The Origins of the English Language reflection

I strongly believe that to get to know, to learn and to teach a new language, it is necessary and almost compulsory to research and look for the origin of that specific language we are trying to adopt, learn or get to know. For centuries now, people from different places have come to establish that languages are a sort of mixture, combination or complementation of several dialects from all over the world that have been changing because of the influence of a variety of factors which are explained in a very simple way in the summary of the same name, uploaded in this website. This summary and the following ones, which were made with a lot of effort and dedication, are more than fundamental to achieve not only the first two specific objectives of this, the Lexical Analysis course, but also a wide spread variety of contents and courses that I have taken so far. It will help you to understand the contents of this course by explaining them through concept maps that are mainly related to a little bit of both objectives one and two wish are: 1) Characterise different periods in the history of the English Language and 2)Characterise word formation processes in the English language. These course objectives mentioned before can be achieved by studying the power point presentation uploaded before, for this summary helped me and it will probably help someone else, to understand and characterise the different processes which are involved in the word formation of the English Language. I am a curious young woman and history, for me, is quite fascinating; maybe that is why I really enjoyed reading this document, because I love English and as an English pedagogy student I believe to be important to get familiar with the very beginnings of this, a worldwide language. And it is an amazing thing! To get to learn the origins of a language, in this case English, which I think, it has a very exciting history, a history that is really worthy to study. Celts, Saxons, Normans and Vikings, fight with heart and soul, and their interactions, their social and linguistic influences on each other, result in different languages; some of them remain, some of them are now extinct and some of them are very important nowadays, and by ‘very important’ I mean a language that is globally used, like English, which has become a world language, a language that is taught as a foreign language in schools all over the globe. Personally, I have always been a huge fan of concept maps, or maybe not only concept maps, but summaries of all kinds; and I truly believe that trying to get the main ideas and adding colour to a summary or a map, can help you and your precious mind when it comes to put your thoughts in order. At least for me that helps; maybe because I am a visual learner.