World of Language

It has still not been defined how human language has emerged. "As a feature of life on earth, language is one of the science's great remaining mysteries" (Knight, Studdert-Kennedy & Hurford, 2000, pg. 1). It is still assumed that one of the first sounds a human has started with the "hum" sound. The fact that human language has emerged from a sound that is similar to the sounds of some animals today still makes us question when did one phenomenon -animal sounds and communication- and the other -human language- have been divided.

A glogster is an online poster with interactive tools that aims to teach learners via all kinds of media -graphics, charts, videos, photographs, links and many more- This week my subject is the evolution of language. As you have read above, it is a very intricate subject that's mechanisms have not been thoroughly figured out. That is why one cannot explain every detail of the evolution of language in one glog. However, as a student of ELT, I have found it very motivating to learn about how language has developped, in other words I loved getting informed about linguistics.


You can find my glogster about the Evolution of Language in this link.
Hope you enjoy it!