Monthly Archives: June 2024

My Language III self-assesment

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Hiii

Another semester is gone and it felt very short. This semester I learned new things but that does not take away the fact that it was a little more difficult (I consider it very difficult), I was able to learn not only academically, but personally and socially as well.

This semester was a little more difficult for me because I didn’t give it my all and because my spirits dropped a little, but I was able to cope with it and I didn’t let it get to me, I learned from mistakes and I was able to continue (which I find to be my personal growth).

Giving Feedback to Language I Peers:

One of the challenges this semester was giving feedback to the Language 1 students, it was a little difficult because I didn’t know if I was being too “rude” or if I was doing it right, or if the person I was giving feedback to would feel good or bad, what helped me was writing on a piece of paper and thus changing some words to improve the feedback, but I managed it (according to me), so I feel a little better giving feedback to those in Language 1, I have confidence and thanks to I do that well, I think hahah.

Writting Task: Summarizing “Shipping Containers”

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This story takes place in 1956, where Malcolm McLean had an idea about his business. When he started his business everything was good, but as the days went by he saw that the industry was a little slow, so his idea to improve his business was simple, just put products inside a container, which would be moved between trucks or ships. This worked during the 70s and 80s, where these containers became popular. Sadly this idea diminished some jobs, as companies opened factories in Asia for low cost convenience. Instead, containers have made the way of shipping more efficient.

Audio Upload 19 “The first year of life”

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A newborn baby can see, hear and feel. By the age of five, a child can talk, ride a bike and invent imaginary friends. How does this development happen? We don’t understand the way language, thinking and planning develop very well. Now scientists are using new technology to ‘see’ into children’s brains. And they are discovering new information about the way a baby’s brain develops. A study in 2010 showed that the experiences a child has in their first few years affect the development of the brain. It showed that children who received more attention often had higher IQs. The brain of a newborn baby has nearly a hundred billion neurons. This is the same number as an adult’s brain. As they grow, a baby receives information through the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. This information creates connections between different parts of the brain. At the age of three, there are a hundred trillion connections. One experiment looked at images of babies’ brains while they were listening to different sounds. The sounds were in different sequences. For example, one sequence was mu-ba-ba. This is the pattern ‘A-B-B’. Another sequence was mu-ba-ge. This is the pattern ‘A-B-C’. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during ‘A-B-B’ patterns. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. This experiment is interesting because sequences of words are important to grammar and meaning. Compare two sentences with the same words in a different order: ‘John killed the bear’ is very different from ‘The bear killed John.’ So babies are starting to learn grammatical rules from the beginning of life. Researchers also know that babies need to hear a lot of language in order to understand grammar rules. But there is a big difference between listening to television, audio books or the internet, and interacting with people. One study compared two groups of nine-month-old American babies. One group watched videos of Mandarin Chinese sounds. In the other group, people spoke the same sounds to the babies. The test results showed that the second group could recognise different sounds, however the first group learned nothing. The scientist, Patricia Kuhl, said this result was very surprising. It suggests that social experience is essential to successful brain development in babies