Science in the language field!
Hello
everyone! As I commented in my last post, I've been quite busy lately, and
things have not changed. But somehow I always have some spare time that I like
to spend watching videos on YouTube or reading about interesting
things. And what I find most interesting (at least now, since my likes
tend to change from time to time) is SCIENCE! Yes, I love science. The
understanding of the world that surrounds us by observing
and experimenting with it is something astonishing for me. And the
results to which you can get by just doing this two things BLOW ME AWAY! I've
always been more interested in the fields of physics and astrophysics, but when
I entered the teacher training college I was presented with a term which really
blew my mind and of which I have never heard before: LINGUISTICS, which is the
field that studies Language. And as a teacher of a Language and a very curious
person, it was only logical that it was going to catch my attention the way it
did.
I read a
lot of interesting things along my course through College, and some time ago I
found a video of a youtuber who I've been following for
more than a year now: Hank
Green. I've been following a science YouTube channel
which is presented by him and sometimes by other people called SciShow for about a year
now, and one day I found the video you are about to see by the YouTube recommendations.
In it he deals with the case of Kanzi, a bonobo who has been a
case study for linguists and about whom we never heard of in the
teacher training College (as least that I can remember) and continues
with a description of the basis of the knowledge of Language.
I really recommend
you watching this, since not only it is interesting for the average curious
person, but it is also well written and directed in a way that makes it simple
for the viewer to understand the topics. And for those who studied or are
studying linguistics, it is a nice summary presented in a very dynamic way. My
fellows at the teacher training college will know what I'm talking about. Specially
my teacher, who I'm sure will take this video into account for her classes one
day. I hope you like it and that you stay curious!
Love it! Hank and John are the best at explaining everything. I passed Culture 2 thanks to John. Welcome to the club, apes!
ResponderEliminarInteresting! I think we read about Kanzi in eait1...
ResponderEliminarGotta love CrashCourse.
ResponderEliminarI LOVE the video, Joaquín! And you are right... I will probably use it in my classes!! He does summarize very effectively and in a very passionate way!
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