E- portfolio Linguistic

SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE
STUDENT´S NAME:
MARINA DEL CARMEN DÍAZ CRUZ.
CAREER:
BACHELOR DEGREE IN ENGLISH
SUBJECT:
LINGUISTIC OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
TEACHER´S NAME:
LIC. JAVIER ANDRADE
DATE: MARCH 10 TH , 2016
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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................ 3
PERSONAL STATEMENT .................................................................... 5
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE .................................................................... 6
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES ........................................................ 7
CONCLUSION .................................................................................... 9
CONTENT (ACTIVITIES)
WHAT IS A LANGUAGE? ................................................................... 10
LINGUISTIC AS A WINDOW TO ANDERTANDING .............................. 12
THE BRAIN ........................................................................................ 13
POSTERS OF THE INTERVIEW ............................................................ 14
LANGUAGE IN CENTRAL IN HUMAN LIFE .......................................... 19
TASKS ............................................................................................... 20
REFLECTIVE QUESTION ..................................................................... 29
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INTRODUCTION
The elaboration of this portfolio has the objective of show the knowledge
acquired during this period. It consist in the develop of different kind of
linguistic activities about the topics that had studied during the first period in
the subject of Linguistic of the English language.
At the beginning of the content I give the definition of language through
images that represent a language like an ability to acquire and use complex
systems of communication, particularly to do so, and a language is any
specific example of such a system. The scientific study a language is called
linguistic.
Furthermore are include all the task developed during this period such as:
paragraph about animal vs human communication, linguistic as a window to
understand the brain by Steve Pinker, mind map about morphology, types of
phrases and exercises about morphology.
Beside I wrote a personal statement of myself- reflective learning stage that
is a brief description of my experience in the first period class in linguistic
subject and how has changed me and helped to grow. I describe my overall
experience discussing my strengths and weaknesses in my learning process
and also I share my future plans in order to improve my linguistic skills.
Finally I respond to reflective question about the learning process in order to
think about what I did during this period and if what I did is good for improve
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my English skills or need change the way in what I am and also about which
activities helped me learned the most and
things that the teacher could have done differently to help my lesson easier.
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PERSONAL STATEMENT
Through myself reflective essay I going to describe my personal experience in
the linguistic class during the past period in which I learned a lot of things
related with interesting topics such as: what is a language, animal vs human
communication, sounds and suprasegmental; phone, phoneme and
allophones, parts of speech; etc. I going to mention how this experience
changed my attitude and actions or thighs that I would like do differently if
given a second change. Specific details, anecdotes and strengths in order to
learn the content giving in class.
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PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
I started the course on Monday 18th with a lot of spectations and goals.
I was really interested to know about what contents we will develop but one
of the most interesting experience was in the first week because the group
was so small. For that reason I had the opportunity to practice English in a
free way because I was not nervous neither worried in make mistakes also
because the teacher was very friendly giving the class and clarifying what
someone did not understand.
Beside I did not like when the group increase because would be a reason or
obstacle to practice the speaking.
The first short presentation was not interesting for I studied a lot and was
prepared to class in order to answer any question related with the topics but
I did not understand what the teacher asked me and answered in a different
way, It was so frustrated for me, in the other hand I felt a little bit happy
because although did not answer correctly I knew the correct answer.
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
There are a lot activities that I had to do in order to learn and obtain good
grades. I tried to do my best since the beginning of the period but it was no
easy because I had a lot of things to do in other subjects and was kind of
complicated organized my time. I am sure that when I did my best the results
were excellent, for example, I always did my homework in time that why I
have completed it and checked by the teacher. Another important thing that
I did in the correct way are: when I gave opinions in class and make mistakes,
after finishing I looked for the correct answer. if I did not understand
something in the class asked to the teacher for clarification or asked to one
of my classmates who I consider that had understood the explanation of the
teacher.
In the other hand, I know that is necessary change some aspects of my
attitude as a student and some areas that I need to work for instance: go
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prepared in attitude to class, try to study the subject every day in order to
remember each detail explained in class, look for technical vocabulary that is
used in linguistic class; improve my English skills in a general way.
This experience has change my attitude as a student and the way in which i
work in group because now I am more responsible, organized and interested
in doing my best to obtain the best grades. I am more prepared for work in
group and give my opinion without care so much about mistake like before.
My classmates had an important role in my learning process because they
pushed me and gave me clear explanation about complicated points in some
topics that I did not understand or look for together.
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CONCLUSION
This experiences affected me in a positive way because although was not
easy I make a big progress, specifically in knowledge about linguistic and
changed some ways in which I thought referring with communication and
human and animals and the form in which new words can be formed.
