Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Homework: BLOG POST #1 (finish by Sunday night, 11:59pm)

HOW TO WRITE YOUR FIRST BLOG POST

Your first BLOG ASSIGNMENT will be making your first blog post.

To post a new message to your blog, go to your Blog Page (“View blog”) and at the top of the page, you can select “New Post”

You can select a Title and then type up your message.  At the end, you will need to “Publish Post” so others can see it!


HOMEWORK: BLOG POST #1 - Your language learner identity
Please write your blog post about your own identity as a language learner.  You are now learning English (academic English) here at LAGCC, but you may have learned other languages in your life.  You learned your first language (mother tongue) as a child.  Did you learn other languages in school or in your community?

Your post should be written like a journal, so you are telling your story (a narrative).  It is NOT an essay format, so you have more freedom in what to write about.

Please consider the following questions/ideas when you write about your own language learner identity:

What languages have you learned?  Which ones are the hardest?  Are you still learning other languages now (besides English)?  Do you want to study another language in classes while you are in college?  Which one(s)?
How do you feel about your reading ability in each of the languages you know?  Which do you prefer to read novels in?  Which do you prefer to use to read things on the Internet?  Which do you prefer for things like Facebook or other social networks?

How do you feel about your writing ability in each of the languages.  What do you prefer to write in for emails or letters to your friends and families? Why?  What language do you prefer to use to write academic things in (essays, lab reports, business documents)? Why?  Do you think your writing ability is much better in your first language? 

What else do you think about your languages and how you use them?


PLEASE POST YOUR BLOG POST #1 BY THE END OF THE DAY SUNDAY (3-20)

3 comments:

  1. i was born here in usa, my mom and dad lived with me, but when i had 2 yesrs old they diceded move to their country ECUADOR. Since that i grew up in ecuador. the days was passing and the language that i was learning was spanish. i lived my whole live in ecuador, i study there my scool and my high school and for that reazon i could say that my mother tongue is "spanish".
    I didn't learn other languajes, but when i was a teenager i was really interested to learn french but it was not posible becouse the language that i've to learn now is english, later i'll try to learn another languege.
    Now i feel i little bit confused in my writting ability but i prefer do everything in english because this is the language that i have to learn if i want a better future..... :(

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  2. Please DON'T post comments here - please post your "Language Learner Identity" posts on YOUR OWN blogs.

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