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ASPECTS OF WRITTEN LANGUAGE

Mini-presentations

Mini-presentations will take place in week 8. Although these will not be assessed, they are a way for you to practice researching and displaying your knowledge on one particular area of the course. 

The presentations will either be individual presentations of no more than 5 minutes, or 2-3 person team presentations of no more than 8-10 minutes. You will be required to use visual aides during the presentation (e.g. PowerPoint, Keynote).

Students will receive a credit for satisfactory completion of this presentation. The credit is equivalent to a 20-25% reduction in word length of the final assignment. This means for those students who must complete a 4,000 word final assignment, the word-length will be reduced to 3,000 words. For those students who must complete a final assignment of 2,500 words, this will be reduced to 2,000 words. If the teacher deems the presentation to unsatisfactory, the credit will not be given.

Topics:

Students must choose one modern language and discuss the writing system(s) used to represent this language:

  1. Arabic
  2. Hebrew
  3. Aramaic
  4. Korean
  5. Greek
  6. Russian or other Cyrillic
  7. Thai
  8. Burmese
  9. Tamil
  10. Hindi or other Devanagari
  11. Chinese
  12. Ancient Egyptian
  13. Armenian
  14. Japanese (focus on kana)
  15. Braille
  16. Tibetan
  17. Ancient Phoenician
  18. Ancient Cuneiform
  19. Ancient Mayan
  20. Burmese
  21. Written forms of sign language
  • a.     Stokoe notation
  • b.     SignWriting
  • c.     Si5s
  • d.     ASL-phabet
Languages that use the Roman alphabet may also be chosen, so long as the student focuses on aspects of the written language that are different to how it is used to represent the English language.
  • Irish
  • Czech
  • Danish etc.

What to present on:

In the presentation, students can can cover any of the following

1.     Origin of the writing system (and language)

2.     Relationships with other written languages

3.     Comparisons with aspects of written English

4.     Unique aspects or features of the writing system

5.     Issues of incorporating language and IT

6.     Issues of literacy and the language

7.      How the writing system represents linguistic units of the language
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