Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Implication from phonology for teaching reading and teaching a second language!
It is difficult in most of the time to apply the structural analysis during reading. It is true that the knowledge of the meaning of roots, suffixes and prefixes help to understand or at least to assume the meaning of the new word. But it is not always appropriate to assume the meaning of the word by dividing a word into the parts of the different morphemes as it is difficult to define suffix. As text says it is helpful during vocabulary test to pick the right synonym out of a list of four answers. I remembered while giving GRE, one of the most valuable tactics was to assume the meaning of the word by parting it into different morphemes and try to correlate the meaning of the words according to the text but as per my personal experience I even did not find it very worthy as the list have similar meaning and it is really hard to find out the exact meaning of the word. It is not possible to apply during the reading of connected text. Thus in my view, it is not very worthy to understand or know the meaning of the word through dividing the words into the parts.
English Morphology!
English Morphology!
I think it is usual that the linguist find it difficult to define the term ‘word’ to all the morphemes. It is easier to define the free morpheme as a word but not very justifiable to say the word for the bound morpheme. For an instance a single letter ‘s’ is a morpheme, as bound morpheme but it is not usual to say the bound morpheme ‘s’ as word. It is because a word has its own definition as a word is the combination of one or more than one letter which gives meaning but bound morpheme ‘s’ cannot give any meaning until it is joined with other words. Thus it will be easier and authentic to teach non native speaker by naming it as the bound morpheme rather than naming it as a word.
Words are formed by various ways such as, adding free morphemes and bound morphemes on the root words. Similarly there are different types of languages: analytic and synthetic. After reading about the classification of the types of languages I realized that my language is in the classification of Agglutinative Language because in my language there add many morphemes into the words.
While talking about function words, determiners are something which might create confusion for non native speaker from my country because we do not use determiner in every context like native English speaker. For example it is weird or sound incorrect if one says, He bought book, instead one should say as, “he bought a book’ or “he bought two books”. There should be a determiner before the object, but in Nepali language, we say it as “he bought book”. Unless one does not ask, that how many books did he buy? Thus it is not usual to say, he bought one book or two books. We don’t need determiner to narrate the sentence. Thus while teaching English Language, back home it creates some time confusion in using a determiner.
I think it is usual that the linguist find it difficult to define the term ‘word’ to all the morphemes. It is easier to define the free morpheme as a word but not very justifiable to say the word for the bound morpheme. For an instance a single letter ‘s’ is a morpheme, as bound morpheme but it is not usual to say the bound morpheme ‘s’ as word. It is because a word has its own definition as a word is the combination of one or more than one letter which gives meaning but bound morpheme ‘s’ cannot give any meaning until it is joined with other words. Thus it will be easier and authentic to teach non native speaker by naming it as the bound morpheme rather than naming it as a word.
Words are formed by various ways such as, adding free morphemes and bound morphemes on the root words. Similarly there are different types of languages: analytic and synthetic. After reading about the classification of the types of languages I realized that my language is in the classification of Agglutinative Language because in my language there add many morphemes into the words.
While talking about function words, determiners are something which might create confusion for non native speaker from my country because we do not use determiner in every context like native English speaker. For example it is weird or sound incorrect if one says, He bought book, instead one should say as, “he bought a book’ or “he bought two books”. There should be a determiner before the object, but in Nepali language, we say it as “he bought book”. Unless one does not ask, that how many books did he buy? Thus it is not usual to say, he bought one book or two books. We don’t need determiner to narrate the sentence. Thus while teaching English Language, back home it creates some time confusion in using a determiner.
Monday, February 23, 2009
6th class
6th class
I was bit sad about this class. Due to bad health I stayed at home to take my online class. Later I found, my headphone did not work properly. Sometime it became so louder and sometime so softer in sound. Thus I was badly distracted in the whole session. I was so upset about the class but later when I listened the recording, I got most of the thing happening on that class. I am thankful to the professor for providing the recording of the class. It was amazing the way Lilian, our class mate present the Chinese writing pattern.
I was bit sad about this class. Due to bad health I stayed at home to take my online class. Later I found, my headphone did not work properly. Sometime it became so louder and sometime so softer in sound. Thus I was badly distracted in the whole session. I was so upset about the class but later when I listened the recording, I got most of the thing happening on that class. I am thankful to the professor for providing the recording of the class. It was amazing the way Lilian, our class mate present the Chinese writing pattern.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Lexicon and Morphology:
Lexicon and Morphology:
I found the topic really interesting and for the first time easy to understand Finegan.
To know a word for child or adult they should have four different kinds of information such as Phonological, semantic, syntactic and morphological in any languages. There are different types of lexical categories. For the native speaker of any language even the child could understand the different categories of words such as noun, verb, or adjectives, it is like an unconscious knowledge. But it is not the same case with the child of the second language. For an instance if I need to teach English in y country then learning about the different categories of word is not implicit knowledge or they cannot acquire it but they have to learn it explicitly, because it is not something which is implied. Thus it is essential to let them know the ways to identify the lexical category of a word.
