https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio en-us 2018-12-10 04:06:50 UTC 2023-07-26 17:33:57 UTC hello@padlet.com rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312771167 In the Linguistic Profiling Media Summary assignment, my group considered Ray Winstone, and the way that his Cockney Dialect was described in the comments section on Youtube. We found that many of the commenters (and people in general) associate speaking the Cockney Dialect with lower levels of education.
Domains: Speaking]]> 2018-12-10 04:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312771167 rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312771968 Joey Bada$$ is known for writing songs about what he sees wrong with society. Music is a channel that we often see used to distribute social messages. In many cases, dialect and language used in the song is decided by who the song is meant to influence, and who can understand the song.
"Rule one: this microphone's a weapon"
Domains: Listening Speaking]]> 2018-12-10 04:43:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312771968 rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312772438 I read about Exel, and considered how his experience in school differs from mine because of him being an ELL. I found that his background as an ELL and immigrant caused much stress on him that isn't present for native speakers. His experience reading and writing in school were vastly different than what I'm used to because the difference in language acted as a barrier.
Domains: Reading Writing]]> 2018-12-10 04:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312772438 rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312773393 This discussion was in regards to how parents of public schools used language to communicate their opinions in a dispute over public school districting in Brooklyn. Parents were quoted as using language to protest, threaten, and inquire. This dispute also illustrates the impact of having social capital on how one is able to communicate.
Domains: Speaking Listening]]> 2018-12-10 04:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312773393 rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312773881 This discussion asked us to express and justify our opinions regarding if speakers of nonstandard or local dialects should be put in ESOL programs. I said yes because it's important that they be fluent in the standard dialect in order to maximize the ability to speak, read, and write. Responses from the class were pretty divided on this topic.
Domains: Reading Writing Speaking]]> 2018-12-10 04:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312773881 rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312774097 We were asked to discuss challenges associated with speaking African American English presented in two articles. Signifying as a Scaffold discussed the impact of past experiences on interpretation of novels. The articles introduced signifying, which is a way of speaking particular to AAVE
Domains: Speaking, Listening, Reading]]> 2018-12-10 04:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312774097 rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312774252 My group discussed fairness in assessment of the SAT by examining SAT Practice Test 8 and the technical manual used to write the test. We found that language was largely neutral as was the goal stated in the technical manual, but the lack of accommodations for speakers of nonstandard dialects may be a source of bias. We discussed how language might influence reading and writing on assessments.
Domains: Reading Writing]]> 2018-12-10 05:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312774252 rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312774909 Raheem Sterling is an English soccer player who was born in Jamaica. He typically speaks with a standard British Accent. When he was speaking on the phone with Usain Bolt, he code switched to a jamaican accent so that he could better communicate with Bolt. I captured some of the comments in the attached document.
Domains: Speaking Listening]]> 2018-12-10 05:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312774909 rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312775533 Since learning about Cockney Rhyming Slang as part of my group's Linguistic Profiling Media Summary, I've seen it in multiple places - most memorably in this meme and in Russell Brand's stand up special on Netflix. The top text of the meme reads, "'ave a Butchers," which means "have a look." The connection between the two statements lies in the phrase, "Butcher's Hook," and in the syntax of rhyming slang which replaces a word (look) with part of a phrase (Butcher's) that rhymes with the word being replaced. The Cockney dialect is spoken around East London. It would be difficult for someone unfamiliar with the dialect to be able to understand what is being said here.
Domains: Speaking, Listening]]> 2018-12-10 05:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312775533 rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312777121 This artifact offers a critique on conclusions drawn from discussion of the "30 Million Word Gap." Anya Kamenetz, the guest on the talk show believes that Hart and Risley's results regarding the implications of wealth on language acquisition should not be taken too seriously because of flaws in the study.
Domains: Listening, Speaking]]> 2018-12-10 05:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312777121 rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312777619 We discussed fairness in assessment with regards to language and ELL's in great depth. This artifacts offers guidelines to best assess ELL's academic proficiency with minimal bias against language or dialect. It's very important to eliminate language/dialect bias from assessments. The problem isn't a simple one to solve, but the existence of guides like this are steps in the right direction.
Domains: Listening Speaking Reading Writing]]> 2018-12-10 05:27:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312777619 rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312778124 We started off the semester by discussing linguistic profiling. We looked at John Baugh's social experiments of calling real estate agencies with different dialects and noting the responses. This artifact discusses something similar - how may your dialect affect the listener's perception of you during a job interview?
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]]> 2018-12-10 05:30:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312778124 rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312778738 In class we discussed the different types of capital and the impact of language on capital. This artifact discusses the symbolic power that comes with speaking an, "official" language in the EU, and the unwillingness of member states to grant other languages recognition. The author, Eugene Loos states that speaking languages that are considered valuable affords the speaker significant power in society.
Domains: Speaking, Writing]]> 2018-12-10 05:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312778738 rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312778942 In class, we discussed linguistic adoration several times. Certain dialects are certainly associated with higher levels of education - this artifacts discusses the impact of dialect on the listener's perception of a speaker.
Domains: Speaking, Listening]]> 2018-12-10 05:36:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312778942 rbashir1 https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312779169 We discussed why preserving languages may be important, and how people that are attempting to preserve languages are going about doing it. This artifact is a project undertaken by GoCompare in an attempt to preserve at least a part of as many endangered languages as possible. The site consists of recordings of people in different languages saying the phrase, "A different language is a different vision of life."
Domains: Speaking, Listening]]> 2018-12-10 05:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rbashir1/eportfolio/wish/312779169