In case you missed the British Council Seminar,you will find this talk fascinating. There are plenty more clips on Youtube... Feel free to discuss in the forum and reflect on it from an ESOL/Literacy teacher's perspective.
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'To Google' has become a universally understood verb and many countries are developing their own internet slang. But is the web changing language and is everyone up to speed?
As computer-mediated-communication (CMC) becomes a more and more dominant medium in the 21st Century what impact is this having on language and literacy teaching, learning development? Will it have an effect on what is regarded as 'comprehensible input' and how might it shape literacy events and practices? Do you think this causes the older generations more problems as the digital immigrants, as opposed to younger generations who are the digital natives? Forum please...
As computer-mediated-communication (CMC) becomes a more and more dominant medium in the 21st Century what impact is this having on language and literacy teaching, learning development? Will it have an effect on what is regarded as 'comprehensible input' and how might it shape literacy events and practices? Do you think this causes the older generations more problems as the digital immigrants, as opposed to younger generations who are the digital natives? Forum please...
The internet slang term "LOL" (laughing out loud) has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, to the mild dismay of language purists. But where did the term originate? And is it really a threat to our lexicon? "OMG! LOL's in the OED. LMAO!" If you find the above string of letters utterly unintelligible, you are clearly an internet "noob". Golly gosh! The popular initialism LOL (laughing out loud) has been inducted into the canon of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary. Blimey! What is going on? The OED defines LOL as an interjection "used chiefly in electronic communications... to draw attention to a joke or humorous statement, or to express amusement". It is both "LOL" where all the letters are pronounced separately, but also commonly "lol" where it is pronounced as a word.
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