The Winter Scholar's Archive

    Portfolio Entry #9 ~ Poems ~ "We Refugees" by Benjamin Zephaniah. "Refugees" by Brian Bilston. ______________________________________ ~ Essay Writing and Thesis Statement~ Made with Padlet ______________________________________ ~Teaching about Refugees~ During my research for information to write my essay about Refugees, I came across this interesting section of the UN Agency for Refugees . It offers tips and ideas as well as relevant material to help teachers around the world when it comes to explain this topic to their primary and secondary students. In addition to that, this page also provides guidance for teachers who have migrants and refugees among their students. I personally find it very useful, and a great source of teaching material, as the topic is still present nowadays and it's not easy to deliver a lesson or lessons on it if one isn't properly trained or guided for it. Among the resources included are: animation videos, class discussion she...

  Portfolio Entry #8 ~ The Study of Language ~ [ Yule, G. (2010). The study of Language. U.K.: CUP. ] ______________________________________________________ Chapter 1: The Origins of Language It isn't known how language originated, but some type of spoken language must have developed between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago,  before written language (about 5,000 years ago). THE DIVINE SOURCE In most religions, there appears to be a divine source who provides humans with language. The hypothesis is that if infants grow up without hearing any language, they would spontaneously begin using the original  God-given language . There has been experiments that involved letting newborn babies grow up in complete isolation, without any exposure to any language; it was said they uttered words in what was assumed had to be "the original language". However, this theory has not been fully proven, as many other children born in isolation have shown very different results. THE NATURAL SOUND ...