Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
Thursday, 4 September 2014
Language acquisition terminology.
Language acquisition - Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.
5 words that relate to language acquisition:
Addition - Adding an extra vowel sound to the end of a word. For example, "ie" to make the word, "Doggie".
Proto word - An invented word that has a consistent meaning. For example "Init".
Holophrase - One word utterances - often seen with infants and babies.
Post telegraphic - Complex combinations of words. Often found to be used by 36 month year olds.
Telegraphic - Three or more words combined together. Often used by 24-36 month year olds.
Tuesday, 2 September 2014
English Diary: September 2nd 2014
I must first apologise for the lack of posting over the summer. I am sure you will understand that there are a lot of distractions that people of my age face over the 6 week break. However, here is my first ever English Vlog.
English Language vlog from Connor Evans on Vimeo.
Monday, 1 September 2014
Gabby Logan Transcript.
English language investigation: Gabby Logan transcript(s).
Below are two transcripts from two interviews that female
reporter Gabby Logan conducted with England players Robert Green and John
Terry, following their 1-1 draw with the United States of America at the 2010
World Cup finals. The reason that I have chosen two interviews to transcript is
because Gabby Logan does not speak too much Robert Green’s mistake in her first
interview, but the relevance of the interview to the investigation is too
strong, so I couldn’t leave it out.
Gabby Logan
and Robert Green:
Gabby Logan
– Rob, what happened?
Robert
Green – Uh, its uh… and interesting ninety minutes (2) uh, a lot of
players from the Premier League, a lot of lads who we’ve played against earlier
this season. So you know (.) it was a strange game in that respect because it
didn’t feel like an international game… apart from the two names of the
countries. It was a game that we were obviously looking to win (2) a game where
we look at both ends of the pitch and say that’s where the game was
decided. I’ve cost a goal which is
obviously regrettable but something to bounce back from.
Gabby Logan
- John Terry mentioned that
it may be something to do with the ball (1) the flight of the ball?
Robert
Green - Well it hasn’t helped.
There’s been big issue in training with the lads (.) you have two palms that
equal about a foot wide, maybe more in span and it’s hit the outside of my
thumb (1) and I’m not that bad of a keeper to miss that. It’s an issue that’s
come up in training and it’s an issue that’s going to come up in the games. But
it’s not an excuse. It’s something that’s happened in life, but you except it
and move on.
Gabby Logan
and John Terry:
Gabby Logan
– John, it was a great start.
John Terry –
Naa, great start. We aimed to start well. We saw the games before where
we felt there was a slow tempo (.) so we thought that if we started well today
then we’d get an early goal… and we did.
Gabby Logan
– And then the first twenty minutes, the tempo was there (.) it
did seem to drop off a bit though.
John Terry
- Yeah I think after the
goal naturally we sat back a bit (.) whereas we maybe should have tried to hunt
the ball down more, press them and try and get the second goal (1) looking back
in hindsight we should have done that.
Gabby Logan
- And then of course (1)
Rob Green’s mistake… what have you said to him?
John Terry
- Naa look, listen, you
know it could have happened to anyone umm (.) it’s disappointing but things can
happen. We spoke about the movement of the balls (1) ummm, it’s just one of
those things where we all have to concentrate (2) like I said, it could have
happened to anybody, but you know it always seems to happen to us (2) so
hopefully that’s our one out the way. We’d rather it now than the later stages.
Gabby Logan
– How is he?
John Terry –
No, listen Green is okay. We’re a good bunch of lads, we’ve been away
together for a few weeks now, in each other’s pockets. But he’s a big
character, he’ll bounce back from that no problem.
Gabby Logan
– And then we lost Ledley at half time. What did you think
before that? (1) how did you think you were getting on?
John Terry –
Very well actually. Right after Gerrard’s goal he looked at me and said
that his groin felt tight so I told him to stay near me and we would cover each
other. But in the end it was too much.
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