English Language Learners
Week 9
Assignment due Tuesday, November 10, by 4 p.m.
Learning Activity 1
Where Do English Words Come From? Who Creates Them?
PEOPLE COIN, meaning CREATE, new words ALL the time!
We as talkers have both
- Active Vocabulary: Words learned that we can use in conversations and writing.
- Passive Vocabulary: Words recognized but are not able to be used in conversations and writing.
A Native English Speaker, of age 20 has
20,000 words in an Active vocabulary
40,000 words in a passive vocabulary
and continues to learns a word a day till middle age.
Growth of native speakers' vocabulary is determined by reading habits between ages 4 & 15.
Kids who read a lot learn 4 new words a day.
Kids who read not as much learn 1.5 new words a day.
Read 
Shakespeare invented 1700 words
1. Choose 5 words in your ACTIVE vocabulary from the resource of Shakespeare's invented words that you would NOT think Shakespeare coined or used in new ways to make them mean what they mean today.
SWITCH FROM SHAKESPEARE TO THE DICTIONARY!
According to the Merriam-Webster website
to be included in the dictionary, a word must “be used in a substantial number of citations that come from a wide range of publications over a considerable period of time.”
CHOOSE 3 words you do not know from the chart.
2. First, write your own definition by guessing what each unknown word MIGHT mean.
Second, write the dictionary definitions below yours.
Learning Activity 2
Create a Frayer Model
WITH someone YOU ARE TUTORING or with a Friend
Design on a google slide or in a google doc a Frayer Model to illustrate a word, idea, or concept that might be something you are tutoring or something you and a friend are learning.
Include photos, illustrations, pictures and backgrounds to catch learners' interests as you see in these Frayer Models.
Insert the Frayer or a photo of it into your assignment document or attach it to your Canvas submission as a media file.
Learning Activity 3
English is Continuously Expanding and Evolving
We are ALL constantly and continuously English Language Learners.
Everything we learn NEW has its own vocabulary that we need to know.
GOLF is a new language.
BIOLOGY is a new language.
PHYSICS is a new language.
DANCE is a new language.
Smartphone became a prominent word beginning in 1997 AND then entered the dictionary:
-
A smartphone is a mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, internet access, and an operating system capable of running downloaded applications.
- Tutors and teachers support students' expanding ACTIVE vocabularies by recognizing and valuing students as language creators using language in new ways in their writing and conversations.
3. Define 3 new words you are now using in conversations, texts, or class discussions that you were NOT saying in high school.
4. What is the NEWEST word or phrase you have learned? What does it mean?
5. WHY is it easy to incorporate these new words into your lexicon?
NOT PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT
Lindsay Owens
ONLINE LEARNING GAMES FOR HOME AND SCHOOL
English -- What is different from other languages?
Choose 3 adjectives to describe the bridge.
Write those words BEFORE you view Lera Boroditsky explaining her research.
View
https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think?language=en
Transcript is under the video.
According to Lera Boroditsky, how do the languages we speak inform our thinking about things and about the world? Describe 4 ideas you learn from the TED talk.
Analyzing your choice of 3 words describing the bridge, do any convey feminine or masculine qualities to English speakers? Explain your thinking.
Hear 5:30 - 6:40 of the podcast, Shakespeare Had Roses All Wrong.
What is happening to our brains' beliefs and perceptions seeing two different words in the experiment, Bags of Roses?
PAGE SUMMARY FROM GOOGLE NOTEBOOK LM
AI Alphabet in Scholarworks
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/publication/cb3010b7-e3a3-423d-889c-2133f660c7bb
Comments (0)
You don't have permission to comment on this page.