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Memes and GIFs - new ways of communicating

We live in a different time where international exchange of  cultures and ideas are inherent and important.  Memes are a form of cultural ideas and symbols that can readily be transmitted widely from one mind to another.  Memes are popular due to its ease of consumption with most only consisting of a picture outlined with minimal texts plus they are funny and usually  refer to a particular familiar subject making it easily shareable.

Memes can also be used in a professional setting by way of marketing a certain product.  Memes are very easy to create and easy to consume, much more cost-efficient and more effective than something like writing a blog.  Also Memes are very relevant to  social networking, you can share the company image or photo memes through your Facebook page.  

A GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) file is a graphic image on a webpage that moves. They contain a single set of images that are presented in a specified order, resulting in the illusion of movement similar to a video but with a lack of sound.  GIFs are often used as bite-sized entertainment clips, ads, replies, or comments in online conversations.  

GIFs also can be utilized in a professional setting.  For example, GIFs can enhance product illustrations that will help the customer see the product in a different potentially better manner. GIFs are also a good way to provide visual instructions in lieu of only videos because it is sometimes easier to understand if the video is broken down into shorter clips pertaining to each step. Memes and GIFs have the ability to make your social accounts more “alive” rather than just boring text discussions.  The use and memes and GIFs can lead to a more positive impacts in your communication, but like any other posts, we still have to be careful with the content.

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Assignment week 5

Teaching language

After exploring a few language-learning theories there are a few that I would like to use when teaching my own lessons. The ones that I would like to use are the immersion method, the communicative method and the direct method. Those three method each cover something which I think is important when learning a foreign language.

In my classes I would start using the immersion method, meaning that I would give the students a lot of input (reading and listening). I would do this so the students can get comfortable with the language before using it themselves. Also by giving the students a lot of input they will start to notice grammar patterns and collocations. People always say you learn a language quicker when they live in the country that uses that language, that is because they are immersed by the language. This is something that this method tries to recreate.

When the students have become comfortable with the language I would try to teach using a combination of the direct method and the communicative method. Both of these methods focus on speaking and communication, rather than grammar rules. Most of the vocabulary will be taught through speaking and objects or ideas, I will try to do this, because I believe that by using this method the vocabulary will be remembered more easily. Also instead of memorising set phrases they will learn to speak in unrehearsed situations, so the students can actually communicate using the foreign language outside of school as well. Grammar will be taught, but only when necessary, because I believe that making yourself understandable is more important than the correctness of the grammar structures.

I know that I probably won’t get to try using these teaching methods, because most methods used at schools contain a lot of grammar and set phrases, but if I ever get the chance I would definitely like to try it.