Thursday, 3 September 2015

Reading Log


Source One:

The Guardian. 2015. ICYMI, English language is changing faster than ever, says expert. [Online]. [Accessed 11 July 2015]. Available from: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/01/icymi-english-language-is-changing-faster-than-ever-says-expert (In this article the writer explains that the English Language is evolving quicker lately due to social media and instant messaging. The Language Change can be found greatly in "text speak" terms. The writer explores terms like ICYMI (in case you missed it) and modern terms like "fleek" and "bae". They surveyed 2,000 people to see if they knew what these terms meant, and the results were very low.)

Source Two:

Hill, A. 2011. Singing to children may help development of language skills. [Online]. [Accessed 11 July 2015]. Available from: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/may/08/singing-children-development-language-skills (The article explains that singing to children could actually help their language development. Sally Goddard Blythe, a consultant developmental education director has said that singing traditional lullabies and nursery rhymes to babies and infants before they learn to speak is essential in later educational success. It's a special type of speech which prepares the babies voice, brain and ear for language that it will soon be taught. Hill explains that there have been significant numbers of children that enter school and nursery that have inadequate language skills as their parents haven't helped to develop them.)

Source Three:

Sample, I. 2014. Talking to babies boosts their brain power, studies show. [Online]. [Accessed 22 July 2015]. Available from: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/14/talking-to-babies-brain-power-language (In the article, she (Hill) explained that reading bedtime stories to babies improves their brain power and so sets them up for school success. A developmental psychologists has said that parents shouldn't just use simplistic baby talk and should expand the language they use to talk to their child. The psychologist described a series of experiments in which she tested children's language processing skills. It found that when parents chatted more with their children, their language processing improved and they learned new words more swiftly.

Source Four:

Gill, M. 2013. Have we literally broken the English language? [Online]. [Accessed 30 July 2015]. Available from: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/13/literally-broken-english-language-definition (Throughout the article she (Gill) talks about how language is changing by how the word "literally" has changed. The original definition is "in a literal manner or sense" now, it means "to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling". It then states that we can't do anything about it as people would be surprised if it is used in the original sense of the word. Also if it isn't literally it's another word.

Source Five:

Kleinman, Z. How the internet is changing language. [Online]. [Accessed 25 August 2015]. Available from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10971949 (In the article Kleinman writes about the different ways that internet is changing our language. An example would be 'to Google'. Years ago this phrase would have no meaning, now it means to search something on Google's search engine. Other ways are super slang in computers (Control, Alt, Delete) and Word play. An example of Word play is Lolcats. There would be a picture of a cat accompanied by a deliberately grammatically incorrect caption. She overall shows that this could be the future of our communication and language.

1 comment:

  1. Good range of reading - are you inspired to look at anything relevant to these for your investigation?

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