Fahrenheit 451 is a book written by Ray Bradbury, published in 1953. This is very significant Dystopian novel. The story is unusual with mystery elements. We cannot decode the meaning with one reading. However it is highly symbolical work, which presents the reality of society.
The title itself is symbolic which means any book will burn automatically in the temperature of 451 Fahrenheit. The protagonist Montag is doing job of a fireman who used to burn the books, but he wants to know about books that what harm these books cause. Therefore he used to hide books in the ceiling of his room. Later on when his hidden books comes out in front of his wife, she orders him to burn. But Montag refuses to do that. Beatty is a boss of Montag and main antagonist of the novel. He also forced Montag to burn his house where he kept book. Mildred, the wife of Montag thinks that books are the cause of worry, it has no value and always brings suffering.
Historical background
There is historical background behind the book burning incident of the novel. Book burning begins in May 10, 1933. The book burning stood as powerful symbol of Nazi intolerance and censorship. The students create a blacklist of books written by Bertolt Brecht, Earnest Hemingway, Erich that were to be thrown into the flames. It is a way of suppressing dissenting ideas.With the idea of this event Fahrenheit 451 is written.
There is one incident of reciting Dover beach (Matthew Arnold) by the protagonist Montag in the story to know about its effect but it cause Mrs Phelps to cry and therefore he burns that book. Dover beach is about the conflict of science and religion. This work ended with sadness and loneliness stating that there is no joy or love.
Various interpretations
This novel can be interpret in many ways, one among those is the rise to mass media. With the development in technology, students reduces likeness of reading books and remains on mobile all the time. It cannot be taken into another way that students are spoiling their future, however student are learning online. There is idea of e-book which helps to carry any book in pocket. We can read it any time. Therefore there is no need of hard copy if we have soft copy (It burns the idea of hard copy).
The another way of interpreting story is don't judge anything without fact checking means, even the character of the story didn't burn the book without knowing its harm. He has keen desire to know that whatever books he has picked up from the burning place, whether it carries any meaning or not.
Mystery
This is mystical novel because there is sudden death of woman who burns herself because she never wants to live her house and her books. This generates curiosity in the mind of Montag that what was there in the book which makes people unable to detach from it and ready to commit suicide inspite of leaving books. There is sudden missing of the neighbour of protagonist who used to communicate everyday with him. The answers which Montag gets for her missing also unreliable.
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1. Effect of Globalization in the novel
Globalization is the process of interaction among people. This whole story circulate around the effect of Globalization. All the six characters Shyam, Vroom, Esha, Radhika, Priyanka, Military Uncle works in a call centre where they have to talk with foreigners on call whole night. They are helping foreigners in fixing problem of home appliances. They are connecting with global world and work as an human resource, sharing Ideas.
‘Yes sir. I sound like your daughter? Oh, thank you. So what is wrong
with the vacuum cleaner/’ she was saying.
‘Your voice is so soothing,’ the caller said.
‘Thanks you sir. So, the vacuum cleaner…?’
But If we look at the effect then we can find that their life, happiness, freedom everything is ruined by Globalization. They are working whole night under the pressure of cruel boss Bakhshi. They are working for money even if they get insulted by the global people. Capitalism is the centre of global world. They have to use sugarcoated language. When the foreigner come to know about the Indian working in call centre then he used to mock on Indian for different accent. Foreigners are surprised that how the Indian who has not seen the appliance, is ready to help or suggest the solution for its defect. Global world always looks at India as a poor country. There is also fun on big banner of advertisement which shows the fakeness, as there is the picture of smiling woman but Vroom says that it is not that simple to smile like her with coca-cola. These all advertisement are meant to trapped people with sugarcoated logos. This is the fakeness of multinational companies which can do anything to sold their product.
2. Narrative structure of the novel and its comparison with Life of Pi.
There is unreliable narrative structure in the novel because from the very beginning the story is narrated by a strange woman to Chetan Bhagat in the train. Then she forced him to write it as his second book without mentioning her name. Chetan Bhagat then write story and used one character Shyam for narration. In this way it becomes unreliable.
There is similarity of narrative structure between Life of Pi and One Night @call centre. In the life of Pi, the protagonist told the story to the writer, just like the woman in the train telling story to Chetan Bhagat. There are two stories being told and it was upon the writer that which they select to write, the one is with God or the one without God. In both the cases the writer chose to write story with God.
