Language Reflection

Language impacts the daily lives of members of any race, creed, and region of the world. Language helps express our feelings, desires, and queries to the world around us. Words, gestures and tone are utilized in union to portray a broad spectrum of emotion. The unique and diverse methods human beings can use to communicate through written and spoken language is a large part of what allows to harness our innate ability to form lasting bonds with one another. “Language is a system of commination

Language strongly influences our perception of the world. I found that even only taking high school French really helped me to see other languages and cultures in a new light. We had an exchange with a school in a small town in Quebec, and being able to somewhat speak and understand another language helped me to see that the same messages, ideas, and thoughts are communicated, regardless of language. It’s not that I though Quebecois didn’t ever tell jokes, I had just never thought about it. Learning

comfortable enough to take risks with their language during this activity. Thus, I chose to conduct the LEA here, where they feel most comfortable and to make this activity student centered. As I recorded the students language in verbatim, I wanted to make sure that both students were participating in the discussion and were building on each others thoughts and ideas which is related to the language objective. To identify students’ individual language contributions I wrote the first letters of their

in a area. There is more agriculture there will be more Hispanics. I never realized how many different ways you can be taught a language. In the special topics video learning a different language started with the translation method. The translation method focus on the number of words. The 1800s Latins, Greeks, and French focused more on the writing and reading of language rather than speaking. Along the same time the direct method was introduced but never officially caught on. Direct method has a

was done back at Wendell Johnson. We met with Jihan and the teacher aides to discuss what we thought was working well in their classroom, and our suggestions to further facilitate language development. Since the last reflection, our goal was to come up with strategies the teachers could use to continue to promote language development for their children. Me and my other group members tried to attain this goal by providing handouts and examples of strategies that we thought would be helpful for the teachers

attended this portion of the Play Project together to give a presentation about a certain language topic, and to meet the teachers and teacher aides and learn about some of the children they had concerns about. At the initial meeting with the teachers at Pheasant Ridge, Jihan and the aides expressed concern for a few kids in their classroom. Their concerns were about some of the children not expressing/producing language. For example, some of the children do not talk much or at all during their daily activities

information covered this week was interesting and useful for me as an educator. The understanding of language development is highly critical for developing English among learners without any doubt. As an educator it is extremely important to be informed and familiar with the extensive process of learning proficient English for non-native students. The points that will be discussed in this synthesis are: Language Development, Biological development, technology in the classroom, and assessing student’s learning

expressive language development. Ahmed is originally from the Sudan and speaks Arabic as his primary language. He has an older sister that is in kindergarten. Pheasant Ridge is Ahmed’s first experience in a childcare setting and Jihan said that he was very quiet when he first started attending. She said that this was probably his silent period, which I agree with her that it sounds like he was adjusting to the new environment, observing his surroundings, and absorbing the English language input from

in love with pragmatics and semantics. Along with that, I found a passion for sociolinguistics. There are two classes in particular that have sparked my interest. The first was a class about women and language. Though it was titled women, it was really about the relationship between gender and language. We talked about linguistic stereotypes based on a person's gender and how they are

optimizing the learning conditions, and thereby facilitating learners’ ongoing language attainment, whether teachers are aware of implementing timely, effective, and systematic interventions, I argue, plays an integral role. Even the seemingly inconspicuous marking codes may profoundly affect learners’ uptake rate. In brief, my research interest concerns the influence of corrective feedback on the advancement of second language learners’ productive skills. Inspired by Dr. Ronald H. Heck, I always attempt