Again English speaking child knows that verbs have a set of related forms and it is implicit knowledge for the but the child who has English as a second language must learn it again explicitly. I remember, Back home it was hard time for me to teach about the irregular form of verb. Such As some verb has the form such as, walk-walked-walked, both past and past participle have the same form but in other word, come-came-come, here the present and past participle have the same form. So in this way these irregular forms create difficulty in teaching at second language classroom.
Another toughest part to teach is preposition in my country. The first thing we have very prepositions in my language other thing is we have also the postposition in Nepali language. So it is very hard to give the concept of preposition to the student of my country.
For example: A cat sat on the mat.
In Nepali we say, A cat the mat on sat.
So preposition comes as postposition. Thus students make many mistakes regarding the preposition.
I found the topic really interesting and for the first time easy to understand Finegan.
To know a word for child or adult they should have four different kinds of information such as Phonological, semantic, syntactic and morphological in any languages. There are different types of lexical categories. For the native speaker of any language even the child could understand the different categories of words such as noun, verb, or adjectives, it is like an unconscious knowledge. But it is not the same case with the child of the second language. For an instance if I need to teach English in y country then learning about the different categories of word is not implicit knowledge or they cannot acquire it but they have to learn it explicitly, because it is not something which is implied. Thus it is essential to let them know the ways to identify the lexical category of a word.
Again English speaking child knows that verbs have a set of related forms and it is implicit knowledge for the but the child who has English as a second language must learn it again explicitly. I remember, Back home it was hard time for me to teach about the irregular form of verb. Such As some verb has the form such as, walk-walked-walked, both past and past participle have the same form but in other word, come-came-come, here the present and past participle have the same form. So in this way these irregular forms create difficulty in teaching at second language classroom.
Another toughest part to teach is preposition in my country. The first thing we have very prepositions in my language other thing is we have also the postposition in Nepali language. So it is very hard to give the concept of preposition to the student of my country.
For example: A cat sat on the mat.
In Nepali we say, A cat the mat on sat.
So preposition comes as postposition. Thus students make many mistakes regarding the preposition.
5th online class!
It was wonderful to see most of the online class mates are sitting together to take online class. I was feeling as if we were taking face to face class.We all were talking and sharing the feelings about the text.We did our first quiz before this class so I was excited to know about the quiz score.It was hard time during the quiz and also not very sure about those transcription exercises.Anyway when our professor said we all were doing good, I was relax.As usual class was interesting.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
A Linguistic Perspective on phonics:
Different people take different view about the phonics but still they have strong feelings about it.According to the word recognition view, readers must know the word then they should correlate the meaning of the word together to get the contextual meaning of the text.
As per the sociopsycholinguistic view the reader gets the meaning of the word in the context on the basis of their background knowledge.
Proponents of phonics says that the phonics should teach systematically to make successful.
Though the words phonics and graphophonics creates dilemma. Actually phonics is conscious knowledge which you learn but graphophonics is subconscious which you obtain during the time of the study other.
In my view meaning is possible only in the context.Single word without context can give meaning but not the clear one.Most of the time meaning is also depended upon the background knowledge of the reader. I think both views are important to obtain the meaning of the words.
As per the sociopsycholinguistic view the reader gets the meaning of the word in the context on the basis of their background knowledge.
Proponents of phonics says that the phonics should teach systematically to make successful.
Though the words phonics and graphophonics creates dilemma. Actually phonics is conscious knowledge which you learn but graphophonics is subconscious which you obtain during the time of the study other.
In my view meaning is possible only in the context.Single word without context can give meaning but not the clear one.Most of the time meaning is also depended upon the background knowledge of the reader. I think both views are important to obtain the meaning of the words.
English Orthography!
It is very interesting to study about the history of writing. People are using language from centuries but there are vast difference between the people writing today and people write centuries ago. According to the time the writing pattern or system has taken different changes.Earlier the writing was pictographic or ideographic but later it is used marks to represent the sounds of words in oral language.The changes occur due to the difficulties faced by the writer during the process of their writing.As an instance, earlier writing had to follow the pictographic system which makes writer to remember many different symbols.Thus the system takes change.
Again there arise a problem of the spelling of the word as it sound different. It is because in most of the words the pronunciation of the word and it's spelling is very different.When they try to make every word to be spelled the way it sounds again there comes the problem with the reading. Thus there comes the introduction of current system as the good compromise.
I remember in my mother tongue there are 11 different types of writing systems which comes one after another.But every system is still there. They do not replace the style but there comes as a new style.The recent style of writing is far developed than the earlier one, but still the writing experts want to make all those pattern alive thus they are using them.It is not allow to the writer to mix up two patterns in search of finding easy style.I mean if you want to use the recent style of writing, you can use but if you try to mix them then it will not be considered as an academic writing.It is true that very less people are there who use the oldest style but anyway all the styles are existed and non of them are replaced by other.
Again there arise a problem of the spelling of the word as it sound different. It is because in most of the words the pronunciation of the word and it's spelling is very different.When they try to make every word to be spelled the way it sounds again there comes the problem with the reading. Thus there comes the introduction of current system as the good compromise.