3. Theme of Nationalism in the novel "a thirty-five-year-old
American’s brain and IQ is the same as a ten-years-old Indian’s brain"
There are many incidents in the novel which reflects the theme of nationalism and Anti- American Idea. The character of Vroom is used to satire on the inhuman nature of Americans. He was badly insulted by the American because of his Indian accent. Therefore he built a strong disliking for them. When he asked question to god that why they given to Americans so much wealth not Indians?, then God also gave Anti-American answer by saying that Americans are not the happiest people on earth because it is obsessed with war. God also share Idea to win over Americans. There is praise of Indian people and their level of intelligence. In this way Chetan Bhagat very smartly presents the theme of nationalism in the novel.
4. Cyberpunk novel
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction. Its characteristics are as follows:-
i) Sci-fi (scientific fiction)
ii) Strong sense of helplessness
iii) Misery
iv) Dystopic Idea
v) Loss of morality/humanity
vi) MN corporations control over the life of workers
These all characteristic we find in the novel. This is absolutely scientific fiction which deals with the innovative side of society. The workers work on computer screen, day and night and connected with the global world because of the invention of telephones. Despite of this there is strong sense of helplessness, misery, loss of morality. All six characters suffers a lot. They are living in Dystopic world where no one is happy. All have their different problem and they don't know how to come out of these miseries. On the other side we can find loss of morality in these characters when they blackmailed Bakhshi and get money to start their new business. All are working under the pressure of Multi National company which ruins their joy of living. MN companies always get more work at low wages.
After the celebration of kite festival (14th Jan), on the next day we get surprise lecture by Dr. Jay Mehta Sir on Mass Media and Communication. It was very fruitful to get the basic knowledge about media, its development form the ancient time.
There are six major sources of mass media:-
i) Radio
ii) Television
iii) Cinema
iv) Advertisement
v) Newspaper
vi) Digital Media
Things are changing from past to present, from ancient to modern. Earlier there were only one TV channel 'Doordarshan' which is much like 'Dookhdarshan' because you have to wait for the broadcasting of series whole day and at some specific time during night the final red, yellow strips began to show then the programme came. It is much longer wait than usual for any type of show on tv. However if we look at present time then things were totally changed. Now we do not have to wait, there are numbers of channels. We can choose whatever we want to watch.
Mass media is glamour oriented means it present things which are highly glamorous, rarely we find factual things. There is one film "Rann" which is a satire on mass media and its culture.
Radio also plays a vital role since from beginning. It used to spread news from one region to other with interesting songs in between. Aakashvani channel is most popular which is known all over. Radio works with brevity and there are three language used by the RJ, Hindi, English and the local language of the regional area.
Advertisement is also an important section of mass media and communication. There is scope of creativeness in the field of advertisement. It function mainly on language and human psyche. It attacks on all senses of human beings.
For example- 'Santoor' which earlier used to offer spoon as a gift to attracts the typical housewife. They began to but more and more Santoor for the collection of spoons without thinking rationally that in the cost of Santoor, spoon's cost already added. In this way Production companies used to blind peoples through their heavy advertisements.
Cinema is mostly used for serving entertainment purpose. The very first silent film is 'Alam Ara" which opens the door of theatres. And then there were so many films started to release. There is shift from silent to talking, black and white to colorful films. Earlier woman are not allowed to play roles in films because it is consider as something cheap, lowest level. But films are not only for entertainment. It carries serious social issues, focusing on the gap between the rich and poor class. According to latest trend there is much focus on the middle class.
Digital media is famous among youth culture. But there is also fakeness, it spread lies among young people who are easily driven by falseness in this post truth era. There are trolls everywhere, you will not find place to speak with freedom. These are some limitations of Digital media.
Newspaper is also very important which used the language of target audience. There is one word "Presstitute" which is a portmanteau of "Press" and "Prostitute", means media sells themselves and spread lies among peoples through news. Media is always remains under power and it never speak against the power position. But that thing is not good for society. There is need to uncover the corrupt politicians rather than praising them or remaining in their side. That is the beauty of democracy which makes blind and hides the truth and reality. Paid media is never a good idea for the betterment of society.
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Favorite Mass Media Platform for Communication
Mass Media means technology that is intended to reach a mass audience through communication. My favorite mass media platform is Instagram. Instagram is connected with facebook and with facebook account you can easily make your Instagram account with same password and name. It is as easy as watsapp. Even if you do not have facebook account, you can make Insta Id with new beginning.
