The english language
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The document discusses the development of the English language from a small Germanic dialect to one of the most widely spoken languages globally. It explains that English has incorporated words from other languages like French and Latin through influences over time. The text provides useful information for students of English pedagogy, giving background on the history and geography of the language as well as word formation processes. Understanding the origins and evolution of English is important for teachers to effectively teach the subject.
The english language
- 1. The English language This reflection will explain about the text “the English language “how their words and structures have emerged and changed with the past of the time. Moreover it will indicate their most important ideas and how this text is relevant for us as future teachers of English pedagogy to be more competent. Going through the beginning of the text it provides a very clear information about the development of the English language, it shows how a Germanic dialect spoken in a small amount is now one of the most spoken language in the world. Firstly it’s because English is a mixture of other languages, the English that is now known has adopted a lot of words (loanwords) from other influences such as French and Latin. As result of this influences we can notice different varieties of the same language The text is a good element for our learning , it’s totally relevant with the course lexical analysis because it contributes knowledge to us about geography and history of the language, also provides useful information to achieve two of the objectives of the course, periods in the history and word formation processes in the English language. As future teachers is necessary to know as much as possible about what we are going to teach. One of the issues today is that most of the teachers are not engaged with the language. It’s not enough know about some aspects of English, a good teacher need to get a complete knowledge about the English culture and its origin. In my opinion the text has provide me in an easier way information of the English culture and and made me reflect that English language is a huge opportunity to be connected with the world, everyday is more widespread you could find a person who speaks English everywhere, besides as a future teacher to know English language helps you to expand your abilities and knowledge, I strongly think that a person have to get the most of their opportunities besides we cannot keep ourselves with a limited information we have to learn day after day .