Language And Literacy

Often, we understand what is communicated to us, not by what we hear, but by what we see. This can be demonstrated in Albert Mehrebian’s Three Elements of Communication, that only 7% of what we understand comes from the words which are being used. 38 % is understood by the voice of the sender but an incredible 55 % of communication is done by body language. A tapping of the

Body language is the movement or position of the body that express a person’s thoughts or feelings. The majority of people use body language to communicate with one another; it is used in everyday social interactions, including Killaq Enuaraq-Strauss’s video response http://www.businessinsider.com/seal-hunters-ellen-degeneres-selfie-2014-4 to Ellen DeGeneres’s claim that seal hunting is inhumane. Enuaraq-Strauss throughout the entire video is defending Inuit people, and educating the viewers as to why seal hunting is beneficial. Enuaraq-Strauss uses numerous types of body language such as, hand gestures, different forms of eye contact, facial expressions, and various head motions; her use of of body language throughout the video is informative of her hidden emotions and thoughts

Body language has a great deal to do with communication and it is believed that body language is

The definition of Literacy to me was being able to simply read and write English. Growing up I had to go through different international schools which made the definition of language very clear to me. Language was how people of the same culture communicated verbally and in text. Both literacy and language are embed and intertwined in our daily lives. In this essay, I am going to analyse my assumptions of literacy and language through skill sets such as the four resource model, understanding dialects, discourse and multiliteracies and how these practices will help me to maximise my students literacy development.

It is evidently true that human beings communicate through more than one medium. When communicating people express ideas as well as emotions through facial expressions, tone and pitch, and gestures, which are non-verbal languages know as body language. Body language comprise of our non-verbal communication or kinesics, and just like the verbal communication, it is a part of our culture (Zhou, & Zhang, 2008). Gestures are conveyed through the use of our body, mainly through the movements of our hands and head. All around the world, people use gestures when they communicate, but what the gestures mean totally depends on the speaker’s culture, because just like verbal languages, non-verbal languages, such as gestures are not universal (Archer,

Communication is the interaction between individuals that allows us to deliver and receive information, thoughts and feelings. Communication can be seen to have three components: verbal (spoken words), non-verbal (body language) and paralinguistic (tone and pitch of spoken words) (Mehrabian 1981). This shows the complexity of communication in that variance in one ‘component’ could potentially alter or distort the desired meaning being conveyed to the recipient. Similarly Arnold, Undermann Bogss (2015) states that communication could be seen to be a combination of verbal and non-verbal actions being used in unison to exchange and strengthen ideas or share life experiences through means of posture, spoken words or personal symbolism.

Chimpanzees are very capable of reading body language, but sadly, they are unable to determine another individual’s emotions, whether they are ecstatic, gloomy, or possibly enraged. Chimps, alternatively, cannot ponder another being’s state of mind without the use of body language. According to Terrace, humans flourish with a much richer form of communication called declarative mode. Declarative language is described as conversational exchanges between a speaker and a listener with a purpose to exchange information. Humans are thought to use advanced language through various forms of writing, art, sound, radio, spoken language, sign language and so on, whereas Chimpanzees speak basic communication with a limited range of sounds and gestures. However, communication is not the only difference between humans and

Language is a universal vital tool that not only facilitates the ability to communicate thoughts and ideas, but also establishes relationships and cultural ties. Researchers Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom claims that a series of calls or gestures evolved over time into complex communication and language in the modern form. The evolution of language is a complex interaction of biological and cultural changes. Gee (2011) confirms the evolutionary adaptation theory with language as a communal resource and all human language developed from one original language, in oral form (p. 8). Over time, humans use the ability to encode and decode spoken, written, signed or gestured information to convey meaning. The positive or negative information is received in different forms through a single or combination of sensory channels, for

My chosen concentration in Literacy stems from my love of reading. However, I have not studied literacy until enrolling in this course. My orientation toward literacy theory and practice is beginning to take some form of shape. Learning the new theories and models as well as reading the post of my peers is very intriguing and interesting. In this proposal, I will expand on my personal ‘lens on literacy” in reference to readings throughout the course while answering the question, “How does this lens influence, to paraphrase Paulo Freire's words, "how you read your world and the words in it?"

Young children imitate what they see adults do in society. On such thing is reading. Children will take up any form of literature and pretend that they are reading. To enhance and cater for this behaviour parents and teachers can:

The development of literacy has taken a number of years. The effort to explain how people have improved on their education using universal formulas has become useless. The growth of literacy is similar to designing a car. Many people with distinct elements are involved, and some of the factors might or might not be done in our control. There is no clear process of improving a person’s education. Therefore, it requires the efforts of those who are specialised in different phases of this development. There are those who help learners perform well in the lower levels while others offer their expertise in later stages of education. In addition to this, if all the people play their roles in the best possible ways and be able to learn from other

Time and time again, a person can encounter an individual who talks the talk. Actions, however, are the components which draw that line to a blur. Actions can be stronger than words due to the fact that actions prove or disprove words. Philip Lewis, writer on communication says, “Most of us speak one verbal language, but everyone speaks a nonverbal language.” Lewis, in this brief figure, describes the use of actions as a universal language.

Through this week learning resources, I have learned that there are evidences that demonstrate that when a child has limited experiences he or she is more likely to have difficult comprehending what is read. It is why early childhood professionals affirm that oral language is the foundation for literacy development. Everything that children learn about speaking and listening they use for writing and reading and what they learn from writing and reading they use in listening and speaking. In other words, oral language and literacy develop simultaneously. When parents provide rich language and literacy reinforcement at home, children do better in school than those who do not. It is also known for early childhood professionals that for a child with limited experiences is more difficult comprehending what is read. For example, a child who has being exposed to many environments like a farm or like a museum will have more mentally engagement in classrooms activities about things he or she already know that children who have not had experience in those environments. Many researches showed that children that have not have a literacy development or an oral language development years before formal schooling, are less likely to be successful beginning readers, opening an achievement lag that might last through the primary grades. Some of the reasons why parents are not actively involved into their children’s educations are their socioeconomic or legal status. For example, in an immigrant family sometimes both parents have to work and sometimes they have to work two shifts. I have known families where children are the whole day in school and with nannies. Those children do not develop any skills that help them to succeed at the time of attending forming school.

* In the educational field, the teaching learning cycle is a model used in contemporary teaching in both school and adult educational settings. Rothery (1996 in Derewianka & Jones 2012, pg 43) who originally developed the model used this to aim at disadvantaged children for teaching literacy and writing in the KLA (Key learning areas) who were from socially disadvantaged areas. Over time the model has been phased across other areas of the English language such as listening, speaking, reading as well as writing. The key involvement of the teacher also known as ‘expert other’ in the teaching learning cycle is guiding the learner to understand key concepts in academic literacy through use of scaffolding strategies to transform students

Human beings are also known as ” homo communicus” because they communicate with other members of the species. Before spoken languages were developed, they communicated with other members by using various parts of our body – face, eyes, limbs, body and sounds to convey their fillings, emotions, ideas etc. However, interest in the subject started only after Charles Darwin wrote his book titled “Expressions of Emotions in Men and Animals” in 1872 and has increased after Julius Fast wrote his book titled, “Body language” in 1970. Also called non-verbal communication, it is a complex procec involving people and geastures, expressions and thounds they make to communicate with others. Charlie Chaplin and other famous actors of silent movies may