Name:- Bhatt Urvi B
Roll No-04
M.A-2 Sem-4
Paper:- E.C- 402 English Language Teaching 2
Topic:- On-line Communication
Submitted to:- Dr.Dilip Barad
Dept of English,
Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar
On-line Communication
What is Communication? --The word communication suggests, to communicate, to interact, sharing or exchange of knowledge and idea, to pass or spread message. Generally communication is something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups. Communication is kind of which is performed by people by many ways which is called as a ‘medium’. Communication can be done by talking with each other- face-to-face, or on telephone or mobile or by letters.
In the past communication was taken place with sending letters by paragons or by the servants, then it change its form and communication was done through letters by the post service. From past many years telephone became one on the finest medium to communicate and interact. And now it changes into mobile and e-mail.
What is On-line Communication?—The term ‘On-line communication’ is refers to reading, writing and communication through the use of networked computers. In on-line communication people can talk, chat or share their knowledge, ideas and views with use of networked computers. Computers are connected through the network. Internet is the medium for on-line communication.
History of On-line Communication-- The on-line communication has started in 1960s. US researchers first developed protocol that allowed to sending and receiving of messages via computer. In 1969, the ARPANET was launched by the team of scientists which eventually evolved into the internet and bring together over 200 million people around the world at the start of the twenty-first century. In 1980s, on-line communication reach into the educational realm. In the same time there was also development and spreading of personal computers. On-line communication, gradually became popular in all the fields of education. It also made its place in the field of ‘Language Teaching’ and in that field, background of on-line communication can be divided into two distinct periods, introduction of computer-mediated communication in education in the mid-1980s and the emergence of the ‘www’(world wide web) in the mid-1990s.
Computer Mediate Communication is define as a the first period in which language educators began to discover the potential of computer- mediate communication for language teaching. This was the first period of time in which using an E-mail in education was started by the students and teachers in schools and colleges. Using an e-mail in an educational fields became the beginning of new era of on-line communication.
World Wide Web(www) is the international on-line database the allows the sharing of linked multimedia documents. These documents can be authored in a non-linear, layered and linked format, which referred to as hypertext or hypermedia. For example, www.google.com. The development and spread of world wide web , or internet in 1990s marked a second period in the use of on-line communication in language teaching. With use of web computer-mediate communication through web-based chat rooms, bulletin boards and discussion forums could be possible. The internet adds a new dimension to on-line communication and learning by allowing students to find and read on-line documents, articles and journals and other variety of topics related to their subjects. Students can not only read on-line documents but also share with other students or other group of people.
For any classroom activity three things are very important. Interaction, reading-writing, and affect. These three things are taking into consideration in language teaching and learning. Teacher should aware with these three aspects of language teaching. How these three aspects of language learning fulfilled using internet? Answer is social websites. There are many social websites which used for gating and sharing knowledge. Students can use such websites to improve their learning and can also share their views with the group of people at the simultaneously.
Interaction: - Interaction means to do or to say something on any particular topic which made an effect on each other. In language learning interaction is made between teacher and students or between the group of students. Studies of L2 computer mediate interaction have looked at the linguistic characteristics of computer mediate messages, the type of negotiation and linguistic modification that occur, and the patterns of participation that emerge.
A- Linguistic characteristics- it is very important question for both first and second level language researcher, whether computer-mediate communication has its own distinctive linguistic features? The students of L2 finds that communication and conversation via email is more reliable and time consuming than on-paper .
Comparison between two modes of communication came with final decision that communication and conversation via email or chatting is more complex and lexically more dense than face-to-face conversation. In this comparative study it also found that L2 students writing via email is more informal and conversational than their writings via pencil and paper. This comparative studies suggests that computer mediate communication can help serve as a useful bridge between speaking and writing by facilitating L2 interaction that is linguistically complex yet informal and communicative.
B- Negotiation and linguistic modification suggests that how L2 learners modify their communication in negotiation and interaction with others. After many researches and studies the result suggests that extensive incorporation of new syntactical patterns or lexical chunks during computer-mediated interaction and have concluded that the on-line medium; facilitates such incorporation by allowing greater opportunity to study incoming messages and carefully to plan responses.
C- Patterns of participation includes that computer-mediated communication tends to feature more balanced participation than face-to-face conversation, with less dominance by outspoken individuals. In computer-mediate communication, students participated more and more. Those students who least participated in face-to-face conversation increasingly participated in computer-mediate conversation. In comparison of L1 students, L2 students are more interested to participate in computer-mediate communication than in face-to-face. It shows that computer-mediate communication can be more helpful to encourage students to participate in communication and conversation with each other than face-to-face conversation and communication.
Current social cites used for on-line communication:-
Conclusion:-
On-line communication is, for new generation of people, becomes one of the important medium of sharing and getting knowledge and ideas. Today it becomes part of the life. A person who cannot share his/her views face-to-face he/she can share views, ideas, knowledge and also feelings through chatting, mailing, blogging and so on.
