TLPL288C ePortfolio by Sam Sekscienski https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad en-us 2018-12-07 04:07:50 UTC 2026-02-23 01:06:55 UTC hello@padlet.com Artifact #1: Week 2 Reflection on Culture ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113094 The image that my group created represents how culture can be like a puzzle. Each culture has its own beliefs that can connect with others, but puzzles are the strongest links. This exemplifies how cultures can be similar and fit together but they are all not the same. The picture also demonstrates how the puzzle is inside the world, exemplifying how there are many different cultures in different areas in the world. We created that aspect because we believe your culture heavily depends on your demographics, as well as countless other aspects. We also drew all the puzzle pieces having no end pieces because we believe there are new cultures formed very often, and there are infinite amounts of them already here. The never-ending puzzle represents our ability to remain creating new bonds with other emerging cultures from all over the world.
            Today I learned that culture is not just defined as your ethnic background and this is why I choose to include it within my portfolio. Instead, it comes from all different aspects of your life, or just the aspects that you want to define yourself with. Culture can be defined, or not defined through, community, family, religion, political beliefs, music, art, etc. I also learned that culture can be defined through language as well. Some people are able to speak multiple languages fluently, meaning they are able to read, write, speak, listen, and use technologies, and all of these languages can help build up culture. In conclusion, I learned that culture is individual to each person and no one person is the same.
]]> 2018-12-07 04:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113094 Artifact #2: Music as a Protest ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113131 Many times artists use their music to express their feelings about societies issues and their beliefs on how society should change. The free style done by Eminem "The Storm" consists of many different attacks on President Trump's time as president. I felt this should included because the artist is expressing his feelings through music, and despite the grammar not being perfect the point gets across about what he is intending to say and pleading for a change in society through his language. This allowed me to be able to express my listening and reading domains of language. ]]> 2018-12-07 04:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113131 Artifact #3: Linguistic Profiling ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113138 Linguistic profiling can be defined as the judgements made about an individual based on their voice, such as economic status, social status, race, etc. I choose to include the time I linguistically profiled an individual even though I knew that this can be very wrong through the work done by Baugh and about the judgements I had made about an individual based on the way they spoke. This allowed me to demonstrate my speaking, listening, and reading portions of the domains of language. ]]> 2018-12-07 04:17:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113138 Artifact #4: Linguistic Adoration ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113140 Linguistic adoration is the admiration towards the way an individual speaks. My roommate is from Nottingham England and I have always had a linguistic adoration toward her and her family. I included this because it describes a daily aspect of my life when listening to her talk and I always have loved the way she sounds. This allowed me to express my listening domain of language as I listened to the way this family spoke]]> 2018-12-07 04:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113140 Artifact #5: MCAT ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113143 Standardized Assessments have been viewed as typically unfair to those completing them, especially those who are English language learners (ELL) or even for English speakers of other languages (ESOL). The MCAT was deemed a little bit unfair in analyzing the assessment by myself and two fellow students, most especially the critical analysis and thinking portion of the exam. I choose to include this in my portfolio because it was very important to discuss how many of these tests are "standardized" but yet are quite unfair to those who do not speak the standard English or are just beginning to learn the language because they have to take them to get placed into certain schools when first learning the language. This analysis expressed the use of my writing and reading portion of the domains of language.]]> 2018-12-07 04:17:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113143 Artifact #6: Linguistic Profiling within Black Panther and the Media ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113148 Linguistic profiling occurs in many areas of daily life and in the media. This project encompassed the linguistic profiling occurring in the movie Black Panther. I chose this for my portfolio because it describes how the media linguistically profiles everything and also how the media is linguistically profiled. This represents the listening and writing portions of the domain of language. ]]> 2018-12-07 04:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113148 Artifact #7: Health Content Groups Discussion ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113150 In class we discussed how different content groups, such as health, journalism, education, etc., and the effects of language and dialogue in these areas of content along with their effects on the occupations within. I chose to include this in my portfolio because I am going into the medical field and I felt it was one the most important things we learned this year for my future and during  my experience in class. This represents the speaking, writing, and reading portions of the domains of language.]]> 2018-12-07 04:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113150 Artifact #8: Dialect Map ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113153 During this week we each had to look at a dialect map associated with the states, or areas of the states we live in. This map listed different pronunciations used in the different dialect areas. I choose this to include in my portfolio because it represents an important aspect of the class that I have learned about how different all dialects can be. ]]> 2018-12-07 04:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113153 Artifact #9: Sociolinguistics ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113156 In class we discussed the effects of sociolinguistics and it looks at how identities are manifested through the words we use and how, through language, we create, maintain, and disrupt relationships with others. In my film class this semester we dealt with many films regarding the issues of the social classes, especially in the film "Nights of Cabiria". I choose this for my portfolio because it describes how I first utilized sociolinguistics when out of class and in a real life setting by analyzing the language in a movie. This exemplified the use of listening in the domains of language. ]]> 2018-12-07 04:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113156 Artifact #10: Accents/ Dialects within my Family ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113162 A majority of my family is from the Rhode Island area, and we have always found it interesting to discuss the ways their dialect differs from ours down here in Maryland. I chose to include this in my portfolio because it represents a dialect change that uses different pronunciations along with different words for similar meanings. This represents the speaking and listening domains of language. ]]> 2018-12-07 04:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113162 Artifact #11: English Language Learners ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113166 English language learners face some of the most difficult times when coming to America as students or even adults because of the difficulty of the language barrier. I chose to put this in my portfolio because I know as a health care professional I will be dealing with ELL for much of my job and need to ensure they are able to feel comfortable enough to share their feelings or injuries with myself and others. This uses the speaking and listening portions of the domains of language. ]]> 2018-12-07 04:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113166 Artifact #12: Code Switching ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113173 Code switching is the practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation. I have always been friends with many bilingual individuals who have used code-switching in their daily lives. I chose to include this in my portfolio because it has always been a part of my daily life because of my friends and I felt it was an important aspect of what we have learned in this class. This represents the listening portion of the domains of language. ]]> 2018-12-07 04:18:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113173 Artifact #13: Written and Oral Language Assessment ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113176 There have been many different assessments used to measure whether non-native English speaker should be able to enter certain schools. When checking out possible graduate schools I noticed a school required an English language assessment. I chose to include this in my portfolio because it has to due with my future at graduate school, and whether or not the population will effectively reflect all populations. This consists of all the domains of language. ]]> 2018-12-07 04:18:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113176 Artifact #14: Online Autobiography- How does language inform us? ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113178 The very first discussion post completed in this class consisted of each student writing what they thought about their own language history and how language has made a difference in their lives. I choose to include this because it gives a background to my linguistics and describes why I speak the way do and the influences I have in my own language and dialect. This allowed me to exemplify the writing portion of the four domains of English.]]> 2018-12-07 04:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113178 Artifact #15: Capital and Culture ssekscienski17 https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113182 In two of our discussion posts we have discussed the influence of capital and culture as well as the influence of social, economic, and cultural capital and the effects those have on each other. I chose to include this in my portfolio because in order to get far in the medical field one has to have all three types of capital and their own culture and this topic is important for my future and was a large aspect of the class. This uses the speaking, reading, writing, and listening portions of the domains of language. ]]> 2018-12-07 04:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ssekscienski17/ydrc85yhw9ad/wish/312113182