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Homer Simpson ¿Académico de la Lengua?

La exclamación “D’oh!” (en español “¡Ouch!” ) de Homer Simpson ha sido votada como la mayor aportación de la serie a la lengua inglesa, según la compañía inglesa de traducción ”Today Translations”.

La expresión la utiliza Homer para no emplear la palabrota “Damnation!” (¡Maldición!) cuando algo le sale mal. Se supone que esta interjección se inspira en una exclamación muy utiliza por un actor cómico del cine mudo, Jimmy Finlayson.

Esta expresión aparece insertada en el Oxford English Dictionary con la definición “Palabra que expresa frustración al darse cuenta de que las cosas salieron mal o no como estaban planeadas, o cuando uno hizo o dijo algo tonto”.

Pero Los Simpson han influido en el idioma con otras muchas expresiones. Una de las más conocidas “Eat my shorts!” (traducida al castellano como ¡Multiplícate por cero!). Y es que el lenguaje de la televisión influye mucho en el uso diario de la lengua. ¿Recuerdas alguna frase que haya nacido en la televisión y se utilice normalmente en la calle?

Fuentes y más información:

http://www.ansa.it/ansalatina/notizie/fdg/201003251100371504/201003251100371504.html

http://www.thesimpsons.com/

Lengua y Literatura expandida (2010). [Online blog]. Retrieved May 29, 2012, from the World Wide Web:   http://trivium20.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/87/

WEB 1.0 Vs WEB 2.0

Web 1.0

The Web 1.0 (1991-2003) is the most basic form that exists, with text browsers fast enough. Then came the HTML web pages became ​​more pleasant to look at, and the first graphical browsers such as IE, Netscape, Explorer (old versions, etc.). Web 1.0 is read-only. The user can not interact with the content of the page (no comments, answers, quotes, etc.), being entirely limited to what the Web master up to it.

It also refers to a state of the World Wide Web, and any website designed with an earlier style of the phenomenon of Web 2.0.

Web 2.0

It is a loosely defined intersection of web application features that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in asocial media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, etc.

INTERNET AND WORLD WIDE WEB

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (often called TCP/IP, although not all applications use TCP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support email.

Today, the Internet is a public, cooperative, and self-sustaining facility accessible to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. 

The most widely used part of the Internet is the World Wide Web (often abbreviated "WWW" or called "the Web"). Its outstanding feature is hypertext, a method of instant cross-referencing 

World Wide Web

It is a collection of Internet resources (such as hyper-linked text, audio, and video files, and remote sites that can be accessed and searched by browsers based on standards such as HTTP and TCP/IP. Also called "the web", it was created in 1989 by the UK physicist Tim Berners-Lee while working at the European Particle Physics Laboratory  in Switzerland, as an easier way to access information scattered across the Internet.

It is important to know that this is not a synonym for the Internet. The World Wide Web, or just "the Web," as ordinary people call it, is a subset of the Internet. The Web consists of pages that can be accessed using a Web browser. The Internet is the actual network of networks where all the information resides. 

COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING

It is perceived as a teaching and learning approach where the main source used is the computer. This could be by using it as a way of exchanging knowledge (by students) or creating activities that will be printed (by teachers). 

Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) may be defined as the search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and learning (Levy, 1997, p.1).

COLLABORATIVE & COOPERATIVE LEARNING

Cooperative Learning

It is an useful teaching approach that consists in organizing group activities where students not only construct their own learning but also help their classmates to do the same.  This is accomplish by interacting and sharing what every one knows by  asking one another for information, evaluating one another’s ideas, monitoring one another’s work  in order to improve  everyone knowledge. In this kind of learning teachers become learners as well, even though they still control the process.   

Ross and Smyth (1995) describe successful cooperative learning tasks as intellectually demanding, creative, open-ended, and involve higher order thinking tasks.

Collaborative Learning

More than a teaching approach it is a personal philosophy in which students basically , by working in small groups, accomplish a specific goal. In this learning, the activities through which students develop new knowledge are a little bit freer since this is based on their own abilities and experiences. This learning applies  in the classroom, at committee meetings, with community groups, within their families and generally as a way of living with and dealing with other people.

"Collaborative learning is based on the idea that learning is a naturally social act in which the participants talk among themselves (Gerlach, 1994). It is through the talk that learning occurs."

Collaboration is a philosophy of interaction and personal lifestyle whereas cooperation is a structure of interaction designed to facilitate the accomplishment of an end product or goal.