ELT-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
By Dr.Attanu Bhattacharya
By Dr.Attanu Bhattacharya
Quality and
Authenticity of Web Resources
Why Do We Need to
Evaluate Online Resources?
Everyone and anyone
can create content online. Today, it’s hard to determine whether an internet
resource you find is authentic or not.
Evaluating online
resources is an important step in any research process. Identifying trustworthy
content should be part of your research journey.
If you’re looking for
factual resources, search through newspaper publications, TV news, journals,
official pamphlets, books, and magazines. But, nowadays people opt to search
for information on the Internet. They tend to believe anything posted on the
Internet without even checking for credibility.
Satire and fake news
sites publish erroneous data; people believe these sites because of their
persuasive, believable nature. If you’re looking for a credible resource, you
should avoid hoax sites as this may affect the veracity of your study.
Meanwhile, many
content publishers rely heavily on copying content and owning those as theirs
to get decent followership. Duplicating content and passing it as if it is
their own content is copyright infringement or plagiarism.
In this guide, we will
help you improve your knowledge and skill in evaluating online resources. We
will guide you on how to check a resource for authenticity and credibility.
Moreover, we will
discuss skills that you will need to assess a resource such as speed reading
and skimming. As an evaluator, you should be familiar with the different
citation and referencing styles. Also, we will review several content issues
like plagiarized content, DMCA, and copyrights, and web content accessibility.
Evaluating Online
Resources
There are several
aspects that you should look for in evaluating online resources. You should
check:
• who published the content
(Authorship),
• where was it published
(Publication),
• when was it published (Currency
and Relevance),
• the truthfulness and integrity of
the facts (Accuracy),
• how it is written and presented
(Purpose and Objectivity),
• and what references are cited
within the article (Links)
Authorship
The author of the
content is a concern when considering the eligibility of the content. First of
all, the author should be an expert on the subject discussed in the article. He
should have the credentials to back up his knowledge of the subject matter.
Usually, the
information about the author can be found on the website along with the
content. The name of the author can be found below the title, on the side of
the article, or at the bottom. Sometimes, more information on the author is
found below the article, also known as an author’s bio. An author may be
credited if he is oftentimes mentioned in other authoritative websites.
But, it is not easy to
verify an author’s background through the Internet. Website articles and
resources rarely have fact-checkers or editors for copyediting an article.
Another thing to consider is that authors vary in tone and purpose. Some do it
for their personal blog. Other authors are advocates of a cause, while others
do it for marketing their product or service.
Publication
If the information
about the author is not present, the publisher of the resource article can be
checked for authority.
Take a quick look at
the website. Are you familiar with the publication name? Is the publisher
reputable and credible on the subject matter? Look at the website name, its
logo, the URL of the website, and other indicators that can prove its
reliability on the topic. One quick look at the URL can help you determine if
it’s a reliable source or not. Trustworthy websites end in .org, .edu, .gov, or
any recognizable web address.
Another way to check
the publisher’s site is via it’s About Us and Contact Us page. These pages will
contain information about the publisher. You can countercheck their details by
conducting another search.
Reliable websites publish
content that is relevant or under the same scope as the resource page that you
found. Check how often do they publish content and if they published related
content as well. News and publication websites (NYTimes, BBC, The Washington
Post, TIME, etc.), are authority sites for facts. Consider the resource’s
credibility if the publisher has mentioned or been mentioned by authority sites
English Language Teaching, or ELT, refers to the activity and
industry of teaching English to non-native speakers. Many large editorial
companies have ELT sections
which publish books for English teachers and learners to use
Key-Points From DR.Atanu Bhattacharya
"Language is Imporrtant for Philosophy":-
"Philosophy of language" refers to an area
of philosophy concerned with the syntactic properties as well as the meaning and
reference of linguistic expressions, the things implied or indicated by
linguistic expressions and the attributes of linguistic expressions as a
function of linguistic and conversational contexts
William Jones
Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April
1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of
Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly
known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and
Indo-Aryan languages.
Matr mater mater mother
pitr pater pather father
Communicative Competence
Discourse
1) Cohesion 2) Coherence
- Speech Arts
- Testing
- Specific,Particular,Objective
- Evaluation
- Generalized,Objective
- Assesment
- Feedback
Sociolinguistics
- ELT-Historical Perspective
- Literature for Language Teaching: The use of literature as a popular technique for teaching
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language skills (i.e. reading, writing, listening and speaking) and language areas ( vocabulary,grammar and pronunciation) in our times. Reasons for using literary texts in foreign language classroom and main criteria for selecting suitable literary texts in foreign language classes are stressed so as to make the reader familiar with the underlying reasons and criteria for language teachers’ using and selecting literary texts. Moreover, literature and the teaching of language skills, benefits of different genres of literature (i.e. poetry, short fiction, drama and novel) to language teaching and some problems encountered by language teachers within the area of teaching English through literature (i.e. lack of preparation in the area of literature teaching in TESL / TEFL programs, absence of clear-cut objectives defining the role of literature in ESL / EFL, language teachers’ not having the background and training in literature, lack of pedagogically-designed appropriate materials that can be used by language teachers
To Sum Up: As per the experience it was nice because the content of ELT which was very well taught us. He tellls about Language,Learning ,Assesment, Evaluation, Testing ,Communication etc.
He has share his experience about language problems it was funny thing in this session.
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