MLO 2 Linguistics
Course Description: Reviews all phases of communication skills with practice in understanding, speaking, and writing grammatically correct Spanish. Teaches specific components of Spanish grammar: the Spanish verbal system, the subjunctive, ser versus estar, and other problematic aspects of grammar. Taught in Spanish.
Course Description: Reviews all phases of communication skills with practice in understanding, speaking, and writing grammatically correct Spanish. Teaches specific components of Spanish grammar: the Spanish verbal system, the subjunctive, ser versus estar, and other problematic aspects of grammar. Taught in Spanish.
Reflective Narrative:
The course SPAN 303 advanced Spanish grammar was taught by Dr. Rebbecca Pozzi. Her enthusiasm made this class more interesting and less challenging. In this class, we used the book Gramatica español variacion social by Kim potowski and Naomi Shein. In this class we read each chapter and took a mini quiz on each chapter before discussing in class the topic. This class taught me language plays a central role in social identity. We rely on language as a key variable in identifying gender, age, socioeconomic status and other factors. It was very interesting to learn that there is no such thing as “They don’t speak Spanish, they speak a dialect” because if two people can understand each other despite difference in pronunciation, vocabulary or syntax it is the same language. If they do not understand each other, they are two different languages. This course empowered me to not judge people by the way they talk because they are just not following the prescriptive rules. Society has created the linguistic prestige cycle where the way of speaking of prestigious people enters the dictionary and grammar. I learned a lot throughout the semester about different linguistics phenomena. Code switching, semantic extensions, loan words. I was able to find these elements in an interview from Pitbull. My writing improved and I was able to identify in what tense I was writing; past tense, present perfect, present tense, preterite. In the future I want to learn more about code switching because as a bilingual student I found it very interesting the flow when a person used code switching when talking. I used spanglish, but I want to be able to have a nice flow when using English and Spanish in a intra-sentential code switching.
span303_sp23_proyectofinaloficial.pdf
The course SPAN 303 advanced Spanish grammar was taught by Dr. Rebbecca Pozzi. Her enthusiasm made this class more interesting and less challenging. In this class, we used the book Gramatica español variacion social by Kim potowski and Naomi Shein. In this class we read each chapter and took a mini quiz on each chapter before discussing in class the topic. This class taught me language plays a central role in social identity. We rely on language as a key variable in identifying gender, age, socioeconomic status and other factors. It was very interesting to learn that there is no such thing as “They don’t speak Spanish, they speak a dialect” because if two people can understand each other despite difference in pronunciation, vocabulary or syntax it is the same language. If they do not understand each other, they are two different languages. This course empowered me to not judge people by the way they talk because they are just not following the prescriptive rules. Society has created the linguistic prestige cycle where the way of speaking of prestigious people enters the dictionary and grammar. I learned a lot throughout the semester about different linguistics phenomena. Code switching, semantic extensions, loan words. I was able to find these elements in an interview from Pitbull. My writing improved and I was able to identify in what tense I was writing; past tense, present perfect, present tense, preterite. In the future I want to learn more about code switching because as a bilingual student I found it very interesting the flow when a person used code switching when talking. I used spanglish, but I want to be able to have a nice flow when using English and Spanish in a intra-sentential code switching.
span303_sp23_proyectofinaloficial.pdf