USE OF MEDIA AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL TOOL IN ELT AT UNDER GRADUATE LEVEL

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The present scholar’s experiments in the class room related to the media using the print media while teaching English at the undergraduate level and the students’ enthusiastic response has been the source of inspiration for the present paper. Here is an effort to concretize unplanned language teaching experiment into a well planned, syllabus-oriented and academically productive package.
It was observed that most of the students in the trial class improved in their comprehension skills as well as their vocabulary after reading newspapers, magazines, journals, articles and other printed materials provided by the teacher. Students enthusiastically responded to the transistor carried by the teacher and the occasional trips to the TV room. It was heartening to note that all of them irrespective of their medium of instruction showed tremendous interest in listening and watching programmes. It was observed that those students who had the opportunity to listen to the news on radio and TV showed an increased awareness of Mother Tongue Influence (MTI) in their spoken English. It was also noticed that there was a deep sense of joy and fulfillment among the students because they got an opportunity to enjoy learning English language with out being conscious of grammar rules. All of them enjoyed themselves while learning from these sources and quite happily narrated how they used media in order to learn English.
Therefore it is not surprising that many teachers feel strongly about the role of media in an educational setting. Several teachers believe that the print media will also help in developing the reading and writing ability of the students by supplementing the text books with realia. Many language experts claim that introducing the ...

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...iting material can become a motivational force to push the learner towards the target language.

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