Blog Post 6: Choice of Two Topics (Choose one of the two)

 

Blog Post 6: Choice of Two Topics (Choose one of the two)

Topic A: Tell us about a career-oriented website you enjoy visiting. Include this information:

  • Describe the website and provide the link.

  • How often do you visit it?

  • Explain why you like the site.

  • Who would you recommend it to?

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Topic B: Tell us about an expert/person in your field that you admire. Include this information:

  • Why do you admire this person?

  • What has this person done/contributed?

  • Provide a short biography of this person

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Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts + a comment on your teacher's post

Word Count: 150 words


Example: 


Fundación iS+D El propósito de la educación - Noam Chomsky ...

The man in the picture is Noam Chomsky, He is a very well known and widely respected Language Scientist. He is american and all his life, he has done research in the areas of grammar and language development among others. 


At the core of his theory there is the thought that the structures of language are not mere ordering of words in  that there are principles underlying the structure of language biologically determined in the mind and he thinks they are, therefore, genetically transmitted, in other words, since we come to life as humans, we come with the capability for language development.


He changed my perspectives of why people learn a language, of how people learn it and how can that process be reproduced in further stages of life such as "learning" a language as an adult or  as he says, "acquiring" a foreign language in later stages and contexts of a lifetime.


He is considered the Father of Modern Linguistics and because of his extensive research, many new methodologies to language study, and also many new areas have opened up, an example is the applications of his language theory into Neuroscience and IT, and even today he keeps on opening up new ares of thought mixing his theories with discourse and particularly public discourse critical analysis, and needless say, he is a must-study for every linguistics or language-related-area-student.

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