This term has come to an end, and learning implies changes.
We have a different perspective regarding Linguistics, language, and language learning.
This term has come to an end, and learning implies changes.
We have a different perspective regarding Linguistics, language, and language learning.
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February 26, 2007 at 11:27 am02
Yalexda Navarro
At the beginning of these semester, I did not have any idea what linguistic means and how important is for second language teachers.
but now I know that linguistic is a tool for student and
teacher to understand the language that we are learning or teaching, because
linguistic not only study the language,linguistic
study everything about language. It is important that
everybody who are studying a second language have to study
linguistics, because it gives us all the aspects about language.
February 26, 2007 at 11:27 am02
Luisana Rosales
At first, i did not know what to expect from this subject. I had no idea about linguistics, language learning and even language, because when somebody begins to study a career related to education and, even more, with English h/she is just at the expectations of what is about to learn.
In my case, i just had a basis in English. I have seen from English 1 up to English 5 and it is at this level that I am noticing what language really is and how it works. I have learned what is the relation between language and the context it is spoken; its relation with our minds, how it is form and many other things. I have definetely learned about language learning and that not every human being is the same, letting them has their own method when it comes to the process of acquiring a language.
I know this subject will help a lot not only as a student to finish my career, but also as the teacher i am turning into to achieve every goal related to the education field.
February 26, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Myrsi Sosa
When I started the term, I was excited about studying linguistics because it is the first real subject relationed with our career. After all this time, I think linguistics is a very important aim in our second language acquisition because it has led us notice that every language is a very complex system and it is not only words human beings use to communicate. Linguistics had taught me that language is a social instrument and the ways humans acquire it. Finally, I must say that linguistics had changed my perspectives about language and language learning and, in my opinion, all second language students and teachers should know a little about linguistics to understand the process in which they are partcipating.
February 26, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Carla Monarde
When this term began I thought linguistics was related to how language was described but only in terms of grammar and takeing just the written part, I didn’t know that linguistics involve context, sounds, how words are formed, speakers intention, etc that make understand a language. Now I think it is very important to know about linguistics, because we will become teachers and it will depend on how we teach English.
February 26, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Rincon Gabriela
Untill this point of the carreer we just learnt some structures and vocabulary in English, too basic by the way, but now with this subject I can notice that English is not only about writing and speaking.
In linguistics, differently as I thought at the beginig, we study all aspects related to languages, not only english, what gave me a general vision about what languages are and their components.
During the whole course, we compare some languages with others like Spanish, English, French and German, this helped me understand the similaryties and differences between them.
What is more and increases my knowledge, is the fact that this is not only a technical subject, but it includes important material related to the way of teaching like the teaching theories and the learning a second or native language theories among others which as a future teacher give me information that I can work with to make my classes more understandable and motivating.
February 26, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Mariángeles Salazar
Linguistic is an important subject because it helps us to understand the language and it functions, showing us a wide view of what we could do and what we could obtain with it. Personally, at the beginning of the course, I saw linguistic as a subject which made us be aware of the importance of language as second language learners and some tools for second language acquisition, but during the course until today I’ve change my mind, due to the fact that linguists is more than that, and even more than a wide variety of options in which you chose depending on the context and the approach but the analysis itself of the context and the options. Nowadays, I know that there is more meaning beneath sentences, words or sounds that what I could ever imagine would be. I’m also conscious of the learning and human theories that facilitate us an efficient tool in order to learn and comprehend the wonderful communicative speech act.
Mariángeles Salazar
February 27, 2007 at 11:27 am02
Ronny piñero
Far to much of what I knew linguistic was, my knowledge is now. It was for me just a subject which has as a main goal reviewing the human learning theories; but then a realized that is not a review, is the subject that clarifies what the language is, pointing out the several insights and perspectives it possesses regarding to its analytic structures, schools, also teaching and learning theories which are based on the several linguistics’ branches. It gave us the scientific basis of what we are studying or developing, and what we are going to teach beyond patterns and functions; it means that we now can deal with the why of what we are learning, and the processes involve in it. Facts that make any teacher improve his or her performance in class, to be able to make students really learn the language.
February 27, 2007 at 11:27 am02
José Freddy Herrera López
At the beginning of this term I did not know any thing about Linguistics and how important it is in the process of studying languages. My point of view about the subject has change because when we started the semester I was a little exacting to know what linguistics was and what was it about.
Nowadays the subject has helped me to clarify many things specially those regarding to language acquisition,
February 27, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Sharon Urbina
Of course I have a different perspective about Linguistics because at the beginning of the term I didnt know anything about the main notions of Linguistics. Now I feel more confident about those terms we disscused in class and I feel that I´m able to understand and explain certain aspects related to this signature.
February 27, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Raiza Uzcátegui
This course has definitely broadened my view of linguistics, language and language learning. The issues discussed in class have broadened my view about linguistics. Currently I know the properties of language, its elements, etc. which has helped me to understand a little bit more the language and the way it works. Now, I know that language is a human capacity that is related not only to the observable and measurable part of the communication process but also to its abstract aspects that involve mental operations and to its functional features. Moreover, there are some theories that say that this capacity to acquire language is innate and others that say that children are born with a tabula rasa (no previous knowledge) which is developed in the social interaction. At this point, I’m aware that the cognitive area of human behaviour is very important to acquire and internalize a first and a second language, which is related to the different learning theories that try to explain this process, such as: Pavlov’s classical behaviourism (people can be “trained” in order to follow a certain procedure and as a consequence they can learn any process), Skinner’s operant conditioning (any subject can be taught effectively by a carefully designed program of step-by-step reinforcement), Ausubel’s meaningful learning (the learners need the disposition to relate the new learning task to what they already know and the learning task itself is potentially meaningful to the learners) and Roger’s humanistic psychology (the learners should construct their own meanings in the interaction with others). I have also learned in this course that these principles have modified and developed language teaching and are very important in the L1 and L2 learning process.
February 27, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Luis Gutiérrez
Before I began to study in this course I saw language just like a system in which the most important thing was to know the position of each element of this system and its meaning, but in this particular course I have learnt that language means more than that, language involves a lot of characteristics and issues such as phonology, phonetics, morphology, pragmatics and some others which are very important to see language from other perspective. Another thing that I have understood is the relationship between the learning language and the psychological aspect which is vital in the learning process. This kind of subject allow us to take advantage in terms of student’s motivation and attitudes that are necessary to learn a second language.
February 27, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
sailet leon
when i stared to study this term, i did not know how important it was for us, as future english teachers, to study this subject, and to know the relationship between this three elements. Linguistics, set the basis for everything that refers to language and language learning, because every teacher has to know the topics we studied here in order to get a good performance in his/her work.
Now, thanks to the knowledge a have got, i have a broarden view about this, and I will take as much advantage as i can of it to use it in the future, in other subjects and at work
February 27, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
Luis Tequia
the new perspective I have about linguistics, language and language learning is definitely different from the one I had before this semester. this subject help me to understand language in a better way and expand my view about it. Linguistics allows me to know the different components that language has and for us that is really important because we are studying English as a career. to sum up, all the different topics that we took in this subject are really helpful for us as students and future English teachers because is the base of a lot of subjects we still have to take and for me to have a good base is crucial.
February 27, 2007 at 11:27 pm02
saavik Espinoza
when I started to learn linguistics I did not think it can be a fantastic and different I used to think and believe that Linguistics was a science for studying different languages, but I know now that linguistics is more than that. We study for some time a lot of rules, phonemes and morphemes in order to know how the language is formed; so, I could find very interesting to learn that I was wrong in many things about it. I would like to study more about this topic in the future in order to know more English language and why not my own language.