This is a blog for Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas participants of
Introduction to Linguistics.
We aim at interaction and comunication within our community.
This is a blog for Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas participants of
Introduction to Linguistics.
We aim at interaction and comunication within our community.
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February 19, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Mariángeles Salazar
Hello everyone
I’m a student of the fifth term at the IPC. I think our English learning process at the Ped is a complete one, we develop the four skills (speaking, writing, listening and reading) in order to internalize the second language adcquisition and understand its grammar, the way it functions and also its social meaning. Although we don’t have the chance to take fully advantage of the English labs (they almost never work) the professors at the department try to develop on us (the students) all the neccessaries communicative competence so we can learn the English language appropriately.
Mariángeles Salazar
February 20, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Sharon Urbina
In mi opinion,Human beings have the innate capacity to acquire languages.Besides, humans are able to interact with other people.
We started to communicate because humans beings had the neccecity to subsist among others.
Children learn by imitation ,by repeating, in many ways,which means that only humans are able to communicate with words,to form sentences,and to come up with ideas.
Linguistics is releted with grammar because in certain way it explains the process of how language changed through time and how the structures were compound. It also explains the main rules about grammar that were stated by the most important representatives of linguistics.
Is not mandatoty to know grammar to be a linguist bacause we can describe a language without knowing much about it.We should have at least have a certain knowledge about but not to be an expert.
A linguist is a person who studies languages and describes what people says in an specific context.
Linguistics is the science that describes languages and explains the objective of this.
February 21, 2007 at 11:27 am02
Luis Gutierrez
In my opinion human beings develop language through the interaction with the social context in which they need to communicate each other their feelings, needs, desires etc.
I also consider that human beings started to communicate in order to subsist, in other words, we created this skill in terms of making life easier, we felt the nessecity of share our social problems. it exists two theories that expalin how we started two communicate which are the behavioristic postion that states that children come to the world without any knowledge and little by little they adopt language through the interaction with people; and the other constructivist which claim that children come into this world with an innate knowledge.
I think both process (repeating and imitation) are possible.Although children as human beings need to express what they feel, they need to apply or begin to learn their languange by repeating and imitation, maybe because they realise that this is the way that the call people’s attention.
linguistic and grammar are realted in terms that grammar involves a set of rules that linguistic tend to describe and organize for its better comprehension.
Linguistics don’t have to be specialist in grammar but I think they need to have a certain knowledge in orden to understand and describe the language even better.
I consider that a linguistic is a person who have attempted to define what language is, but also he/she is concern about the description of language.
to sum up, Linguistic is the science that attempt to find and describe the origin and the porpouse of language.
Gutty
February 21, 2007 at 11:27 am02
Luisana Rosales
My name is Luisana Rosales and i’m also in the fifth term at the IPC. In my opinion the process of language learning at the IPC it’s almost complete. Although we have got the chance to develop the four skills we are born to(reading, writing, listening and speaking), most of us haven’t got the opportunity to expand this knowledge at the fullest; not only because of personal problems but also for the conditions we are studying. We understand it is not mostly our professor’s fault but surely it is not completely ours either.
It is important to notice that the language learning process is given not only by grammar (meaning a set of rules to describe language) but also by the context we are sharing that grammar within our background or previous knowledge.
I think that changing a little bit our studying conditions (i.e new and improve English labs) we can definetely make a progress on our language learning process.
February 21, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Rincon Gabriela
Good Afternoon.
I am Gabriela Rincon.
It is known that the learning process not only depends on the student strategies, time, disponibility but on the teacher and the environment.
Learning English at the pedagogico is a great opportunity but it is also interesting due to the fact that we learn using the four main skills we already know. As nothing is perfect, it is true that there are some facts that affect our learning process, these are in the first case, the book we are working with because although it is really good (grammatically and functionally speaking) it is old fashioned and sometimes students get bored. In answer to this, the department has been proving some books and this gives following students new opportunities to develop their skills in a better and “modern” way. Second we have our labs, we have great computers in some labs but we still need more, so all groups can work without waiting one for the other to finish.
Generally speaking, the environment is excellent, classmates are great and teachers are really good. Now, reffering to teachers it is an excellent chance for us as students to have a native speaker teacher at least two or three days a week what give us practice.
in conclusion, this is, as I said before a great opportunity so we have to take advantage and try not to get back…
Thank you.
