LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 22:7 July 2022
ISSN 1930-2940

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Role of Language Teachers to Use Multimedia for Language Teaching and Strategies to Develop Multimedia Packages

Sam Mohan Lal, Ph.D.

Abstract

This article gives a brief sketch about the historical development of various stages of the development of language teaching by giving more importance to second language teaching methods. Further, it also highlights about the latest development in multimedia-based language teaching methodology and how and why language teachers should get themselves familiarized with this computer-based language teaching techniques. Apart from this mention is also made in this article how the language teachers can help in preparing need-based multimedia packages in order to enhance the quality of language teaching.

Keywords: Multimedia, Language Teaching, Strategies to Develop Multimedia Packages.

It is not a misnomer to say that it is almost an impossibility to identify a country, city or even a small town which is purely monolingual. In other words, the multilingualism and multiculturalism is prevalent in every part of the world. Subsequent to this, mutual dependency of the multilingual societies is inevitable. This leads the societies to learn one another’s languages and get acquainted with their cultures. As a result, the second language teaching techniques became imminent.

Though the history of second language teaching methods and techniques can be traced much prior to 1850s, systematic approaches to teach and learn second languages have become more popular during the year 1850. Since then, more than 9 approaches to second language teaching have been formulated and practiced in the discipline of language teaching. Among them Grammar translation method, Direct method, Audio-lingual method, Audio visual method of language teaching, Structural approach to language teaching or Situational method, Humanistic approach to language teaching, Communicative language teaching, Task based language teaching, Eclectic approach to language teaching etc. are some of the methods prevalent even now.

Apart from the various methodologies the language teachers have their own unique way of following certain teaching strategies and prepare need based instructional materials. Unless this is not followed there will not be any success in attaining the required results as far as learning achievement is concerned.

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Sam Mohan Lal, Ph.D.
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Central Institute of Indian languages
Mysore
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