Media texts: A study on mediated communication in language classroom

Language learning pedagogy has mainly recognized the learners’ own ways of determining their objectives, choosing ways of achieving them, and evaluating their own progress through conscious reflection. This conscious reflection on language learning can be associated with learning outcomes depend on continued language learning, that to develop proficiency in second language. However, it is only possible in a burden free atmosphere of language learning. But how it is possible to get in a second language classroom which is creating a different atmosphere for its learner. Learning a language is not only dependent on learner factors but also on the linguistic and extra-linguistic factors irrespective of individual differences. There is no doubt that in addition to a variety of gestures, rituals and paralinguistic features, verbal language in the form of media texts remains a main source of cultural transmission for today's generation i.e. techno cool generation and cognitive structures as a cultural pedagogy. What learners learn, how they learn, what the role of social factors in their learning is and how the individual factors form an essential part in their learning; all these are very interesting questions in the field of second language learning. But second language acquisition is a different process from the first language learning, because human beings are genetically prepared for having the full fledged idea of their first language which is innate by nature, but un consciously second language is acquired by them depending upon their various socio-cultural learning situations mediated by media-texts, extended to other screen media, including animated movies, cartoons and several comic strips which is taking place through dialogue and classroom discourses, reflecting the history, cultural values and social practices of children's schools and communities.