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Unit 1: Language as a process

Assignment 01 (Discussions)

Instructions: Use the online Discussion forum to submit this assignment.

Assignment 01
Year Mark: 20%
Tool: Discussions
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Check your assessment plan document under the Additional Resources for Unit 0. You will find a
document for Semester 1 and a document for Semester 2 which will have suggested start dates, and
due dates for each assignment. Make sure you look at the document for the correct semester.
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How do you upload this assignment? Go to the Discussions tool, by clicking on the tool
in the left hand panel of this webpage. Look under “ Assignment 1” and Click to open
up the Forum. Click again under topic “Assignment 1” Do not create your own topic

You will see a message about your instructions to go to the topic “Assignment 01”.
Click ‘Reply’ under J Nene and type your assignment in the message box. When you
finished the assignment. scroll down and click ‘publish’. For comments on other posts
you will need to go to that specific post you want to comment, press reply and add your
comment in the message box again. Then click ‘Publish’

Do not copy any text or even one sentence from other student’s assignment,
from the internet or from any other source. It is called plagiarism and you will
be punished with a 0% mark for that assignment and be handed to a disciplinary
hearing. All statements that are not your won should be properly referenced

Assignment

Task 1

Discuss your linguistic identity in terms of your linguistic environment with reference to:
“Whenever we use language we reflect who we are.”

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For example, your linguistic background will be that you were raised within linguistic
environment where you used a specific language (e.g: IsiZulu – i.e. at home and
English - i.e. at school), then now you find yourself in a different linguistic environment
where you need to use Sesotho and/or Afrikaans, which may change your linguistic
environment because you now use isiZulu at home, English at work and Sesotho/
Afrikaans with some friends and colleagues socially.

• Do you think your Linguist Identity changes because of this?

• Why do you think so?
• Which Language will now dominate your thinking and world view?
• Will this affect your cultural believes and Identity and why?

Task 2

Based on the above now read the posts of at least 6 people and comment on their post
in terms of whenever we use language we reflect who we are.

Your main discussion should be structured in terms of the Rubric for "Assessing
Discussion Forums" found under Additional Resources. The assignment must contain
an introduction (10%), where you refer to your language background, body (20%)
where you discuss your linguistic identify with reference to examples from your day to
day life and a conclusion (20%) of how your linguistic environment contribute to who
you are today.

(Task 1= 50% Task 2=50%)

Your discussion should have a minimum of 500 words or more. The comments to other
students must not be an assessment of their work but rather an interpretation of who
they are in terms of their linguistic identity. Each comment should therefore be a
paragraph of at least 100 words.

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