Reflection

This reflection has been written with the intention of not only providing the

important features of the text “The English Language” but also the features of the

summary that I wrote about that text.

In “The English Language” textis explained in a very detailed way the history of the

English language, its influences and development throughout the history; moreover, the

English language is also compared to other languages and also with different stages of its

own history such as old English compared to modern English. This Text is completely

useful for both, teachers and students, especially those students that are taking English

Culture and Lexical Analysis courses.

As a future English language teacher, I strongly believe that, not only is important

to know about phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, but also about

the historical context about the language, its influences, and changes through the history.

This information is the one that allows us to build a connection with it and to understand

in a better way the language that we are trying to learn and at the same time, the

language that we will teach.

In terms of the contribution of the text to the Lexical Analysis course is

fundamental, because of the quality of the contents that we can find in it, which will allow

us to achieve some of the specific objectives of the course, such as, characterize different

periods in the history of the English language, through comparisons between the different

stages as I mentioned before, in which ones the differences are clearly marked by specific

changesin the structure of the words and the use of the words.

In my personal opinion, the text is very interesting and useful; it allowed me to put

myself in a historical context of the English Language, to understand the meaningful

changes that it has experimented and the different influences that have made possible the

existence of such a beautiful and globalized language. I have the certainty that at the end

of this course, we, as futures teachers will be able to teach not only vocabulary and

expressions related to the language, but also, we will be able to teach the cultural context

of its development and how the language has become what it is today; moreover, this fact

also will improved the understanding and learning process of the students and, also there

is a big chance to improve their motivation, because of the quality of the contents that we

will delivering as teachers, since students will be learning the language from a concrete

base.