February 21, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Sandra Rincon
In my opinion, I think that they develop this skill because they need to exchange ideas, opinions and preferences with other people according to specific context. Also, I think that in human beings there is only one theory to communicate, which contains codes, messages, etc. Moreover, in childhood there is repeating and imitation process in which is accomplished during the first years, and children repeat sounds and words that are sorround of them.
I think linguistics is associated to grammar in the context of each human being because there is a set of rules that lead to the formation of sentences. From my point of view, we should know how is structured the language, also know about its patterns
February 22, 2007 at 11:27 am02
Luis Tequia
Hi! my name is Luis Tequia, I am twenty one years old and I am an English student of the fifth semester at the Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas. In my opinion, the learning process at the IPC could be better than the one we(students) have nowadays. On one hand, there are good teachers that use excelent strategies and do whatever is possible to help students to develop all language skills, but on the other hand, the laboratories, resources and equipment that we have at the university to do the activities to improve these skills are in really bad conditions, and I think that there should be a balance in these two aspects to have a good performance in the language. It is also important to work by ourselves as students because part of our learning process depends on what we do outside the classroom and university.
February 22, 2007 at 11:27 am02
José Freddy Herrera López
Hello everybody
My name is José, a student of the 5th term of English at Pedagógico de Caracas.
In my opinion the process of learning English at the IPC. is very complete may be it is not the best, but when we compare it with other institutes and the others Pedagogies from the same university you can noted the big difference, one of the negative factors that I see here is that English students do not have a space for only English speakers in my opinion this will help students to improve the four skills of the language.
I actually have finished a research about the most difficult skill of English as a foreign Language, and the result show that the perception of both side I mean teachers and student is that one of the most difficult skill to acquire is SPEAKING and in a second position we find LISTENING, and I believe that we are doing our best, when I say “we” it referst to the English Departament in general Teachers and Students… to improve or to have enough opportunities to get these skills.
February 22, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Carla Monarde
Good mornimg Ì’m Carla Monarde I’m in the 5th term of English at the IPC as the others. I think we have learned English getting an acceptable level of improvement in the four skills, despite the fact we haven’t got enough time in laboratory class to practice our speaking, and English program don’t teach us how to write since the first term in order to be used to writing or reading. I think we are good enough although this obstacles. English department should look for solutions that could make students be more prepared from the beginning.
February 23, 2007 at 11:27 am02
Ronny piñero
hello, guys.
Through this years of English studies at the ped, what I’ve found and lived it is certainly a great teaching of the language, which always has given a grate level rate in teachers who are graduated from the IPC; that compare with others institutions the difference can be noted. But I also believe that that can be improved in all ways, by taking more advantages of the resources which were not used as they were suppose to, because of reasons out of students’ reach. That the department doesn’t have to let the time goes by without making the necessary changes to do improvements of what is not current.
As the knowledge grew the needs of transmitted it also did; it means that as human beings are complex subjects in who the knowledge through the time increased demanding different and new language structures or new adapted forms; it was the key for language development in the past, but also nowadays.
There always exits registers of what happened at that time; which probably tell us how we started to communicate; it could be said that the spoken signs were the ones used, but it is not a certainty. Therefore, as a theory which explains and stated how we started to communicate could probably face some cons.
The term “out of nothing” could be one that let apart some others characteristics from one the language comes from, which are the necessities of the children to transmit a message, their intelligence since their very first beginning when they find ways of sending information. It means that, the basis for a language developing are presents, therefore that part in union with the social guidance, as the one which establish the parameters and forms of how the children should perform; is what make them develop a language. Maybe the term “out of nothing” is because they don’t any knowledge of what a language is itself, the one it is accept by society. But as human beings, they already possess what it is needed. Repeating and imitation are forms of learning it that shows the mental disposition to acquire a language, and to produce it.
Yes. In many different ways and perspectives. But this doesn’t mean that it is just focus in grammar; grammar is one of the characteristics which are studied by linguistic.
No, no necessarily; through the process of analyzing a language in a synchronic and descriptive way is what make a linguistic know the grammar of a specific language; this doesn’t intend to deny that both are inextricably tied when that analyzing process has being started or when the principal goal of the linguistic is to get deeper in a language’s grammar.
