Verbal Messages: Exchanging Ideas Through Language Why do members of a culture or co-culture have such ingrained loyalties and intense attachments to their language? How would you explain the following phrase: “Language profoundly shapes the perceptions and worldview of its speakers”? What are some important ways that a culture’s values might influence a culture’s use […]
Part 1: What kind of teacher do you want to be? Home-Based, Center? Elementary? Preschool Teacher? Early Interventionist/Supporting children with special needs? Infant Toddler Teacher? TK? Kindergarten? Identify the position that you most desire and Part 2 Complete the Multiple Intelligence Activity and identify and describe the 2 strengths that are the strongest in you […]
How deeply do you think that speaking a gendered language affects thought? After all, speakers of a non-gendered language assign genders to different objects, so it can’t be the case that having gender in a language is what causes people to even conceptualize an object as having a gender in the first place. Can you […]
Students will choose one topic about which to write a detailed analysis essay. Your 3-page paper will include two parts. Please organize your paper in essay format, with a thesis statement, sub-claims, and evidence for each of your points. This assignment will build student skills in summarizing and synthesizing different perspectives, as well as capacity […]
