Interaction with Dr. Javed Khan

"Teaching and Learning" are  two sides of one coin. Teacher need an object to teach like Students and similarly Students need an object to gain knowledge like teacher. One can not exist without another. Teaching and learning happening in the classroom to make human-being. We can also say that teaching learning  interchanging process of knowledge.

So, we have three days interaction with ELT specialist Dr. Javed Hussain Khan in which we had many points related ELT paper like:

What is initiation? Why do we need initiation.

What is ELT

Function of ELT in Higher Education and at School level.

ELT and its concerns.

various purposes of ELT and so on.

  As we all know that in the Era of Information and Communication, one should learn the language which is much used in communication. So, English language is link language for people to connect and communicate with the world. Hence, English language teaching is much needed to be acquire. Now the following points are to give our answer to given task by sir.

1. Key concept on ELT discussed in the class:

As above mentioned that English language is widely using in the world, in every interdisciplinary like Commerce, science, Arts, Medical, Engineering etc. About the concept, sir talked about ELT and its various manifestation in which sir explained various purposes for teaching English as follow:

• TENI - Teaching English as native Language.
• EFL - English as Foreign language.
• ESP - English for specific purpose.
• ESL -  English as second language.
• EAP - English for academic purpose.
• Linguistic.
• Semiotics.
• Grammar.
• Phonotics
• Graphology
• Morphology
• Etymology

From these points sir gave us the concept about the function of the English language in various field. especially, English for specific purpose and English for academic purpose in which sir talked about the language that language is a social institution, it is a product of culture. So, through the language we can understand cultural dimension.

2) Core Knowledge discussed in class:

• English for academic purpose Liz hamp Lyon.
• Assessment and evaluation system.
• English for literary purpose.(Language of Drama, Novel and Poetry)

The core knowledge of interaction as above mentioned purposes, one is English for academic purpose and second is English for specific purpose, assessment and evaluation and English for literary purpose. These types are interrelated with each other. The arguments of Liz-Hamp Lyon about the English for academic purpose, in which he talked about the examination system which emphasize on only reading skill and writing skill and also he said that EAP is focus on teaching English language like Grammar, semiotic, semantic etc.

3) Comment on Teaching style/Communication/ language/presentation.

We can say that Javed sir is veteran teacher of ELT, so no doubt in teaching style. His fluency, perfect pronounciation and eye contact make live class. We can say that learning with fun. Before the session, he already told us that I am not going to take lectures but I'm here for interaction, and communication is the first needy aspect in teaching learning, therefore one have to master in communication skill because without communicative power, classroom's atmosphere would be boring. Furthermore, we came to know about sir's mastery in language when he shared his experience about the United kingdom where he learnt many things related language and also got good percentage in that language coarse and also we realize his language power during interaction. If we talk about the language of Javed sir then indeed, his level is much higher than the students. About presentation, I think there was little bit different in oral and ppt. PPT was full of content, so sir had evaded many slide but he done very good presentation with oral communication.

4) My Learning experience:

As per my opinion, those three days session was highly intellectual and very fruitful, because I have learnt many new thing about the English language teaching, and also learnt about language structures like Etymology, phonetics. There are many words that I used to speak in my daily life but never pronounce proper way like "Thought" sound start with "F", "There" sound with "Der". And yes, I learnt Morpholgy first time from sir. So, I can say that those three day were not enough to learn proper language but If we attend daily lecture then we can get mastery in English language.

5) How is it going to be helpful to you as students in exam and in life as teacher or any profession or human being.

 For student these lecture were very beneficial because sir covered up every aspects of ELT and we can write in exam  aabout the English Language teaching with the help of variopus examples given by sir, it will be very beneficial for students and also for teacher. Javed sir has told us that if teacher not acquire or has no mastery in English language teaching then what about the students who become a teacher in future of nation. Moreover, for profession also it help much because English for specific purpose used in various fields like Medical, science, commerce, etc. And for normal people also English language is important for communication with the world. So, For everyone ELT is very important to learn and acquire.