Study the language in terms, of what it is in its own in a particular point in the time, in order to be able of descriptive it, regarding to its social context and psychological pattern in which is produce; this is what stated to us, its individual site and its social context. Not setting apart the patterns and structures follows by the actual produce language.
Is the language’s science which deals with the actual production of language taking into account the different psychological and social cultural aspects which make it be what actually is, without references to its historical language framework.
February 23, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
saavik espinoza
hello everybody!
In my opinion I think linguistics is important for us as teachers because it helps us to understand how the language works in our human communications;so, my learning process was great because I learnt a lot of things that before I did not know they can form any language, in this case English. I would like to learn more interesting things about this topic, especially morphology because I think it is very interesting to learn how a word can form for working many things and expresing ideas and a completely language.
February 25, 2007 at 11:27 am02
sailet leon
Hi, my name is Sailet Leon, and I am also in the fifth term of english at the ipc,
In my opinion, our learning procces at the ipc haas been very complete, we have had the chance to develope the four skills of language, through different kinds of activities, such as listening by lab activities; writing and reading by reading ad writing I and II, and finally speaking, through all of the subjects we take.
On the other hand, we also have the fails of the programe, like the lack of techology in the department that does not not allow us to take advantage of all the things that technology have to offer us.
The way i see it, all of these fails are going to chage with time, and this way, the process is going to be pleasant for everybody.
thanks
February 26, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Myrsi Sosa
Hello!! My name is Myrsi Sosa. I am in the fifth term of English at The Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas where I becoming and English teacher.
Our learning process at the IPC has been a nice experience since we have developed the four skills a second language learner needs in order to acquire English as a foreign language.
At the Ped we do lots of activities like listening, video activities, writing, reading, speaking… it is very good the way the teachers guide us through our learning process.
We also have some problems in acquiring English due to the old technology in our labs and the update book we use in English, but I think we can work hard to study in better conditions.
Finally, I hope the bad conditions will be improved with time because the IPC has offered us a great opportunity to study what we want!.
February 27, 2007 at 11:27 am02
Yalexda Navarro
Hello I’m Yalexda Navarro I’m in the 5th term of English at the IPC. Ithink that our university has all the resourses taht we need to learn and improve our english, of course most of these resorses aren’t nowsdays or hightec, but it doesn´t care too much because we do all kind of activities to cover the four skills, we do listening, writing, reading, speaking and videos activities. Of course if we have with hightec machines our learning have better, because we are motivate, because learning condiotion was better. I know that teh new students are working with other books, nowsdays books and these is a very important chance beacuse the old ones are borried.
I know that these machine are too expensive but the department can do campain but successful campain to earn the money to buy new machines, and inthat way motivate the students to improve tehir gardes and keep teh lab in good conditions.
February 27, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Raiza Uzcátegui
Hello. My name is Raiza Uzcátegui. I study at the Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador (UPEL), Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas (IPC),fifth term, section 002-B.
I believe that the EFL learning process at UPEL is an effective one because it promotes the gradual and secure development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills through useful instructional tools, attractive and easy ways to present the information and exercises as well as activities to provide practice in the four skill areas (listening activities, pronunciation exercises, reading comprehension, group discussions, role plays, writing assignments, etc). In this process, grammatical explanations are taken into account but teachers also consider essential the use of these grammatical structures in a real context or real-life situations.
February 27, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Luis Gutiérrez
Hello everybody!
My name is Luis Gutiérrez, and as you should know I’m studying English at the Pedagógico de Caracas.
I consider that my English learning process at the I.P.C has been quite good, although I know that my English skills (reading, listening, writing, speaking) have been increased and developed through the last years I also know that is important that this university, the English Department and also the teachers create new strategies and methods that regards the new process of learning English which is necessary to the new generation in terms of motivation and commitment.
July 13, 2007 at 11:27 am07
mary ann
Hello lings. group.
I am finishing the 8th semester of my English carrer. Eventhough, I am a native I have learnt a lot at the Ped. Just a bit of advice you can never know enough, and you are never to old to learn. So guys keep up the good work and keep on blogging.
Bye Maryann
July 13, 2007 at 11:27 pm07
Nahir
Thanks a lot for visiting, MaryAnn and for your recommendations. Very valuable indeed.
Cheers,
Nahir