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JAMILIA LYISCOTT – 3 WAYS TO SPEAK ENGLISH

Asslamua'alaikum.. I would like to post the TED note taking, and I think this is the hardest one, so I'm so sorry if I sum up what she said ambiguously.  Jamilia Lyiscott is the woman who is articulated, he can master 3 languages (type of styles in stalking). She is able to adapt her English language in every situation. She  uses different style in speaking with the others,  with her family environment, with her schoolmates, her lecturer, even when she tries to apply job vacancy. she told about her experience being articulated person. There are many people dislike her accents/style in speaking. She told all about her style in speaking is lingusitics beautification. 

SHAOLAN HSUEH – LEARN TO READ CHINESE… WITH EASE

Shaolon Hsueh is the woman who grew up in Taiwan as calligrapher’s daughter. Since she was young, she was introduced Chinese letter by her parents. And now, she wanted introduce the Chinese creature to us as well. She learnt Chinese character about 15 years. In TED stage, she told us fast method how to learn Chinese language. Since the age of 5 she learned how to draw every shape of Chinese language correctly. She taught us the simple one how to recognize Chinese language, for example, there is a shape of Chinese language, it like a tree, it is symbolized as a person. She taught a lot of symbols that can be interpreted as Chinese language which is called as eight characters radical. They are building blocks for you to create lots more characters. She also explained about 32 Chinese character letters in China.

TERRY MOORE – WHY IS THE “X” THE UNKNOWN ?

He has the answer why x the unknown is. It is from Arabic which is the reasons as western science and math was really worked out in the first century. This includes Al-jabra in English algebra. In the Arabic language also contained mathematical wisdom, and it influences Europe (Spain). The problem happened when some sounds in Arabic do not be represented by the characters are available in European language. the letter “SHEEN” it like SH the first word of shalan, it means something (something cannot be defines, unknown thing). Just put AL in Arabic and AL –SHALAN means (the unknown thing). The problem also happened in Spanish scholars who were not be able translating this material due to Spanish does not have SH sound. Thus they created another sound the CK sound. Why the X is unknown? because you cannot say “SH” in Spanish.

PATRICIA RYAN – DON’T INSIST ON ENGLISH

She told about language loss and the globalization of English. Nowadays, languages are dying in every 14 days but in the same time English is an undisputed global language. All the books, journals are done with English. English is taught to modernize the country and to empower the citizens through education. But she does not think so that English is everything. We cannot pursue others any longer till they get English. She reminded us that for taking lot of intelligentsia did not have to have English (like English test, TOEFL test). There are some many people outside there, producing something which is useful, with the great idea. Mind your language and lets spread the great idea. Don’t insist on English. 

PATRICIA KUHL – THE LINGUISTIC GENIUS OF BABY

The baby is genius until the age of seven. The baby all over the world using a techniques to learn language and also sound of language, they can discriminate all sound of all languages. When baby listen all they do is taking statistic which sound that they hear. For example statistic of Japanese and English is very different, there are no L and R in Japanese language, meanwhile English has a lot of L and R. The babies can absorb all the statistic of language, unlikely we as adults, we are no longer to absorb kind of that thing. In this investigating of baby’s brain, s we know they have golden of knowledge to determine all sound and language. We are able to see how child’s brain development. 

KELLY MCGONIGAL – HOW TO MAKE STRESS YOUR FRIEND

Stress is cardiovascular disease, everyone have stress experience in their life. She said that stress is very bad for someone’s health. But she is wondering why stress can make healthier. Finally she knows that oxytocin does not only works in your brain, but also in your body and the roles is to protect cardiovascular system from chronic stress. It also can give benefit to your heart, oxytocin can help heart cells, this stress hormone can heal and make your heart have lots of strengthe than before. Oxytocin is enhanced by social contact and support, so when you try to help people, you will produce this hormone lots, and it can be very useful for your stress become healthier, and it will recover you from the stress. She also said, stress can give us lots of energy due to pounding physical heart. 

JOHN MC WORTHER – TXTNG IS KILLING LANGUAGE

In the distant era now, everyone might be easy to give the information to someone, we have something in our pocket to share and receive a message. So texting become popular now, we can write the way we talk, the way we say, in his opinion writing is fingered speech, we can use very natural sense, between the way we talk and the way we texting, but he told that nowadays,   the way young people in USA texting their friends is so broke the language, for example when someone text someone else with the word ‘LOL” (laughing out loud) it means shat someone is laughing, but LOL in texting is not indicate “laughing out loud” anymore, because it’s evolved into something that is much subtler. LOL always be used in every single texting, he said that it’s marker empathy which is called pragmatic particles in linguistics context. In conclusion he said texting is the new way people writing which is developing by using writing skills. 

DIANA LAUFENBERG - HOW TO LEARN FROM MISTAKES

She told about her experience in teaching over the years, and how to overcome students’ problem and how to teach students well. From Winconsin and move to Arkansas and taught a course which is called American Government, from there she learnt about everything, how to teach student, he got lots experience there. From Arkansas she moved to Arizona, and taught different subject, she taught about Geography. From there she also had great experience. From Arizona he moves to Pennsylvania until now, she teaches there. From the experience that she had over years in teaching, she told that the main point is if we continue to think that education is about coming to school and to get information, then embracing the failure, it means we are missing that the original goals of education. So that is impossible, if we have education with the good quality

CHRISTINE SUN KIM – THE ENCHANTING MUSIC OF SIGN LANGUAGE

She told us about ESL, English Sign Language. In that video, she little bit told the story about her experience as a deaf person who cannot hear the sound but must be living in the area which is the majority is interacting with sound. She tries to watch how people behave and respond to sound. She terms it as sound “etiquette”. She told that in deaf culture movement is also a sound. She told about her experiences when she went to Berlin, Germany in 2008. She went to Art Museum, where was no visual art there, only auditory. Then she decided to reclaim ownership of sound put into her art practice. She started create body of work. When he presented her idea, there were a lot of responds and received. She realized sound is like money, attention, power. Now sound is her new art medium. She surprised knowing sound has similarities with ESL and music. She told that envision of piano is like representative of sound. This represents how time is expressed in ASL. She said that ASL a rich treasur...

JAY WALKER – ENGLISH MANIA

There are a lot of manias in this world, there are sport mania, music mania, religion mania, mania can be useful can be dangerous. The world has new mania, mania for learning English. For example in china, China learns English by screaming the English sentences and shouts the sentences out together. 2 billion in this world learn English. In china you learn English start from 3rd grade by the law. That’s the reason why china is the largest people who speak English. Why English? Because the opportunity for life, for education and for the future. English is not a tsunami which can erase others languages. English is the world second language, you can discuss about world problem or a global conversation. English is language for problem solving. English mania is representing hope for better future.