Summary of the lessons 💭

☝ First session:

The first session of the subject consisted of an introduction of the teacher as well as the contents and methodology to be followed. Moreover, we started a debate on education, tackling subjects such as its definition as well as what it should mean according to us, its current situation in our country, analysing our educational system’s main problems and proposing any changes that we believe appropriate. Thus this lesson served as a warm-up in order to form the general frame in which the contents to be studied will be included.

✌ Second session:

In this session we were supposed to do the presentations of the linguists but we spent the class modifying and reducing the number of slides.

✌☝ Third session:

In this session each group carried out the presentation of the linguists. We listened carefully to each presentation and each group had to assess the performance of two of the groups. Our group did a presentation about Dell Hymes, a paramount figure of linguistics and sociolinguistics. We really enjoyed this session since it was so entertaining and, what is more important, we learnt a lot about other linguists such as Noam Chomsky, Jean Piaget and Mikhail Bakhtin among others.

✌✌ Fourth session:

During this session we have discussed about global language. We have watched a video regarding this topic in which David Crystal a linguist and academic defines English as a global language. After that, we have talked about this in groups and we all have given our opinions. Indeed, we have concluded that English can be considered a global language since it is widely spoken and employed for business and diplomatic relations.