Evolutionary linguistics

In “The Last Speakers” Harrison explains that hotspots are places that have linguistic diversity, the greatest language endangerment, and the least studied languages. Australia is one place with a significant amount of hotspots. In a cave in Australia, Harrison met with Charlie Mangulda, the last speaker of Amurdag. Amurdag is a language…

proved to be exceedingly beneficial. Children are born with the innate ability to become multilingual and have a desire to communicate with the world. Some time, some where during one’s lifetime, that craving is lost. More and more we develop a linguistic complacency and we are willing to declare lingual authority in order to communicate with the world. In commanding the cooperation with the world, English would be forced down the throats and into the mouths of unwilling participants. There is…

However, this raises a question, as many of the previous studies indicated that correction was disadvantageous; Truscott and Magilow (1999) both stated that error correction harmed, rather than helped students in their learning. Truscott, in his original paper, dedicated an entire section to the harm error correction caused. He was particularly vocal that it caused stress and anxiety, and demotivated students. He found that corrected students (in writing) wrote no better than uncorrected…

The writing process is the process of prewriting,drafting,revising, and editing. Before writing an essay, one must brainstorm ideas and write an outline to organize those ideas. Outlining will frame the main ideas and supportive examples for the essay. After brainstorming, one will begin drafting the rough draft where they can write write down ideas or thoughts that immediately come to mind. Then after writing the rough draft, one will revise and rewrite it. To revise is to look back on the…

Languages are going extinct. According to the Huffington Post language is dying out faster than any other language. At a rate of one tongue every two weeks. That is faster than animal species are dying out (Underwood). People might say that is good that the smaller languages are dying out because no really spoke them anyway. The thing is that, it is really not good. Language gives us insight into the minds of the people who spoke it and tells us more about the past. As language gets more unified…

In our educational experience, there are going to be pros and cons. We also have similarities and differences with others, but that doesn’t make our education any better than theirs. What truly matter is that you have gotten some sort of education and strived to continue. In “ I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose showing ruff times he had in school. Also, “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” by Richard Rodriguez that was spoken in a different time period of history where it was hard for some…

With a smartphone – a person holds the knowledge of the world in one hand. The internet overflows with information and is valuable when exploring something new. However, regulating such a vast ocean of information is a near impossible task, and this blurs the line between fact and fiction. Wikipedia allows anyone to openly contribute to any subject, which in turn can lead to a lack of, or worse yet, false information. The validity and organization of an article is of supreme importance on…

Introduction Maine’s dialects are vividly depicted the very characteristics of Maine’s country folks that some people have not heard before. Many words are no longer used in today as much as in the past except for some old ancient folks live in rural areas. However, there are some words and phrases that do blend in today’s society to create the dialects that are more flexible, humor, and wisdom of the people speaking it. Syntactically, the word’s orders and idioms are sounded more humor and…

affect and cognitive variables; the role of the broader social context and linguistic environment as sources of negative and positive evidence and of opportunities for input, output, and interaction (Long, Granena, & Yilmaz, 2016). In addition priority and interest, areas have also included implicit and explicit knowledge; incidental and intentional learning; processes and sequences in interlanguage development; and cross-linguistic influence…

The Four Resource model was created by Freebody and Luke in the 1990s as previous literacy models were essential, but not sufficient. Previous approaches include the skills approach, whole language approach and genre approach (Anstey, 2002). The Four Resource model assists with the development of the ability to analyse tasks, solve problems, identify resources and self monitor which are essential to being a competent reader (Anstey, 2002). This model aims for balanced content for the development…