• Raju Barthakur

  Author

The advent of internet and emergence of social, professional and academic networking
sites has propped up new opportunities to connect and communicate. The Web 2.0 provides
enormous opportunities for teaching in an entertaining, informative and participative manner.
But at the same time, it opens us to a number of concomitant issues ranging from privacy to
systemizing the same in tune with the institutional (infra)structure. It also poses quite a few
questions pertaining to appropriating these platforms for imparting classroom based learning to
the students of the north east and utilizing it in a balanced manner to make learning effective and
voluntary.
The paper presents an overview of some of these platforms used and some others appropriated in
an experimental manner for teaching English to the students of engineering at different levels in
Arunachal Pradesh. Being part of a current research, the observations in the paper are based on
responses of the target group who have a fairly better access to internet and online portals in
both web and mobile modes.

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