Linguistic relativity

When instructing Emergent Bilinguals, we talked about how challenging academic work that promotes deep disciplinary knowledge and encourage higher level thinking is the key to success. Having these emerging bilinguals practice complex thinking, helps them learn deeper about the information and encode the details they are taught. Social justice refers to recognizing and acting upon the potential we have for making positive changes, something teachers do every day. One way teachers can be…

In class on Wednesday, we went further with our discussion on language. We talked about how different languages have different rules and what these rules mean to the language as a whole. I am currently taking Spanish for the first time ever (I took sign language in high school for my language requirement) and of course in that class we are learning about the different rules and so on. On Wednesday morning, my professor asked a student who goes to North Central who is from Nicaragua to come talk…

I struggle with writing papers. I do not enjoy writing papers. I have a difficult time “responding” to the prompt. I dislike writing papers because I believe my writing is weak. I have trouble addressing my audience when writing. I also struggle to find a direction in which my paper should lead. When I write papers, I attempt to focus on the main points of the prompt, but then I believe my paper lacks in other important areas. There are many different techniques when it comes to writing an essay…

Sometimes you are assigned to read articles for homework and they actually turn out to be helpful for you. Thats exactly what happened to me when I was assigned to read “Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott, which caught my attention from its title. I wondered why is it called “shitty.” Anne Lamott explained how important it is to write shitty drafts before your writing becomes better. I thought to myself, I usually get B’s and C’s on my essays and Lamott says to become a good writer you must…

a number of times in English classes, but no one ever called them that. They were always just prefixes, suffixes or root words. It wasn’t until almost too late before my first linguistics midterm that I clued in to how root words and suffixes translated into linguistic…

Structuralism can be described as a critical movement of literature that studies how elements of a text can be understood more efficiently by examining its relationship to the overall composition of a text. Ferdinand de Saussure, the “father of modern linguistics” (845) is a prominent critic in the Structuralism movement. The understanding of Saussure’s theory in Structuralism will be examined using mathematical examples and applied to interpret The Great Gatsby. Saussure’s theory of literature…

Discourse/s Gee (1990) defined Discourse as a “socially accepted association among ways of using language, of thinking, feeling, believing, valuing, and of acting that can be used to identify oneself…of a socially meaningful group…” (Gee, 1990, p. 143, as cited in McCarthy, 2016). Language Register It is important that children learn what Language Register and take advantage as “Competent oral communication requires being able to use a variety of language registers and being able to choose…

several studies, they found a correlational relationship with decoding and linguistic comprehension to reading comprehension, and summarized that decoding and linguistic comprehension are unrelated; however, both related to reading comprehension. During the early grades correlation between decoding and reading comprehension is stronger than linguistic comprehension, but in the later grades the relationship between linguistic comprehension and reading comprehension becomes stronger. The SVR has…

Help children to make listening and learning language easier for them by following some simple guidelines:  Position yourself face to face as you play and talk with them. This makes it easier for them to see when you are talking, and to shift their attention back and forth between their activity and your face. Being able to see your face also allows the child to use your facial expressions and lip patterns to help them understand your words.  Make sure you have the child’s attention each time…

This study examines discursive features in a narrative of a convicted rape offender. In particular, this study focus on the ways in which the rapist, Nathan constructs his version of an account of the rape incident. The data for the analysis was extracted from the transcripts of group therapy sessions in a prison-based Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) in Britain between 1995 and 1996. The analysis suggested that his discourse is built on two main practical ideologies in recasting his…