PORTFOLIO #10: Discourse and Context in Language Teaching

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PORTFOLIO # 14 Final Reflection

The portfolio was a very useful tool to show how much I have learned from this class and how much I have improved as a writer. In the portfolio I was able to prepare summaries and analyses of all the material that have been discussed in class. These assignments not only helped me to consolidate knowledge but also to prepare useful study notes for the final exam. The extra information provided in the blog was also very helpful in the understanding of many of the concepts discussed in class. Sometimes just reading the material by itself didn’t help me to understand some of the concepts .Therefore, having visual aids like videos and pictures really helped me consolidate these concepts in an easier way. In conclusion, having a portfolio made me engage with this class and work very hard for each of the assignments. As a result, I could identify my weaker points, work on them and improve as a writer.
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PORTFOLIO # 12 Videos

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1- The Inspector needs "a flawless American accent": In the first video we can see a clear example of “accent”.  When we talk about “accent” we are referring to the “differences in aspects of pronunciation that identify where an individual speaker is from, regionally or socially”. By hearing the inspector’s accent we can see a variation in the way he is speaking English. His accent identifies him as French. In order to not raise any suspicion, the inspector needs to acquire a perfect English accent. The woman is trying to teach him the Standard American English but he has some difficulties with the pronunciation. 2- Students' dialects? In the second video we can see an example of “dialects”. The term “dialect” involves much more than differences in pronunciation. This term is used to describe features of grammar and vocabulary as well. The people in this video present these kinds of differences in their speech. For example, they have problems with gram...
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PORTFOLIO #6 : Well written paragraph (Part 2)

2- TOPIC SENTENCES: 1. Topic sentence:  There are two broad theories concerning what triggers a human's inevitable decline to death. The first is the wear-and-tear hypothesis that suggests the body eventually succumbs to the environmental insults of life. The second is the notion that we have an internal clock which is genetically programmed to run down. Supporters of the wear-and-tear theory maintain that the very practice of breathing causes us to age because inhaled oxygen produces toxic by-products. Advocates of the internal clock theory believe that individual cells are told to stop dividing and thus eventually to die by, for example, hormones produced by the brain or by their own genes. (from Debra Blank, "The Eternal Quest" [edited]). Explanation: This paragraph is a straightforward description of two possibilities, neither of which is preferred over the other. In this case, it would be wrong to mention only one of the possibilities (the "internal time...
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