MLO 2: Linguistics
When looking at language we can realize how much the linguistics aspects are key to the development of the language itself. Linguistics gives us a window of opportunity to see how a language is spoken from the different sounds words make and how the mouth is capable of creating such sounds. When looking at courses that fulfill my major learning outcomes I can take into consideration the diverse classes I was enrolled in at this institution. When looking at my first linguistics course (Ling 392: Nature of language and language acquisition) we learned multiple things that break down how language works. One major that embodies the linguistic major learning outcome was my Written Language Analysis Project in which I transcribed a video and recorded 50 utterances in which we noted how the person in our video spoke English noting the instance where we noticed accent differences and challenges the subject faced. This project helped me analyze how someone speaks in the language they learned and how the mother tongue affects speech patterns. A secondary course that I was enrolled in that helped me analyze speech patterns and language differences was (Span 313: Intro to Spanish Linguistics). One major assignment that embodied this same spirit of language acquisition and linguistic differences was analyzing the way in which Spanish is spoken in a Latin American country, in this case analyzing differences of the Spanish language in Puerto Rico. A third course that also focused on the linguistic aspects of the Spanish language was (Span 345:Bilingualism in the Spanish Speaking world). An assignment that focused on the linguistic aspects of the language was the characterization of the phonemes and graphemes of various words. All of these courses fulfilled my linguistic major learning outcome by helping me view language differently and looking beyond the literature and the art that is offered regarding Hispanic cultures.