This week, I continued to study for my mid-term exam. There were a lot of English-related studying going on since I am an English major. First, I learned about ancient alphabets and how they were pronounced, grammar and vocabularies. I feel blessed to have been born in the 1990's because I found the ancient English very hard. There are wierd looking alphabets I can not comprehend and the grammar rules are more complicated than English spoken today. Also, I studied the pattern of second language acquisition. It was interesting to see all the theories related to it. I felt like all of them had both positive and negative sides to them. As a person who is currently learning French, it was interesting and helpful to see those theories. Also, I was involved in the film project to check other people's etiquette. A lot of people were very nice in the experiements, although we secrelty and purposefully dropped things infront of them. It felt really good to know that the world is still a nice place to live in.

① 사용한 장소 : 집에서 자주 사용했습니다! ② 사용시간 : 하루에 20~30분 정도 사용했습니다. 주로 아침 학교 오기 전에 사용하거나 등굣길에 사용했습니다. ③ 사용한 어플리케이션 : 워드킹 ④ 학습방법과 느낀점 : 워드킹의 학습방법은 바로 나만의 단어장을 만드는 것 자체입니다! 자신이 잘 몰랐거나 중요하다고 생각하는 단어를 단어장에 추가하면서 단어를 익히는 것이 학습방법입니다. 이것 말고도 워드킹은 많은 장점을 가지고 있는 어플입니다. 첫째, 앞에서 언급했듯이 나만의 단어장을 만들어 수시로 학습할 수 있고, 둘째, 다른 워드킹 유저가 만든 단어장 리스트를 다운 받아서 내가 학습하는데 사용할 수 있으며, 셋째, 간단한 예문이 첨부되어 있어 단어를 기억하기 쉽습니다. 마지막으로, 추가 결제나 내부 결제, 평가판이 전혀 존재하지 않는 완전 무료 어플이라는 사실이 워드킹의 장점입니다! 한 가지 아쉬운 사실은 애플 운영체제에선 워드킹이 안 된다는게 아쉽습니다... 물론 저는 안드로이드라서 지금까지 유용하게 사용하고 있습니다 :) ⑤ 별점 : ★★★★☆

I had to start preparing for my mid-term exams this week, so I didn't do any additional English studying! Instead, I needed to study English for my mid-terms since I am majoring in English education. This week, we learned about the processes babies and infants go through in acquiring their first language as well as second language. There are mainly three positions that linguists hold. The behaviorism perspective, the innatist perspective and the cognitive/developmental persepective. I personally agree with the cognitive/developmental perspective since it hold a very netural point of view that's inbetween the other two perspectives. It is truly amazing how children very naturally learn language or even languages. I don't remember how I learned language myself which is so amazing consider how hard a time I had when I learned English. Anyways, I hope to understand and memorize succesfully and to get a good grade in the mid term exams.