LEVEL 4 - POST 6 - POSTGRADUATE STUDIES (WEEK 8)

Write about a postgraduate course that you would consider taking in the future (220 words)
Include:

- Reasons to do the course
- Subject(s) you would like to studyi
- Where you would like to study (Chile or abroad)
- How you would like to study (distance learning, blended system, part-time course, etc)
- Any other relevant ideas

For the time being I am a bit overwhealmed with projects so I do not see any chance of coming back to uni to pursue a postgraduate degree.

However, in the future I would like to take up on a postgraduate course on Multilinguism and Language Planning, because I believe the future of our nation will need people prepared to do research on the topic of how the establishment will allow languages to coexist or will make them extinguish.

Language Planning is a field within Applied Linguistics, it is a conscious effort to propel the function, structure, or acquisition of languages or language variety within a speech community, it includes government planning, but is also used in a wide range of non-governmental organisations. The goals are diverse but it concentrates mostly on making planning decisions and possibly changes for the benefit of communication.

The is a course I really like which is an integrated programme between The Netherlands and Barcelona in Spain. I’d love to take it there because those are country where multilingualism is a vivid reality.

In the future I think migration and immigration will be situations that will impose new challenges on Chilean society and one of the dimensions for this challenging opportunities to materialize will be Languages and Communication.

ACUERDOS POR PARO

INTRUCTION VIDEO 2 AND BLOGS

Dear all:

The following video is due to next week, however, given that I had very few students today, we have decided to put off the deadline for wednesday 25th May, at the start of the class. The evaluation will be done upon the criteria presented in the previous video activity.

INSTRUCTIONS VIDEO #2 (25-05-2016, START OF CLASS) :

Record a 2 minute mobile phone video presentation* about a journey you would like to make in the future.

Say:

Where you would like to go,

Who you would go with,

Why you would like to make this journey,

What things you would like to do on the journey.

Mention anything else you think is important.

A mobile phone video presentation is a video of the student talking directly to the camera. This activity is seen as part of the learning process. Videos are made in the students’ own time and they are free to practice and record as many versions as they see fit in order to complete the task. However, the final video must be in one take (i.e. they must not be edited). Moreover, you should be able to see the student clearly in the video (i.e. No sunglasses!). If you think that the text is being read you can arrange for the student to re-record it or repeat the talk in class. Please make students aware of this fact.

INSTRUCTIONS BLOG:

Next class all the blogs must be uploaded and in class we will work with blog 6 (Post-Graduate Studies) and blog 7 which is a topic we will have to decide on. Have a lovely week!

Post 5- My Future Job

Post 5- 

My Future Job 

- What kind of job would you like to have? How do you imagine it?

- In an office?

- Outdoors /indoors?

- Would you like to travel a lot in your job?

- What major are you studying / are you thinking of taking?    Explain why

- Add any other related ideas.

- Make comments on 3 of your classmates’ posts

- Word Count: 210 words

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I studied English Linguistics, and I always thought "what would my future job be?". And here I am!!

I wanted to have a fun, light, easy going and not too hard to do job, but always wanted to be with people.

From all the many areas I could work in, I always wanted something neither too-much outdoors nor indoors, furthermore I wanted something that would produce some kind of social change, a good important and deep change.

In other matters, I wanted to travel, to see the world, to meet strange people, well... strange meaning, different than me and my friends and family. With teaching languages, I have been able to do all the former, which leads me to think it was the right choice.

I tried working in an office once, in a job that was not as stressful as a teacher's job but after a year, and after missing the classrooms a lot, I decided to go back to stressful, challenging but rewarding teaching.

Nowadays, I am thinking on taking up on PHD studies in the field of Applied Linguistics, I would like to do it either in the Netherlands, Switzerland and/or England. 

I would like to do it in those countries, well, in the two first ones because they have a long history of successful multilingualism and because they are definitely good at languages. England on the other hand, would be my last choice, and this is because of a fact that gave birth to a joke, that is, - and please, no offense-, but the joke says: "how do you call a person who speaks only one language? […] you call them British"...LOL