Reasons for liking Instagram
1. The very first reason is its simplicity. It is not tough to use as like Facebook. Some people finds many difficulties in Facebook, specially about its setting(Privacy setting)
2. Any one can easily access to Insta Id.
3. Much safer than Facebook because there is two sides of approval if you or the other party have private account. Anyone cannot look into your post till you have not approved their request and even after approval if their account is private too, then you need to send request as well to get their posts.
4. You can connect with worldwide. There you can get authenticity of official Id of Stars, TV Actor, Actoress etc with blue tick.
5. You can communicate with people that you want. Here the different case is that even if you are friends and sharing post with each other, still you need to approve or send message request. It is not like Facebook in which once you become friends then you can share any messages.
6. It can provide you all the information that you want by liking or following important page. It keeps on sharing important updates, only we need to follow them.
7. Instagram is very much entertaining with its unique design of story making where you can keep that story forever on your highlights by making digital diary of photographs.
Drawbacks
There is no such thing with perfection. Everything has its limitations. Therefore Instagram shares the following drawbacks:-
1. People becomes so much obsessed of their followers that they are ready to do anything to increase their like button.
2. People spending day and night on Insta without any control because it gives different kind of entertainment too with IGTV.
3. Less academic than Facebook.
4. Difficult to get true identity of fake people like Facebook.
So this is about my favorite Mass Media Instagram. Media serves very important role in our life, one needs to understand its importance. Media is not for entertainment purpose only. You can get much knowledge from Media than any other things or surroundings. We have to think out of box, the box of entertainment. There are other things too which requires same attention.
Talk with an author is never ordinary. Authors are famous for using symbolical language. Dr. Vishal Bhadani talk on his collection of short stories entitled "Fictionalay" and its significance in the life of common people. Not only he has read two stories but also given tips to write short stories or any creative work. Writing is very important in our life. If we write everyday then also we can develop our writing skills. I had read three short stories of "Fictionalay" that is "Mara hath ni wat nathi", "Sansai ane Ranjana", "Museum of innocence". All these stories are connected with middle class people.
i) Mara hath ni wat nathi
In this story the writer covers all the basic things but the title itself is challenging. The title is a satire that even the thing is not in control of author still he has highlights all the basic things. He begins to describe or connect the outer things or problems of society with the different part of hands. Like palm, finger, thumb etc. He has connected various part of hand with different things of world wide like Vasco da gama, time, universe, Buddha, Lord Vishnu, Goddess Lakshmi etc. In this way he has connected things smartly. This is the way that how writer deals with society symbolically. Therefore this is highly symbolic work. ii) Museum of Innocence
If we look at the title then we get assumption that the story might be includes some foreigners. The title represent the modern world. English becomes language of Elite society. But the reality is different, the story is totally contrasted with the title. It is about villagers. There is one letter from Istanbul pass to the village. But the letter is in English language and only one boy named Jiglo is able to read English. Sarpanch of Sanosara calls Jiglo to read that letter loudly and to translate it. In this letter Istanbul is asking for Innocent thing for the new "Museum of Innocence". All the Villagers becomes curious that which innocent thing they will send to Instanbul. When they didn't get answer from anyone then they call Old Kadvi Doshi. Her name is symbolic because she spoke in satire only. She is very intellectual and smartly brings solution to the problem. She said that the Banyan tree is the most innocent than any other thing because from many years people used to sit there and it still without any complaint standing there and giving shadow to all the villagers who used to sit there and talk for hours and hours. The first reason of considering it as innocent is it grows naturally without any help or support. These all reasons which seems silly to us but carries deeper meaning. Feminism
In this story we can apply feminism theory also because when no one is able to give solution to the problem then the oldest lady of the village very easily brings immediate solution. It can be interpret that the author want to present woman as intellectual who can think outside of Kitchen. Woman if they given chance then they prove themselves as the best advisor also.
In this way two short stories can be interpreted in many ways as possible. The writer's work is to write then it is upon readers that how they interpret as per their own understanding.
Dr. Vishal Bhadani read very significant dream sequence "Gujarat Express". The story is resembling with Chetan Bhagat's One Night @ the Call Centre because both these stories are based on fantasy. the writer meet one girl at the compartment of cell and then at last the climate came as if everything they think, talk was a part of dream. The difference is in "Gujarat Express" there is spirit who introduce the story and in Chetan's work it is real man. In this way Gujarat Express is Ghost lore.
