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Diana is a long time teacher. She begins speak by talking about her grandmother. Her grandma go to school to get information because there is where the information lived. It was in the book and in the teacher’s head. So she needed to go there to get the information. Diana’s father also go to school to get information from teacher. That’s how people learned. Information was being transfered from teacher to students and used in the world. However, when Diana was a kid, she has a lot of encyclopedias in her house, so she didn’t have to go to library to get information.  When Diana started teaching, she went to Kansas where internet was as an educational tool, but she used authentic experience that allowed her students to learn from themselves. She didn’t tell them any ways to do it. Then her students produced something. From Kansas she moved to Arizona to teach middle school students. She interest about eclectic group of kids to work with in a truly public school.  Th...

Patricia is a teacher who has worked in the Gulf state for over 30 years. She has seen lots of changes. She talked about language loss and the globalization of English. A language dies every 14 days. At the same time, English is the undisputed global language. It has morphed from being a mutually beneficial practice to becoming  a massive international business. It has become a bandwagon for every English-speaking nation on earth. According to the latest World University Rankings, in the universities of UK  and US. So everybody wants to have an English education naturally. But who are not from native speaker have to pass a test to take English education naturally.  Parents always focus on English since their early age. They want to give their children the best chance in life. To do that, they need a western education. For instance, Patricia gave an example from her daughter who studied in England has the best grade in science and math class. She believes that wh...

John argues that texting is a miraculous thing, texting is not writing at all. Basically, if people think about langauge, it has existed for may be 150.000 years, at least 80.000 years, it arose as is speech. Writing is something that came along much later.  According to traditional estimates, if humanity had existed for 24 hours, then writing only came along at about 11.07 p.m. Speech came first before writing. Writing has certain advantages, it’s a conscious process. When people write, they can look backward and can do things with language that are much less likely if they’re just talking. Speech is much looser.  Texting is very loose in its structure. Capital letters or punctuation is not paid attention by people. But it structure is not important when people speak. So texting is fingered speech. People can write the way they speak/talk. He believes that phones can be that source to write like people speak. He uses ‘texting slank’ such as “LOL” generally think of ...

Sun Kim was born as a deaf and she believe that sound was not part of her life. But she realize that sounds was very much a part of her life, because she lives in a world of sound. She understand sound by watching people behave and response to sound. In deaf culture, movement is similar as sound. When she visited some museums and gallery in Berlin, Germany, in 2008, she noticed there was no visual art, everything was auditory. So she reclaimed sound into her art practice. She started creating a new body of work. When she presented it to the art community, she got support and appreciated by others. So she realized that sound is like a money, power, control and social currency.  Sun works with many different ASL interpreters, who can support her to be heard. Sound become her new art medium. She delved into the world of music and she saw the similarities between music and ASL. She gave some example of them, which showed the musicality of sign language. ASL is alive and thrivin...

By : Jay Walker Jay Walker starts by talking about manias in the world. Beatlemania, sport mania, religious mania. Jay highlights that mania can be good, can be alarming, or can be deadly. Mania for English is a new mania. In Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, and the most of all, in China. Jay shows photos and videos how Chinese students learn English. Chinese students start to learn English in the third grade by law. In 2009, China become the world largest English speaking country. They learn english because of opportunity for better life, job, able to pay for school, or put better food on the table. The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable, unless we witness it.  English is not tsunami that washing away other languages, but English is the second language in the world. By English someone can become part of a global conversation about global problem. Jay mention other language in the world, such as mathematic is the language of science, music is the lang...

By : Patricia Kuhl Patricia talk about something people can’t see from the babies. The little brain of theirs. The babies and children are geniuses until the age of seven, and then there is a systematic decline. Patricia says to all that babies as “citizens of the world”, because they can discriminate all the sound of all language, no matter what country and what language. That’s very brilliant. An adult cannot do that. Adults only can discriminate the sounds of their own language. Patricia shows a video the different sound of English and Japan. At 6-8 months, the babies are totally equivalent. Two months later, something incredible occurs. The babies in the US are getting better, while babies in Japan are getting worse. Both of those group of babies are preparing for exactly the language that they are going to learn. During this two months, the babies listen intently to adult, and they’re talking statistics as they listen to people talk. Then they listen to two mothers speakin...

  https://www.ted.com/talks/shaolan_learn_to_read_chinese_with_ease Shao Lan was interested by interesting language of China. She started to make Chinese might be useful for learners so she think about fast method to learn Chinese. She learned how to draw every new character every day since the age of five. Chinese people would understand 20000 characters, non Chinese only need 1000 to understand the basic literacy. 40% of literature enough to read sign on the street, menus, and newspaper. Shao only demonstrated 8 characters of Chinese language on the stage. By the first eight radical, it allow us to build 32 characters. By understand how to build character, then start to build phrases.

image : google In this video Jamila announced to others that she is “articulate”. She is able to speak fluently at home with her father and her mother, at school with her professor, and with her boy and friends in the classroom. She has decided to treat all three of her languages as equal, because she is articulate.  The audiences raised a big laugh when she pointed out’ “You may think it is ignorant to speak broken English, but even articulate Americans sound foolish to the British.” One time when her professor comes and says “Hello”, she stoped him and say “Noooo... You’re being inarticulate... the proper way is to say “what’s good”. Jamila also said that the language has rules, because when her mom talk to her in incorrect grammar, she said to her mommy that the sentence is not following the law.  She is a tri-lingual orator, she consistent with her language now. Sometimes she fight back two tongues while she used the other one in the classroom. when she...

TED.com Terry Moore : Why is ‘x’ the unknown Most of people already known the letter ‘x’ is represent something that unknown. In math, ‘x’ is to tell that a variable is unknown. Also it letter everywhere in the culture, for examples : x-files, project-x, TEDx. Why is the letter ‘x’ represent unknow ? About six years ago, Terry decided to learn Arabic, a supremely logical language. He said that when write Arabic language is like crafting an equation, because every part is extremely precise and contain a lot of information. May be this is why everything we know as science, mathematics have its derivations in Arabic language system, most notably, Al-Jabra (Algebra). The Arabic text containing mathematical wisdom finally made the way to Europe, which is to say Spain, in the 11th and 12th century. There was tremendous interest in translating this wisdom into a European language. The unknown in Arabic is called syaiun, which means something, some undefined thing.  But the pro...