Reflective blog : Professor Atanu Bhattacharya

• Reflective blog : Professor Atanu Bhattachary

Hello Readers this blog about three day's session on ELT by professor Atanu Bhattacharya. He from central University Gandhinagar. From 25th to 28th Atannu sir came to our department for ELT- 2 [ English language teaching- 2] . It is very enjoyable and importance for me.

first day Session : sir briefly talk about History of English language teaching. Sir starts with Renaissance with briefly detailing of it to 19th & 20th century.How the language played an important role in literature sir said and explain with many examples. the language played an important role in literature sir said and explain with many examples.And said language can not be learning to join any spoken classes because it is practical process of learning and learning is not set dialogue because conversation always change it depends on dialogue. Also phonetic is also important for language teaching for example- how to pronounce ship and sheep in different ways .Sir mentioned the Methods like: 1) Natural Method/ Direct Method , 2)Grammar Translation Method, 3) Audio-lingual method ,IPA International phonetic Alphabet- you can't learn language by learning rules,you learn language by using the language. IPA sets the rules of English language, here translation should be used only as support.

Second day session:Sir said about one notable observations which I can't imagine before this lecture, sir said why Indian has problem to learn article because we use number formation in the sentence while British language has article like a, an and the.sir takes us to the novel and poetry with language and literature. Sir teach with practical exercise. Language has skill to develop criticism,not only for communication but the thought process.Teaching poetry How to teaching poetry ? With help of image and developed vocabulary drill of students and suggest to students define register word and tone or attitude of writer.Considering Learner's learning styles :
• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinaesthetic
• Studial
• Analytic
• Dependent• Independent

Representative ( common part of speech; assertion, conclusion) Directive ( Request, ordering and questioning)
Communiques (promising, offering)
Expressive ( thanking, apologizing, welcoming)
Declaration ( problems by specific person)

third day session :Testing means test specific particular objective, evaluation is general term it is not about particular subject but it is general ideas of particular there score can not get score. Assessment is feedback, it is require to say what we have to do at the next time.To set rubric and evaluate students spoken skills. For example check which students belonging to which category- Set category like fluent, competence, Average, poor. 1] Proficiency test :-2] Achievement test :-
3] Diagnostic tests :-
4] placement tests:-
5] Norm referenced testing
6] Criterion referenced testing

Research field-
At the past research studies and the future of English research studies . which are topic best for research scholar. If research scholar want to research on language then they have to do Linguistics explorations working towards an integrated multimedia approach -technical Orientation, social orientation, social history orientation.

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