Translation
After the introduction of story we have session of translation in which Vishal sir spoke about the job opportunities in the field of translation. Translation is very tough but the greatest work. We had done one task of translating phrase also. Legal translation is best than any other translation. There is joy in translation. Sometimes simple phrase is translated in much joyous way. Some translations are very difficult and we find problem in searching the appropriate word for that, for example the mythological bird "Bharand" which have two faces is difficult to translate in English.
Gandhiji translated 'Improvise' as 'Civilization', which is totally different word. But translation is not about to choose the same word but we can select other word also which suits more than the original. In this way we get knowledge about translation and things that we have to taken into consideration while translating any work of art.
We have many assumptions in our mind regarding French people on the basis of our study. We have studied French history, including French Revolution, French colonialism, Yellow vest movement etc. The general result which we found is that there is much violence than peace. But this is not with the case of France only. In India also we can see the same situation. There are so many similarities between India and France.
Surprisingly we get chance to interact with French professors from the University of Lorraine. Thanks to Prof. Kishore Joshi from Economics department who brings French professors for meaningful interaction. Prof. Saeed Paivandi and Prof. Fontanini Christine talk on various social, economical, political trends of France.
Gap between rich and poor
Prof. Fontanini Christine talks about the gap between rich and poor. She has thrown light on the societal issue of France. The more money was with rich only and middle and poor remains aloof from the biggest part of wealth. As they are sharing only 10 percent (for example). However remaining 90(for example) percent was with big money holder, big companies, market. In this way the gap increases between them because of unequal distribution of wealth. Same is the case with India also.
Feminism
The question always arise in our mind that how much percentage of girls are studying as compared to boys in school and colleges and in which field. The answer we get is more percentage of girls in the field of humanities than boys. However there is lesser percentage of girls in the field of computer studies. More boys are in the side of technology. Male are more in the area where he can get more money and female remains in the area where she is less paid or almost didn't paid for housework. Unemployment and Education
In France, the more you are educated, the more job opportunities u get, In India that is reverse, the more u educate, the more u get unemployment rate. There are less job opportunities for the educated masses in India and more for uneducated at cheaper cost, means with lowest salary.
In this way we get much information about France and also get authenticity of our assumption when we meet real people.
I am writing this blog to share my experience of first national paper reading competition, as before I have presented my presentation on International conference. Every year Saurashtra University, Rajkot organised National Paper Reading Competition. This is the third time with the topic "Children's Literature: Fantasy and Beyond". There are many sub topics on which participants from different region presented their paper. The number of participants is 29. There are maximum two individual participant from each university. We (me and my partner Prakruti Bhatt) reached day before and having amazing dinner with the president of association Sanjay Mukherjee sir and Dhvani mam.
7th January
The day begins with delicious breakfast, Thepla, Aalu paratha, Chilly, Tea, Coffee in the lap of nature. Then the inaugural session begins at 10.30. Prof. Kamal Mehta, Head of Department of Saurashtra University introduced the judges and welcomes all the participants with his great speech. The three judges are, Maulik Vyas, Harin Majithia, Mahesh Jivani. All these judges looks at different sides of research paper. Mahesh Jivani has looked on the technical side, means he checked the plagiarism count. Maulik vyas and Harin Majithia saw the overall performance of the participants and gave marks accordingly.
The first participant is Ndayikengurukiye Eliphase from Dravidian University. He has presented on "The Role of Fantasy in Intellectual Development of Children". He gave his argument well and also answered all the questions with apt examples. Overall his presentation is justified to the title of his paper. He is basically from Burundi, Africa, therefore there is some problem of understanding his accent, but still he does his job well. He is too much confident and also recited one beautiful poem at the cultural evening session. Lastly he shared his review of reading paper in the valedictory session.
There are many participants, but only some are eye catching because of their uniqueness like Eliphase.
The other best presenter is Souvik Kar from Presidency University. He delivered his speech with ease. To listen him is just like listening a perfectionist of English Language. He read paper on "Decoding the politics of portraying Totalitarianism and Resistance in Children's fiction". It seems like he has mastered his research work. As we all know that Bengal is rich in education and Souvik is the best example of it who is representing the Bengal's talent. He has also recited amazing poem in the poetic session.
Brijesh Barasara from Shri Govind Guru University, Godhra is another example of talent from small town. He has read paper on "A comparative Study of Film and Novel: The Jungle book". He does his job well of comparing both the film and the novel and also gave satisfactory answers on the questions asked by the audience.
