Independent Component 2

Calendar/ Log hours
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At85uyEB0aPQdGIxUzdITXZEMjBxVGN2VVJpUWtueEE

Literal

(a) I, Nancy Atempa,affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
(b) I completed 30 hours of learning Frech with Milan Freeman, we used a book called learn Frech in 30 days by Berlitz. We did a couple of lessons on it and the exercises and learned new words along the way, many ways to say to arrive in present tense and things like that. We used youtube.com to find the alphabet, greetings, numbers, how to pronounce certain letters and words and rules of how the words are said.

Interpretive

I believe this represents 30 hours of work because we did our best to practice the language as much as we could. There were little sections of te book that had stories and we would hear the audio and then try to interpret what it was trying to say. Because there was two of us, we corrected each other and made things less stressfull. Well at least i can say it gave me confidence to want to learn the language more.

Applied

This component helped answer my first answer to my eq even further than what i had before which is pronunciation and writting. Pronunciation was something really though to do because we have already developed a language or two and knowing a another language later on is kind of difficult. Like one of my biggest difficulties when learning french was the letter 'r'. Since I know how to roll my r's, the r in french has to be kept down and let the back of the mouth say it for you. In writting, it was also hard becuse its another language and so it means different rules apply to it. one of my biggest problems was that i had to keep looking at the word or sentence i had to write so i wouldnt spell it wrong. Something that was really hard for both were the words. An example like Bonjour you can't say the last letter of the word and when you write it down its one of those things that you already know even when a letter is silent.

Helping 2013

Clara Amaya
4/23/12  1:40pm

1. For a career topic she wanted to do ADA which is a person who works with people who have disabilities. And i guess a fun topic would be music. She picked these because she seems interested in them.

•  I told her thats a good start because not many of us see kids with disabilities and told her about my little sister who has autisim.  For her second topic i told her that Ogden is a big help considering his elective class is music and happens to know a lot about it.

2. Her aunt has a child who has a disability and would like to do hours along with the child. For music shes not really sure. maybe going to one of her old music teacher from middle school and see if she can do hours with them.

•  I told her about a place called Casa Colina which is in La Verne for her first topic where she can do some service learning or at least check the place out. For the second one i told her that school is not a good place to check first because they might not let her and think of ther places like a music shop.

3. She's expecting a lot of in depth, like we should really know it by now and topics that dont come into someones mind.

• I said that yes most of us know our topic but that doesnt mean we can put it into words becuase some of us might get stuck or forget everything we need to say or get really nervous. i told her that she should expect to get something out of it but she should remember that many of us are nervous.

4. She wants to know how senior topics work overall, is there any special rubric, and do they have to answer an essential question.

• I told her about the N/C rules and the form we had to sign in the beginning of the year and how it works. some recommendations i told her were that ADA is a good topic because i think theres many disability places out there and some schools that have a special class for them. 

Answer 3

Eq= What is the best way to learn a second language?
 There are many people living in the US and English is their second language. So how is it that all those people come to learn the language? I believe that people learn a second language best by the environment they are surrounded by. Like English is used in every place; at school, in work, restaurants, banks and so on. Just about anywhere or what you read is english. For example, since spanish is my native language, I learned english by watching tv and learned in school. How I progressed is by talking to my peers and siblings. Other people like children learn by mimicking a person or something on tv which is still the environment.

http://www.asha.org/publications/leader/2008/080212/f080212a.htm

http://www.education.com/reference/article/how-children-learn-second-language/

3-Column Chart

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At85uyEB0aPQdEhzNEtIWjVVcTdkZ0FMMTA1REpmNXc

Room Creativity

1. I plan to have as many posters all around the room of different ways to say hello.
2. For answer 1 , I would llike to teach them an alphabet of a language for practice. My second answer, I still dont know what to do for motivation.

Answer 2

EQ= What is the best way to learn a second language?
Answer 2= Motivation is the key to learning a second language
Evidence=

1. There are two types of motivation instrumental and Intregitive motivation. intregitive is to actually wanting to study the language while instrumental is to have it for a neccesity.
2. A child is most likely to learn because of their motivation of acquiring things before the age of 5. Compared to an adult, some lack motivation and just want to learn it as a neccesity.
3.  Even when babies are learning their first language, it means that they want to learn it and start out by mimicking and babbling and so motivation is there too.

Sources= http://iteslj.org/Articles/Norris-Motivation.html
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/how-young-children-learn-language
http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/ncrcds04.html

The Product

As going through language acquisition as my senior topic, I've come across things i would never think of. Like for example the first time i was learning to speak or learning a second language. The very first time I learned to read and when i actually learned the spanish alphabet. As I grew older, i had to translate for my parents or people that asked me for directions or things like that. When my mom was learning english she would tell me to help her out in pronunciating the words and i couldnt help her because i would laugh too much. But at the same time she would laugh at me when i would say things in spanish that i couldnt say right. Today i want to learn different languages and i know pronunciating will be something hard to get at. So for my product i would say being in the learners shoes and knowing what it feels like. I kind of experienced it with learning the numbers in italian because the c is not pronounced as how we pronounce it in english and knowing how to say it correctly. And i know that it will take a while to get used to the language and i will have to go through that if i want to learn another language which i do really want to.

An example of what i did for the activity part of 20 min presentation

 http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blfare134a.htm
A link to pronunciating italian numbers

http://italian.about.com/od/pronunciation/a/italian-alphabet.htm
The italian alphabet