses attractive pictures, animation, music and human voice in the background which makes it livelier and gets the individual attention of the students. The online environment provides both inexperienced and experienced teachers, updated materials that are easy to adopt for use in classroom. CALL has provided a new lease of life to the language teachers. Language teachers today have the opportunities of combining a variety of materials to help them in the process of developing the language skills of the learners.

Flexibility and adaptability of course materials for language instruction with availability of online resources offers a wider choice for language teachers. Multimedia computers have given us the ability to work with all types of information. Since all types of information exist in digital form, they can easily be processed, stored or retrieved from databases and copied without loss of quality, or shared over the internet protocol networks. The possibility of using different media in one single interface has exciting prospects for the teaching and learning of English.

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K. Nagaraju M.A. (English), Ph.D. Candidate
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities & Sciences
Aurora’s Engineering College
AEC College Rte.
Bhuvanagiri 508116
Telangana
India
naastra@gmail.com

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