Prakruti Bhatt from our Department of English presented her paper on "Film Adaptations of Children's Literature". Her main focus is on the series of Harry Potter because this is the only film which remains in lots of controversy for its religious and caste based aspects. She has presented well with appropriate arguments. The main thing is error free language, which she kept into consideration and deals with judges like a real English Literature Student. Our Department is obliged to have such student.
Then the evening follows the Talk with author Harin Majithia and Poetry Recitation Programme in which many participants shown their talent of reciting poem, many recited their own creation. At the end Dr. Imran Khan, Dr. Viral Shukla recited beautiful poems, in English, Hindi and Gujarati.
To wait for next day(8 jan) becomes toughest job for me because mine turn was on next day. After listening to these all amazing participants, I feel like I am nothing in front of them. But then I think that why should I bother, I need to do only one thing that is to present myself at the level best. By gaining all the positive thoughts I presented on the next day with full of confidence. Here you can watch my paper reading embedded below.
Actually I have read at my level best. The thing I am lacking is eye contact and also deeper understanding of my topic that is Archetypal characters of Children's Literature. I had taken Five major stories to explain the basic archetype of Children Literature. we can find Hero, Villain, Friendly beast, Wizard in almost all texts. Using archetypal characters all the times not always good. Sometimes children need to think out of the box. There are limitations, like Children feels boring with the same plot structure, they may also feel that everything good is about hero only. In reality Hero also made up of some kind of imperfections. In this way Children's mind remains aloof from the reality. Ndayikengurukiye Eliphase asked one question that what was the impact of using archetypal characters on children's mind. I replied that by seeing some characters with all perfections children started thinking in same way and wants to become like them, which is impossible. In this way the definition of Hero becomes narrow in the mind of children. they have to accept the reality that the society decides what is good or bad. As per the truth behind the mindset of people there is nothing like good or bad. Something which is good for someone, can be bad for someone.
The other presenters who caught my attention are Khushboo Hirani, Preeshita Biswas, Athmika tarun. Khushboo Hirani read her paper on the topic "The depiction of Young Children Struggle in Bond's works. She is a package of confidence, and read her paper by sitting near the judge. She has no fear of anyone, that is the plus point about her. She has also asked questions to judges. Normally judges are asking questions to the participants. But here the case is two way interaction between both. Preeshita Biswas from Presidency University, Kolkata presented on "Through the Prism of Translation: Critique of Childhood in Crayon Shinchan. She has given her argument well with apt points. She has aslo draws our attention to the liking of white skin. As Shinchan craves for white woman who is black himself. This also justifies Fanon's essay Black Skin White Mask. The last but not least is Athmika Tarun from Hyderabad University. He is the only one who has made lots of eye contact. He has not read his paper but delivered his paper. He describes each and every point with apt examples regarding his topic " Reality represented: Violence in ranjit lal's Faces in the water".
The winners are:-
1. Nikita Goel (Sem1) from Central University of Gujarat (Linguistic complexities in Carrol's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the Purpose behind it)
2. Preeshita Biswas (Sem 1) from Presidency University (Through the Prism of Translation: Critique of Childhood in Crayon Shinchan)
3. Naquiyah Vasi (Sem 3) from Mumbai University (One of the greatest storytellers for Children of the 20th Century and Beyond: Roald Dahl)
Winning team-
Preeshita Biswas and Souvik Kar from Presidency University.
Hence these two day of paper reading competition ended well with lots of knowledge. Maulik Vyas talk about the importance of research paper and also described the basic points which must be taken into consideration while writing or presenting any research paper. That is, content, well argument, innovation, error free language (no use of heavy words where simple can fit), expression, judges impression, clarity of concept, rhetorical language, simplicity etc. The technical judge spoke on the technicality of research paper. He said that plagiarism is crime now a days, ccp technique means cut, copy paste will not work any more. the level of originality is raised by the scholars. Harin majithia spoke about the importance of eye contact and to be creative rather than copying someone's else material. She also said that process is important than the end result. These two days become the unforgettable days of my life.
