Chapter 04: The Sound Patterns of Language and Chapter 05: Word Formation (Summary)

Two students lead the assigned lessons in the class. The lesson 4 is The Sound Pattern of Language, which is presented by Miss Somchan Socheata. She asks us to discuss about some technical terms and their meanings in groups, and I asks each group to give the definitions to each words such as phonology, phonemes, allophones, minimal pairs, minimal sets, phonotactics, and syllables. Phonology is the description of the systems and patterns of speech sounds in a language. Phonemes are small components of sound in language. Minimal pairs is the two...

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01. The origins of language and The Animals and Human Language (Summary and Reflection)

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01. The origins of language (Summary and Reflection)

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Article critique

1.     Summary We are living in the context of globalization. Most people own a smart phone that they can access to Internet at anytime. The new smart phones equip with high-resolution camera, so the owners can capture picture easily. Photographs can be integrated in our teaching because a picture can be described in a thousand words. Baker, Lottie (2015) did a research on integrating visual literacy in language learning with photographs. In his paper, she define the word ‘visual literacy’, provide a rationale for connecting...

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