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Source:  from  https://youtu.be/N_gM_GNU0Rw Last visited: October 15th Hedging is" the expression of tentativeness and possibility"   It is important because:   1.       It allows the writer to submit new arguments/claims while acknowledging there that might be other, equally valid points of view. 2.        It allows the writer to make a new contribution to their field in a productive and cooperative way. 3.       It allows the writer to have the flexibility to avoid making absolute/categorical statements which claim that the writer/researcher has found the perfect and only answer, hedging allows the writer/researcher to offer something new and establish him/herself as a possible authority on a topic, while leaving room for other voices and perspectives. 4.       It allows the writer to participate on ongoing conversations in fields where new evidenc...

  Refugee policies, the advantages and disadvantages of opening the borders According to the United Nations, the percentage of refugees has largely increased in the past years, right now there are 26 million refugees globally. Nearly 42% of them were under the age of eighteen. The majority of these refugees come from just five countries; which are Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Myanmar. Millions of them have been denied access to basic rights (such as freedom, healthcare and education) and a new and safer nationality. From an ethical point, all countries should accept refugees on their land. However, it is not news to say that this is not the case. There are many opinions on the fact, this is not a black or white situation. But on the whole, there are two options,   a government can be: either in favor of accepting refugees in their country or against. In order to establish their position on the matter, governments are going to consider a long list of advantage...

Part 1   We refugees    We Refugees | A Benjamin Zephaniah Poem  from  Red Café  on  Vimeo . We Refugees I come from a musical place Where they shoot me for my song And my brother has been tortured By my brother in my land. I come from a beautiful place Where they hate my shade of skin They don’t like the way I pray And they ban free poetry.   I come from a beautiful place Where girls cannot go to school There you are told what to believe And even young boys must grow beards.   I come from a great old forest I think it is now a field And the people I once knew Are not there now.   We can all be refugees Nobody is safe, All it takes is a mad leader Or no rain to bring forth food, We can all be refugees We can all be told to go, We can be hated by someone For being someone.   I come from a beautiful place Where the valley floods each year And each year the hurricane tells ...

The study of Language .  ( Yule, G.  2010). Unit 1 & 2 LEE 4 - GROUP 8 - UNIT 1 & 2 de AgostinaSanguinetti Unit 1 This unit will deal with different theories about the origins of language. It is uncertain to provide specific explanations about this topic as there are several speculations on it. We, humans, are able to produce sounds, a feature that we share with all vertebrates and it is located in an ancient part of the brain. Regarding the attempts to explain the real origin of language Yule will mention six sources that developed different theories which dealt more with how humans produce speech rather than how spoken language truly originated. These theories are:  The “divine” source. The “natural sound” view. The “social interaction” view. The “physical adaptation” view.  The “tool-making” view. And the “innateness hypothesis”. Unit 2 This unit will, mainly, compare animal and human language. Yule establishes that communication cannot be...

Step #1 & #2 Systemic functional linguistics de AgostinaSanguinetti  and Florencia Franco Step #3 Cargando… Step #4 SFL in a EFL context Metacognitive analysis The topic that caught almost all of my attention of this entry was genre. I realized that it was a topic that was hardly even mention in my English lessons at school. I became more aware of genre at the profesorado. While reading the texts and watching the videos from this entry I was able to notice how much easier a genre and function focused approach could be for students. Perhaps the word is not precisely easier but, actually, more functional for communicative purposes. I consider all the material very informative, but I would have liked it to provide more clear examples of how to implement the genre-based model of language at the classroom.  

  Entry #7 de AgostinaSanguinetti  and Florencia Franco Source:   https://youtu.be/ka_BSL2hs-g   https://youtu.be/xoPKi23meC8 https://youtu.be/eT5c9zXtDNI https://youtu.be/gzRJ42JxCwA https://youtu.be/rg3HooJh0D0 Last visited July 14th 2020 University of leeds,”Academic Writing”,(N.D.). Adapted from  https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/14011/writing/106/academic_writing/3 Last visited: July 27th, 2020 Metacognitive Analysis  It is a key factor, when writing, to take into consideration every step (pre-writing, during writing and post-writing) and all the processes within them. When you are organized and conscious about all the aspects you need to be paying attention to, like topic, grammar, the reader, etc.; it is more likely that you will have as a finish product a well-constructed and clear piece of writing. As teachers it is our role to provide our students with this kind of strategies and techniques, so they can use them not only to accomplish the tas...