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Week 11 Discussion

Language in the World

Let’s start with the quiz!

Get out your device, use the access code on the board, and complete the quiz!

Access code is WRITING

Quick Review

• Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the ability to use, produce, and perceive language!
• But why is it hard to learn other languages?!
  • The way it is taught
  • When it is taught
  • How you feel about the relative complexity of it
  • Your motivations for learning it
  • Your attitudes towards it (and its speakers)
• Cool concepts: applied linguistics, communicative approach, interlanguage, fossilization, language acquisition device, critical period

Can refer back to quiz

Activity Time!

• We’re passing around a document with three different alphabets – try to write your name in all three!
  • What if we can’t find our sounds? Let’s talk about it!
  • Come write one of them on the board!
  • Can you find another script online where you can write your name?
• For example, Dr. Cramer found a website that would write her name in Japanese katakana (https://japanesenameconverter.nolanlawson.com/) – not sure about the validity of the website, but what do you notice about it?

For “what do you notice”, lead them to talk about the spelling at the end = no R sound, so double the vowel sound. I don’t know why it is 5 characters though; looks like it should be 4 syllables (je-ni-fa-a). You don’t have to have all the answers either!

Next week!

• Monday and Wednesday in Singletary
  • 🤷
  • Why can’t Siri pronounce my name?
• Friday = Quiz 9
  • Be here!
  • Let me know if you have any questions or concerns
• Observation notes due tonight by 11:59pm (not late, not AI)