I remember in my mother tongue there are 11 different types of writing systems which comes one after another.But every system is still there. They do not replace the style but there comes as a new style.The recent style of writing is far developed than the earlier one, but still the writing experts want to make all those pattern alive thus they are using them.It is not allow to the writer to mix up two patterns in search of finding easy style.I mean if you want to use the recent style of writing, you can use but if you try to mix them then it will not be considered as an academic writing.It is true that very less people are there who use the oldest style but anyway all the styles are existed and non of them are replaced by other.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
4th online class!
As usual it is very interesting class.I was very upset and confused about the exercises but our professor did great effort to make us understand the exercise.Still I have some confusion,I will be sure once I get feed back on my exercise.I a so excited to complete my quiz and see the score because it is somehow related with the exercise.I just wanna know whether I understood or not.Anyway the class was very enthusiastic and we did very good practice of transcription.
Implication from phonology for teaching reading and teaching a second language!
There is debate between the concept that whether oral language is innate or whether humans have a special cognitive capacity for language. Sound plays a central role in the word recognition view because identifying words involve recoding written marks into the sounds of oral language.Students should develop phonemic awareness and use it as a base for learning phonics rule.this knowledge allows people to distinguish between words.Graphophonic combines their subconscious knowledge of sounds with knowledge of letters and knowledge of the correspondence between sound and letters.
Three linguistic factors: allophones,dialect differences, and language differences should be considered by the educators to evaluate the claims of those who take different views of reading second language.
Three linguistic factors: allophones,dialect differences, and language differences should be considered by the educators to evaluate the claims of those who take different views of reading second language.
English Phonology!
English Phonology!
Communication is very essential part of human life.They want to communicate through different medias, among the they love to talk most either face to face or telephone conversation and many more.People take it easily but human communication is not that easy the way people think it because sending and receiving message does not just include encoding and decoding system. Most of the time listener predict what they have heard and gives the answer on the basis of the prediction.Similarly social context also determines the meaning of the conversation.Most of the time word carries the non literal meaning than the literal one which gives very vast different meanings of the words.Using sound in communication has many more advantages.It helps other organs to do different works for example people can do work along with talking.
During normal communication a person can produce an average of eight phonemes. In phoneme production, the brain sends signal to the lungs, vocal cords, tongue and lips to contract or relax the muscles.Human have ability to use language to comprehend and produce meaning.
Linguistic is the scientific study of language and different linguists study different aspects of language.Here we are studying about how people learn the second language.The areas of linguistic such as phonology, morphology and syntax will help to evaluate the method of teaching second language.
Phonology is the study of the sounds used by the speakers of the particular language, and a phoneme is a sound that makes a difference in meaning in a language.different languages have different sets of phonemes.Physiology of speech describes about the place and manner of articulation.
There are three different types of vowels,such as short long and reduced.
consonants phonemes are produced by restricting or stopping the flow of air as it passes through the vocal tract.All the words of every language are the combination of vowel and consonant phoneme.Insight from linguistics in the area of phonology can be helpful for educators evaluating methods of teaching a second language.
Communication is very essential part of human life.They want to communicate through different medias, among the they love to talk most either face to face or telephone conversation and many more.People take it easily but human communication is not that easy the way people think it because sending and receiving message does not just include encoding and decoding system. Most of the time listener predict what they have heard and gives the answer on the basis of the prediction.Similarly social context also determines the meaning of the conversation.Most of the time word carries the non literal meaning than the literal one which gives very vast different meanings of the words.Using sound in communication has many more advantages.It helps other organs to do different works for example people can do work along with talking.
During normal communication a person can produce an average of eight phonemes. In phoneme production, the brain sends signal to the lungs, vocal cords, tongue and lips to contract or relax the muscles.Human have ability to use language to comprehend and produce meaning.
Linguistic is the scientific study of language and different linguists study different aspects of language.Here we are studying about how people learn the second language.The areas of linguistic such as phonology, morphology and syntax will help to evaluate the method of teaching second language.
Phonology is the study of the sounds used by the speakers of the particular language, and a phoneme is a sound that makes a difference in meaning in a language.different languages have different sets of phonemes.Physiology of speech describes about the place and manner of articulation.
There are three different types of vowels,such as short long and reduced.
consonants phonemes are produced by restricting or stopping the flow of air as it passes through the vocal tract.All the words of every language are the combination of vowel and consonant phoneme.Insight from linguistics in the area of phonology can be helpful for educators evaluating methods of teaching a second language.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
3rd online class
As usual It was interesting and amazing.The class becomes more interesting when there were different concepts on the same teaching topics, because different concepts make always things better understand because both person tried to explain and prove their own concept.
I found my friends are very smart experienced and well read, it made me more energetic to read a lot so that I can run with them.
I appreciate the way professor let us to make points and later she published it for all.It is really very helpful to understand the topic from different prospect.
I found my friends are very smart experienced and well read, it made me more energetic to read a lot so that I can run with them.
I appreciate the way professor let us to make points and later she published it for all.It is really very helpful to understand the topic from different prospect.
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