Portfolio Semester 1 2023
, Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………….3
Purpose and structure……………………………………………………………3
2. FIRST PORTFOLIO ACTIVITY: PERSONAL LANGUAGE STORY………3
First Portfolio Activity: Reflection Icebreaker blog entry
Reflection…………………………………………………………………………..3
3. SECOND PORTFOLIO ACTIVITY……………………………………………..5
My Family Tree…………………………………………………………………...5
Group identification and language………………………………………………5
4. PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENT: CULTURAL CEREMONY……………………7
4.1 Introduction…………………………………………………………………...7
4.2 Cultural ceremony / occasion……………………………………………….7
4.2.1 Explain the social gathering…………………………………………8
4.2.2 What is happening in the photo? How it reflects something
important in your culture?............................................................9
4.2.3 What did you learn from this in terms of yourself (who you are)
and your culture or social group?...............................................9
4.2.4 Personal refection…………………………………………………..9
4.2.5 My own opinion…………………………………………………….10
5. FINAL REFLECTION…………………………………………………………..10
5.1 What have I learned from this course about language…………………10
5.1.1 How language influences who I am and how I act ……………..10
5.1.2 How I have changed my view of language use during the course
of this module……………………………………………………….11
5.2 Ubuntu………………………………………………………………………11
5.2.1 Process of language usage [Unit1]………………………………11
5.2.2 Where we acquire language [Unit 3]…………………………….12
5.2.3 Use of language in interpersonal relationships to strengthen the
feeling of belonging [Unit 4]……………………………….. ………12
5.2.4 My own point of view………………………………………………..12