Post 7: An Expert on Your Field.

Instructions

Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?

Say:

-Who she/he is. (short biography)

-What she/he has done. (examples of their work)

-Why you like her/him.

-Include his/her image

> About 170 words

>Add comments to at least 3 of your classmates’ blogs

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Example:

The man in the picture is Noam Chomsky, He is a very well known and widely respected Language Scientist. He is american and all his life, he has done research in the areas of grammar and language development among others. The core of his theory lies on that the principles underlying the structure of language are biologically determined in the mind and therefore it is genetically transmitted, in other words, we are born with an innate capability for language development.

He changed my perspectives of why people learn a language, on how people learn it and how can that proces be reproduced in an adult "learning", or moreover, as he says, "acquiring" a foreign language.

He is considered the Father of Modern Linguistics and because of his extensive research, many new methodologies to language study, and also many new areas have been open up, an example of this, is the applications of his language theory into Neuroscience and IT. And still, nowadays, he is a must-study, for every linguistics or language-related-area-student.