Monday, 26 March 2012
Third week
That week (the third one), we discussed the first two chapters of the book "Decline and Fall",that Paul Pennyfeather was expelled from Oxford University and then was hired, by Dr. Fagan, as a teacher at Llanabba Castle School in Wales. Also that the author, Evelyn Waugh, to wrote this book, was motivated on his personal teaching experience.
Also in class, we read some texts in the class book about the emergentist perspective, and "The language instinct" of Steven Pinker; that is about that language is a complex, specialized skill, which develops in the child spontaneously, and that language is a magnificent ability unique to Homo sapiens among living species.
Juan Pablo Cortés
Monday, 19 March 2012
Second Week
Last week we started to prepare a debate of: "Humans are born with an ability to create language" vs "Language is a learned construct like the rules governing a sport".
The topic of my group was "Humans are born with an ability to create language". I worked in class with Barrios, Valencia, Abusleme and Sanfuentes searching information in the class book and from internet to prepare our arguments.
Also, in class, we talked about the book we have to read: "Decline and Fall". The teacher wrote in the whiteboard about the author Arthur Evelyn St John Waugh, and of his time that influences him when he wrote the book (before de II World War).
I liked to do the debate because I practiced my English pronunciation.
Juan Pablo Cortés
The topic of my group was "Humans are born with an ability to create language". I worked in class with Barrios, Valencia, Abusleme and Sanfuentes searching information in the class book and from internet to prepare our arguments.
Also, in class, we talked about the book we have to read: "Decline and Fall". The teacher wrote in the whiteboard about the author Arthur Evelyn St John Waugh, and of his time that influences him when he wrote the book (before de II World War).
I liked to do the debate because I practiced my English pronunciation.
Juan Pablo Cortés
Monday, 12 March 2012
First week
In class, we talked and read about language, language is a system of vocal signs through which humans communicate. We read about Duality of patterning;of phonemes (the smallest contrastive unit in the sound system of a language), and morphemes (the smallest meaningful unit in language).
Also, we said that humans have many ways to communicate, they can communicate speaking or doing gestures (body language); but body language is not necessarily language, but it is still a way of communication. Another thing we have seen, is the way that children communicate in their development.
Finally, in the last class, we started to prepare a debate of: "Humans are born with an ability to create language" vs "Language is a learned construct like the rules governing a sport".
This week, I learned new things, like the duality of patterning, the phoneme and morphemes. Also, I like that class is always a conversation between the teacher and students, since all can comment on the subject under discussion.
Juan Pablo Cortes
Also, we said that humans have many ways to communicate, they can communicate speaking or doing gestures (body language); but body language is not necessarily language, but it is still a way of communication. Another thing we have seen, is the way that children communicate in their development.
Finally, in the last class, we started to prepare a debate of: "Humans are born with an ability to create language" vs "Language is a learned construct like the rules governing a sport".
This week, I learned new things, like the duality of patterning, the phoneme and morphemes. Also, I like that class is always a conversation between the teacher and students, since all can comment on the subject under discussion.
Juan Pablo Cortes
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