In this video David Crystal talks about how technology influenced English language dramatically. For this he compared very beautifully,
Newspaper - Television - Radio
&
Internet
( Facebook, Twitter, Text messages)
Further he talks about brief history of technology. Printing press arrived in the 15th century. After then we have new varieties of English language. Then Comparatively he talks about the technology today. Now in today's time if we talk about Newspaper then we find Cartoons, certain captions and many more things but in past there were not such things like this. In 19th century the telephone arrived but people didn't know how to dealt with this. Very interesting thing is that when they pick up the phone they shouted. But people thought that it brought great disasters in society. And of course it brought. After 1920s the development of broadcasting it introduced various languages. Radio and television became centre and provided the cricket and football commentary to the people.
Now the internet is doing the same thing. The World Wide Web arrives in 1991. Google came to exist in 1990. Before that it didn't exist. Blogging in 2003 and Email came to exist in 1999 and 2000. Facebook in 2004, YouTube in 2005 and Twitter in 2006. These all are the examples of new technologies or new style of English language. Technologies influence language in specific ways. For example Text messages and tweeting. Text messages provide 140 characters and Twitter provides 160 characters. Through the use of Twitter people came to know that Twitter introduce us to what is in the minds of people and what is going on around. After then it also provides such an interesting advertisement. This is how Twitter started providing us such an information and it influenced language. David Crystal says that I believe that the English language is the same as it was before 20 years ago. These all are information which David Crystal said in this video about how technology influenced language.
♧ The biggest challenge for English Teachers in the time of Internet
In this video David Crystal gives the information about how language is changing so fast. For that he gives two major reasons,
First Reason
Second Reason
Internet - which is indeed fostering new varieties and new experiences faster than ever before in the Old days.
The Second main reason is the globalization of English language.
If you invent one word it took a generation to become popular but now in this time if you invent one word and put it on Facebook it takes only 24 hours or less. Language is moving faster and teachers have got to keep pace with this because their students are already ahead of them. If teachers want to teach South African language to their students then what they can do. Can they go South Africa? Or can they go South African Schools ? How ridiculous. But now it is possible to learn even whatever languages you want to learn because of Internet. Just search on Google it will teach you language with audio or you can learn in perticular South African schools through Skype. There are two big difficulties : Translating and interpreting and second language teaching because no human aspect is more complex than language.
♧ Texting is " Good " for English Language
In this video David Crystal tells about how texting is good for English language especially for kids. He expresses his views in a very funny way. He says that,
" A lot of people believe that texting is done by kids only secondly that the kids fill their text messages with their abbreviations and abbreviations are invented by the kids it's a modern thing. Because the kids are leaving the letters out, they don't know how to spell. They are putting all these things into essays and examinations and as a result they are gone, we're going to rear a generation of kids are going to be totally illiterate and everyone of those statements is a load of chicken dropping. "
Further in this video he talks about to put it in practice. He says that,
" More you read, more you write
&
The more you texts, the better your literary scores. "
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