Why I'm in this Class

Hi, I'm Steven. I've taken Spanish for many years, and I'm pretty much fluent. I love traveling so I've been exposed to many more languages as well. I've loved psychology for a long time, and ever since I read The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker I've taken a particular affinity to language. I love language learning, language use, so this course jumped out at me as just about perfect. I plan to major in psychology and I'm interested in doing research, perhaps with professor Fernald and her child language development lab. I'm also interested in the rhetoric aspect of this course, and how different institutions develop their approach to specific words to influence others. The "prune" example was a good example of this.

My Map

create your own visited country map

Testing Things Out

Because I don't have the assignment right in front of me, I'm just going to do a quick test blog to see how it shows up.