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Watching television can be useful for learning English in some ways but has limitations. It allows learning of new vocabulary and idioms through exposure to informal dialogues. This helps improve pronunciation and provides cultural context of English speaking societies. However, television is not good for learning formal or academic English as most content uses informal speech. While informal English can be gained, television does not permit becoming proficient in formal or academic contexts where strict grammar and formality is required.
Watching television can be useful for learning English in some ways but has limitations. It allows learning of new vocabulary and idioms through exposure to informal dialogues. This helps improve pronunciation and provides cultural context of English speaking societies. However, television is not good for learning formal or academic English as most content uses informal speech. While informal English can be gained, television does not permit becoming proficient in formal or academic contexts where strict grammar and formality is required.
Watching television can be useful for learning English in some ways but has limitations. It allows learning of new vocabulary and idioms through exposure to informal dialogues. This helps improve pronunciation and provides cultural context of English speaking societies. However, television is not good for learning formal or academic English as most content uses informal speech. While informal English can be gained, television does not permit becoming proficient in formal or academic contexts where strict grammar and formality is required.
Watching television has been an excellent way of entertainment since 1927,
when the BBC in London transmitted the first television show. From 1927 until the present time, television has become a mass media communication, which allowed us to have cultural interchange. Moreover, English has turned into an international language because people often use English on business, news and leisure activities. Due to this, t elevision is useful to learn English, when someone wants to improve his/her pronunciation and to get new vocabulary. On the other hand, it does not help if someone likes to learn an academic or formal use of the language.
When we watch television in English, it lets us to know more about American
and British culture and society. For instance, there is big amount of channels that show us how the British and American style way is: how people speak, how people enjoy and how people live. Besides, on the television we can listen to idiomatical expressions, which we can use in our daily speeches and their meaning usually depend on the context where they are used. In relation to idiomatical expressions, when we watching television we can see and hear informal dialogues, which help us to increase our vocabulary. In fact, while we watch television in English we take a look at fluency an accuracy in informal speeches.
However, Watching television in English does not permit us to become good at
formal and academic speeches, because most of the channels show us an informal speech, and we know there are some channels which transmit news, talk shows political shows and cultural shows that use a formal speech, but that kind of channels are not very popular between young people who prefer musical, movies and entertainment channels. Furthermore, when we are learning English we should be able to have a formal speech, but sometime we combine formal expression with informal one because we have a big influence from mass media means between them, television. As well, when we watch television in English we realize that even English speakers have problems with grammar and pronunciation. Therefore, when a person is learning probably he/she could feel bored listen to much English and he/she start to have problems not only in English but also in his/her own language.
Finally, from television, we can gain knowledge of new vocabulary, idiomatical
expression and daily dialogues, which are related to culture and life style. However, we cannot acquire formal expressions and academic English. As a conclusion, I agree that learning English on television helps us to improve our vocabulary and our fluency and accuracy; even it is not formal or academic English.