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Understanding</a><span class="divider"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></span></li><li><span>Language learning and intercultural understanding</span></li></ul><div id="std-sidebox-task-added-msg"></div><section id="main-content"><div class="intro-card" readonly="false"><img class="intro-image" readonly="true" src="/media/ib/ibcp/translation-4620781_640(1).jpg" style="width: 250px; height: 141px;" /><div class="content" readonly="true"><h3 class="heading">Why does language learning matter so much?</h3><p class="text">This page takes a step back for students to consider language development, language acquisition and linguistic skills in a broader more conceptual way that links directly to their personal development, intercultural understanding and effective communication skills development in Personal and Professional Skills. As ever, an individual's relationship with language is unique and being more explicit in the processes and influences involved can lead to far more self-awareness.</p></div></div><div class="panel panel-orange"><div class="panel-heading"><a class="expander pull-right" href="#"><span class="fa fa-plus"></span></a><div><p>The wider significance of the way we speak</p></div></div><div class="panel-body"><div><h5>'The way you speak reflects where you come from but it can also reflect where you want to be'.</h5><p>This short film from T<strong>he BBC World Service series: Deeply Human</strong>, considers the broad question of why people speak the way they do, and how this develops and changes over time. Whilst this is a summary of ideas, it raises important questions for students about where they are at with language development, acquisition and skills in their studies but also in their wider context. The questions that follow are intended to make them think and consider multiple perspectives as everyone will have a different response or take on the questions.</p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/XDyfEUeFTBk" width="640"></iframe></p><h6><a href="Browse server to select file" target="_blank" title="Discussion"><img class="ico" src="img/materials/discussion-24.png" style="vertical-align: middle" /> </a>Discussion points</h6><p>One suggestion here is to let students consider the questions individually before coming together with a partner to discuss them. Perhaps they can write them down so they can chart what they really thought at the start of the discussion and whether this changed by the end. Not only is this a good thinking process, it also ensures that everyone has a say and opinion before possibly being influenced by others.</p><h6>Talking with a partner, respond to these questions and points from the brief film.</h6><div class="yellowBg"><div class="dottedBox"><h6><yt-formatted-string aria-hidden="true" class="segment-text style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" tabindex="-1"> Do you want to modify your speech for any reason, or do you feel that the way in which you speak is just fine?</yt-formatted-string></h6></div><div class="dottedBox"><h6>In what way does the way you speak reflects where you come from? In what way does it also reflect where you want to be?</h6></div><div class="dottedBox"><h6>How does the way you speak tell a story about so many different aspects of your life? Does it reflect at all how much you want to identify with one particular group of people?</h6></div><div class="dottedBox"><h6>Do you sometimes change the way you speak to fit the situation that you’re in or who you’re with?</h6></div><div class="dottedBox"><h6>Do you change the way you speak from context to context? In what way might the way people speak lead to discrimination and cause them to try to alter the way they talk?</h6></div><div class="dottedBox"><h6>What is your linguistic heritage? And do you value your linguistic heritage?</h6></div><h6></h6></div><section class="tib-hiddenbox"><div class="style-scope ytd-transcript-search-panel-renderer" id="body"><ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-search-panel-renderer"><div class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer" id="segments-container"><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"><div class="segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" role="button" tabindex="0"><div aria-hidden="true" class="segment-start-offset style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" tabindex="-1"><div class="segment-timestamp style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer"></div></div><p>Transcript of short film.</p><section class="tib-hiddenbox"><div class="style-scope ytd-video-meta-block" id="byline-container"><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope ytd-compact-video-renderer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1O5k7BmcXQ" rel="nofollow"><ytd-channel-name class="style-scope ytd-video-meta-block" id="channel-name"><ytd-badge-supported-renderer class="style-scope ytd-channel-name" system-icons=""> </ytd-badge-supported-renderer> </ytd-channel-name> </a></div><div class="style-scope ytd-video-meta-block" id="metadata-line"><a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope ytd-compact-video-renderer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1O5k7BmcXQ" rel="nofollow"><span class="style-scope ytd-video-meta-block"></span></a></div></section><p>https://youtu.be/XDyfEUeFTBk 'Deeply Human: Why you talk the way you do'</p><p>The quesitons above are taken from the points raised in the video.</p><p><yt-formatted-string aria-hidden="true" class="segment-text style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" tabindex="-1">Everyone speaks in the manner that they do because they seek the respect of those who they wish will respect them.</yt-formatted-string></p></div></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"> </ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"><div class="segment-timestamp style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer"><yt-formatted-string aria-hidden="true" class="segment-text style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" tabindex="-1">The way you talk begins from when you’re young.</yt-formatted-string></div></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"><div class="segment-timestamp style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer"><yt-formatted-string aria-hidden="true" class="segment-text style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" tabindex="-1"><strong>Aaron Dinkin, Linguist</strong>:When you're very young, you kind of acquire the structure of how language works, including accent, including pronunciation, first from your caregivers [...] and then later in childhood and adolescence in the context of your peer group.</yt-formatted-string></div></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"><div class="segment-timestamp style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer"><yt-formatted-string aria-hidden="true" class="segment-text style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" tabindex="-1"><strong>John Baugh, Academic and Linguist: </strong>You begin to recognise that you live in a world where some people speak like you do and other people speak differently. And then you have a decision to make. Do you want to modify your </yt-formatted-string></div></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"><div class="segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" role="button" tabindex="0"><yt-formatted-string aria-hidden="true" class="segment-text style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" tabindex="-1">speech for any reason, or do you feel that the way in which you speak is just fine? The way you speak reflects where you come from but it can also reflect where you want to be.</yt-formatted-string></div></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"><div class="segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" role="button" tabindex="0"></div></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"><div class="segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" role="button" tabindex="0"><yt-formatted-string aria-hidden="true" class="segment-text style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" tabindex="-1"><strong>Katie Harris, Founder, Joy of Languages: </strong> They tell a story about so many different aspects of our life, location… class and even potentially how much you want to identify with one particular group of people.</yt-formatted-string></div><div class="segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" role="button" tabindex="0"></div></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"><div class="segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" role="button" tabindex="0"><yt-formatted-string aria-hidden="true" class="segment-text style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" tabindex="-1"><strong>John Baugh, Academic and Linguist:</strong> That's why you can have two siblings from the same household, and as adults, one chooses a linguistic path of trying to endear themselves to the wealthy, and the other sibling chooses to hang out at the pub </yt-formatted-string></div></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"><div class="segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" role="button" tabindex="0"><yt-formatted-string aria-hidden="true" class="segment-text style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" tabindex="-1">with locals and they're just fine speaking in that manner. You sometimes change the way you speak to fit the situation that you’re in or who you’re with.</yt-formatted-string></div><div class="segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" role="button" tabindex="0"></div></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"><div class="segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" role="button" tabindex="0"><yt-formatted-string aria-hidden="true" class="segment-text style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" tabindex="-1"><strong>Aaron Dinkin, Linguist: </strong>People use the linguistic features that are associated with the identities that they want to perform, and that can change from context to context. But the way you speak can also lead to discrimination and this can cause you to try to alter the way you talk.</yt-formatted-string></div><div class="segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" role="button" tabindex="0"></div></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"></ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><ytd-transcript-segment-renderer class="style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer"><div class="segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" role="button" tabindex="0"><yt-formatted-string aria-hidden="true" class="segment-text style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" tabindex="-1"><strong>John Baugh, Academic and Linguist: </strong>In an ideal world, everyone's linguistic heritage would be valued. 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