Discussion by Sophie Bowie https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk en-us 2018-10-10 14:15:10 UTC 2025-11-21 07:29:08 UTC hello@padlet.com Group 4 miriamsemeniuk https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293077822 Pros: Teachers understand how languages are learned and can better teach their students. Specifically the ways that people learn can be tied enhanced]]> 2018-10-15 21:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293077822 Group 3: https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293078004 By observing phenomena such as CS, translanguaging etc., we can reverse engineer to pinpoint the origin of these phenomena. 
This reminds us of a book: 
How Language Began 
by: Daniel Everett ]]> 2018-10-15 21:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293078004 Group 2 https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293078423 easier to acquire L2 if it belongs to the same language group.
-surprising that early and late acquisition present similar cognitive effects
-context and motivation important in acquiring language - environmental factors: friends etc.]]> 2018-10-15 21:32:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293078423 Group 1 https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293078612 Effects of linguistic distance on studies of the bilingual brain. European language bias in studies?]]> 2018-10-15 21:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293078612 Group 1 https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293078980 Late developing bilinguals experience similar cognitive benefits to early bilinguals. Promising for plurilingualism and the promotion of life-long learning]]> 2018-10-15 21:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293078980 Group 3: https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293079096 If codeswitching uses a mix of more than one language simultaneously, then it seems that languages are not entirely separate entities, but rather, are constantly interacting with each other? In such cases, does it make sense for neurological research to look at speakers in terms of how many languages they speak, but rather how the languages interact together? ]]> 2018-10-15 21:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293079096 Group 2 https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293079422 using L1 in the acquisition of L2 is a bad thing is a myth that needs to be dispelled.

]]> 2018-10-15 21:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293079422 Group 1 https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293080061 Language learning as capital (e.g. young children in Korea in English classes)]]> 2018-10-15 21:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293080061 Group 1 https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293080304 Myths surrounding 'critical period' and its benefit for L2 learning may be debunked; larger political implications (e.g. education policy) still need to be considered v-a-v redressing inequalities derived from historical / colonial structures

]]> 2018-10-15 21:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293080304 Group 1 https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293080879 Divisions in 'term wars' counterproductive. Translanguaging and codeswitching at odds conceptually? Or seen both as resources?]]> 2018-10-15 21:44:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293080879 Group 4 miriamsemeniuk https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293080944  
Cognitive learning can inform teachers about how people learn and they can adapt and focus learning activities accordingly: bodily kinaesthetic (like is our exercise today with the alphabet, right hand, left hand and both); visual, auditory learning,.
Cognitive learning is refuted in the context of French Immersion in Ontario because there, for the most part, is no English instruction in the French program, therefore making the learning situation monolingual. 

]]> 2018-10-15 21:44:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293080944 Group 3: https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293080990 We compared the group's uses of structural and functional accounts of codeswitching. Depending on situations and contexts, and interlocuters (and levels of proficiency), we find that we alternate between the accounts. We don't think one account is more beneficial than the other. ]]> 2018-10-15 21:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sophieevabowie/vf7lg8wlamjk/wish/293080990