Introduction to Linguistics

In the first assignment, we create a digital dictionary of linguistics terms that helps us to understand in a better way the linguistics world. In this task, I learned different terms that help me to comprehend better and give me the opportunity to have knowledge about linguistics. https://drive.google.com/file/d/19jJ95xYdotWlZazniFLYDdPqAjwihX0g/view?usp=sharing

The topic was about language universals. First, we answered what is language universals, and which are they? I learned that language universals is when the languages share similar characteristics or have characteristics in common. 

We made a jigsaw that was about the different fields that linguistics studies as phonology, phonetics, syntax, morphology, semantics and pragmatic. This was a different way to introduce a class, I think that called our attention and motivated us to do a great job.  

We made a forum about the Greatest Period in the History of the English Language. Where we analyzed and discussed these questions:  Some historians say that the English language grew up the most during the Modern English period. Do you agree? From what period did the English language receive the most visible influence to become what it is nowadays? Here an image of my answers and comments of my classmates: Here are images of my comments to my classmate´s answers: This task allows us to share our ideas about what we believed that the  English Language grew up most during a period. Also, it created in each student a way to defend their point of view, which is critical thinking.

Roleplay First, we made groups where each one had to represent through a roleplay one period of the English Language. The rest of the class had to figure out what was the period that presented. Timeline Using Tiki Toki, we created an innovative and creative timeline with different main aspects of the period. This helpful tool gave us another way to learn the history of the English Language and how to manage this new technology. https://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/1372585/Modern-English-Period/ Forum Later, each student has to write a reflection about a period of the English Language that did not work in previous tasks, so I have to write a reflection about the Old English, based on the material provided in the Tiki Toki of our classmates.  Through the different tasks, I learned about important events in the development of the English Language, like the Old Norse language, the strong influence of Shakespear, the printing press, among others facili...

In this topic, we read a material provided for the professor, in groups we answered the questions that were in the document and finally, we made a debate in the class where we share information and ideas about language acquisition and development. For me, Language acquisition is the process when human recognized and use a language, and Language development is a process when the children understand and communicate a language.