Finally one think that I consider that is the most important is that base on
what I learned in this experience I am more prepared for the future and my
spectating are really differents. I have some plans to use what I learned from
this experience in the future. For example I would like to talk about the
difference between animal vs human communication or how the words are
formed because I consider this kind of information will be useful for other in
any aspect of their life: such as: in future classes, jobs, relationship or simply
for person who love learning.
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CONTENT (ACTIVITIES)
WHAT IS A LANGUAGE?
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LINGUISTIC AS A WINDOW TO ANDERTANDING
THE BRAIN
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POSTERS OF THE INTERVIEW
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LANGUAGE IN CENTRAL IN HUMAN LIFE
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TASKS
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REFLECTIVE QUESTION
WHAT DID YOU LEARN DURING THIS PERIOD?
During this period I learned a lot of things about linguistic. Firs table I learned what
a language is . There are a lot of theories about creatures that can talk. I think
those creatures are capable of communicating, certainly with other members of
their own species.
Beside I looked at some special properties of human language for
Instance:
Displacement: property of human to refer o past and future time.
Arbitrariness: the relationship between linguistic signs and object in the world.
Productivity: how we form new Words.
Cultural transmission: a language is passed on front one generation to next.
Duality: how we can use sounds to create new words double articulation).
Then review a number of experiments in communication involving human and
animals, such as: talking to animals and Chimpanzees and language in which the
standard explanation is that the animals produces a particular behavior in response
to a particular sound- stimulus or noise, but does not actually “understand” what
the Word mean.
Furthermore I learned the consonant and vowels and vowels features according
the place and manner of articulation or high, middle or low; front, central or back n
vowels, also if those are rounded or unrounded.
Phonemes, syllables and phonological processes.
Allophones: variation of sounds.
A phone: a unit of speech sound.
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Minimal pairs: pair of words that vary in only one sound.
Phoneme: variation of a phoneme.
There are many types of words formation.
Etymology: study of the origin and history of a word.
Coinage: invention on totally new terms.
Borrowing: taking over a word from other language.
Conversion: a change in the function of a word.
Backformation: a word of one type (usually a noun) is reduced to form a word of
another type (usually a verb)
Compounding: joining of two separate words to produce a single form.
Acronyms: new words formed front the initial letters of a set of other words which
the pronunciation consist of saying each separate letter.
Blending: the combination of two separate words to produce a single new term.
Clipping: this occur when a word or more than one syllable is reduce to a shorter
form.
Finally I learned about the par of speech and morphology that is a branch of
linguistic that are divided into morphemes ( free morphemes and bound
morphemes).
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2. DID YOU GIVE YOUR BEST EFFORT ON THIS E- PORTFOLIO PROYECT?
WHY?
Yes because I spent all the time that I consider necessary in order to do everything
in the best way.
3. DID THIS PORTFOLIO ACTIVITY HELP YOU LEARN MORE THAN OTHERS
WE HAVE DONE? WHY?
Yes because It make me remember each content since the beginning of the
semester. I included all the activities developed during this period
4.DID YOU COME TO CLASS PREPARED TO LEARN (IN BOTH YOUR
ATTITUDE AND WITH ALL YOUR SUPPLIES?
I all the time went prepare with my supplies to class but not with my attitude
because sometime I felt worry If did not understand the previous class and also
about activities of other subject.
5. IF YOU COULD DO THIS ASSIGNMENT OVER, WHAT WOULD YOU DO
DIFFERENTLY?
I would like organized my time in a better way I mean star to create my E- portfolio
since I have complete the first activity in order to have the time for care each detail.
6.WHAT CLASS ACTIVITIES OR ASSIGNMENTS HELP YOU LEARN THE
MOST?
This portfolio because is a way to make a feedback in my mind about what I
learned during this period in order to complete activities.
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7. WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE THE THEACHER COULD HAVE DONE
DIFFERENTLY TO HELP YOU LEARN THE LESSONS EASIER?
I think than if the teacher give us the Power Point Presentation per each topic
before or after class and provide a list of topic per each period, the earning process
was being more easy.
8.WHAT IS ONE THING THE TEACHER DID DURING CLASS THAT YOU
REALLY LIKED?
The thing that I liked the most during this period was in the first day of class
because the teacher pushed and motived us to practices English in any way. He
looked very interesting in our learning process giving confidence to speak English
although we made mistakes.
9.HOW CAN YOU PROVE TO THE TEACHER THAT YOU MASTER THE
CONTENTS FROM THE FIRST PERIOD?
I will can paraphrase the contents during this period or make a summary in my own
words about the topic studied in class.
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