Written language

What is language? When I first read the topic name I thought this question was absurd, language is what it has always been, a means to communicate, what more could there be to know? This perception changed as I read and analysed the videos and readings for this topic and navigated through my own social interactions and the unspoken societal rules that govern speech. My changing perception of what language can and can 't do was influenced by the article Language and Learning in the Digital Age

“Equitable Written Assessments for English Language Learners: How Scaffolding Helps.” Siegel, M., Menon, D., Sinha, S., Promyod, N., Wissehr, C., & Halverson, K. (2014). Equitable Written Assessments for English Language Learners: How Scaffolding Helps. J Sci Teacher Educ Journal of Science Teacher Education, 681-708. In the article Equitable Written Assessments for English Language Learners: How Scaffolding Helps, the researchers investigated the effects of scaffolding on classroom written assessments

Written Language The Bigfoot made many patterns with the rocks as my research progressed. Most of the patterns were meaningless or open to a varied array of interpretations. Then in January of 2010, I would find an actual message in the rocks. I had left a smiley face formed out of seven rocks. When I returned a week later, I found a pattern that looked like the letter “C.” A few days before finding the rocks placed in a “C” pattern, I had listened to a radio interview of a Native American woman

LANGUAGE RELATED TASKS Grammar item 1: …but sooner or later we have to sleep. Meaning  In this sentence have to sleep is used to express the idea that we are obliged to sleep even if we don’t wish to do so.  CCQs: Is it something we must do? Yes. Can we avoid it? No. Use of examples: We have to use the safety belt. Children have to attend school by law. Form      Have to is a non-modal alternative to the modal verb must to talk about obligation. It is interchangeable with have

Written Language: Reading and Writing Reading and writing are parallel processes with similar cognitive strategies. Because of the connection between thought and language, reading and writing should be incorporated into all content to enhance students' skills in thinking and learning. Reading is a process of stages in which a reader will; read, explore, and reflect on the text they are reading. The writing process is similar to the reading process, including various activities involving students

The article “Emojis: The death of the written language?” (Mody, 2015) by Seema Mody is a bad article because, yes emoji’s are used in everyday text messages as well as the written language. You can’t have a conversation simply by using just emoji’s. In the article, Mody makes the assumption that “recipient not always grabbing the full meaning” (Mody, para 23) basically meaning someone might misinterpret what your trying to say. But that is wrong because for example, the peach emoji can be interpreted

Language and Literacy what are they? How do they relate? How do we learn them? These are just a few questions one might ask them self when they contemplate the effect language and literacy have on learning. “Forms of language and literacy develop supportively and interactively. Children build on oral language knowledge and practices as they learn to read and write’ they develop key understandings about reading through writing, and they extend their writing range through reading” (Braunger &

Coming into Language “There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.” This quote by Edward Gibbon illustrates the intensity of writing and what gratification it can hold. When one writes, they are not confined to one certain formula. A person is able to express their thoughts and feelings in any way they choose. Language is a border for many people in that some cannot comprehend a certain language, understand how to use it, or recognize what is being said to them. On the

1A As the story so often goes, I was once required to write, and thus I have been writing (largely under mandate) ever since. Although a Grandmother, who I in my childhood stayed with weekly, spoke chiefly in Spanish, I never learned enough of the language to ever properly forget it. This is a decision I’ve come to deeply regret in light of the book sales of Richard Rodriguez. My writing in adolescence was characterized by its being profoundly uninteresting. The highlight was a highly directed poem

Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Written language is perhaps one of the most defining characteristics of human society. Since it was developed thousands of years ago in the Mesopotamia region it has advanced into what we know it to be now, allowing humans to express themselves through symbols (Mark). However, even before the first written languages were being formed, paintings lined the walls of ancient caves. These cave paintings were the precursors to the written language, explaining a plethora of things