This blog is a part of Thinking activity given by our Professor, here is the blog link of him click here Education, Technology and ELT
Q1- Why is it necessary to use technology in Education? - Using technology in education brings a huge change. It is a shift from Theosis to Praxix. Means with technology we can become more aware about the practical outcome rather than remaining only on the theoretical basis. Whatever we are learning must need some kind of practice. For example, earlier there were computer classes in schools. But it was totally theory based, there were no practices on computer screen, even the exam was given in the answer sheet by making charts of keyboard and other functional things. Hence, education fails because when student come in contact with the computer at job place they were not able to start it or work on it. With the moving of time technology and its use becomes the base of education. One cannot completely rely on old traditional method of teaching. The student learn easily with technical tools, like laptop, projector, mobile. They get things properly without much revision. If we see students who are learning in traditional method, then we can find that they are not able to catch things with one reading, but if the same thing is taught by showing them video then they can get it at one sight. With technology we can learn more things than with books only because technical tools can search worldwide example at the same time of our reading. Books were not able to do changes regarding the present time on the spot. These all things make technology useful in the education field.
Q2 and 3- What is the difference between 'using' and 'integrating' technology? How can we integrate technology? - Integration always requires equal participation from both the side, teacher and student. A teacher can use technology while teaching in class, but it makes no difference with traditional method if it is not integrated by the students. For example, a computer teacher came with her own laptop and taught student about some functional key by doing practise as herself only, not allowed students to touch. Then students cannot learn things properly there is need of integration and for that students equally required to do practice, to learn things as their own, it is good if they make error, at least they are learning something. But one side use can only harm the education system.
To integrate technology at the schools and colleges one need technical tools for both, teacher as well as students, like computer, projector, mobile generally. Mobile provides all the basis facilities like one can learn through video resources, flipped learning, blogs, web sources through mobile. In this modern age all are using mobile phones, but all are not integrating it for education.
Q4- Can technology replace teacher?
-Technology can replace teachers to some extent. Means we can search almost anything on web tools regarding our curriculum. Even there are some questions which are not answered by teachers but can answered by technology on web sources. But the point is who has put everything on websites?, who has given answers to the laptop?, who is the guiding agent?. The answer of these all questions is common that is human mind. It is human being who has made laptops, it is human who has made search engines and who has put the answers of all questions. So we can learn anything on net but we cannot understand everything by our own self, for better and deeper understanding one must required teacher. Technical tools can only answered the questions which were asked by our self but teacher will give answers generally by connecting it with all aspects of life.
Q5- Write in brief on David Crystal's view on "Effect of new technologies on English Language", "Biggest challenge for English Language teachers in the times of internet", "Texting is good for English language"
- The Effect of New Technologies on English
-Technology and its development is ongoing process. From very ancient time we are using technology in one or another way. Like the era of change begins from the discovery of Telephones. We use to communicate with peoples who are living far away. Broadcasting introduce new varieties of language, like the language of news reading, weather report is different. We use various tools like internet, google, email, blogging, Facebook for communication. These all new technologies developing new style of English language. They have distinctive English style. Like each tools includes different numbers of characters, it differs from text messaging to twitters for various purposes.
- The Biggest Challenge for English Language Teachers in the times of Internet
- To pace with language change is a biggest challenge for teachers because language is changing so fast with the help of internet. The teachers are not familiar with the new talent because their generation is over. The other problem is Globalization. As if teacher only rely on one kind of English that is British English and taught accordingly to their students then, the students were not able to get other languages when they come in contact with the global market where people from different region speaking different language with different accent. There is vast majorities with varieties of accent and dialogues. There is need to improve listening comprehension and reading from the very beginning.
- Texting is 'Good' for English Language
- Texting is a kind of language, and it is never bad to improve language through texting. But peoples are holding varies myths regarding texting and consider it bad the reasons are:-
i) Texting is done by kids only.
ii) Text messages with abbreviations entirely abbreviate these messages.
iii) Messaging is invented by the kids, its a modern thing.
iv) Kids don't know how to spell
v) There is generation of illiterate because kids don't know how to spell correctly
These all reasons are just reflecting the narrow mindedness of the people. These are not facts. It is not only kids, but mostly things are done by adults. More than half generation are using mobile and everyone is doing messaging. Literacy is important, and it needs more and more practice which technology provides. The more we text the better our literary skill improved.
Q6- Name one web tool which can help in development of all four L.S.R.W skills. If possible explains how it works.
I will go with Blogger, which can help in improving all four basic skills. As firstly it helps to write as our own. We think a lot and then we write or type and made digital diary of events. For further reading we also prefer to read someone's else blogs. In blogs we can embed video also, in this way we can improve our listening skill too. Speaking is most important and it is obvious that before writing anything we speak a lot with our ownself, during watching videos also we do the same. In this way Blogger helps a lot in improving all four basic skills.
