VIDEOTECA ACESIN
Welcome to Videotech A!
Videotech A was created after we watched a cool YouTube video about Saussure put together by Professor Silvia Foschiera's team at UNISINOS. If you click on that link you will see that it is a simple video with footage of a group of kids at different ages and a few adults, answering the very same question about linguistic arbitrariness. It is not a controlled experiment, but just a clever way of disclosing an aspect of nature, in this case, kids' awareness about how they acquire words, in a very ecological and spontaneous way. Watching those answers, one after another, with no interruption and no comments is *very* formative and inspiring to viewers. It led us to think about creating VideotechA to expand on that simple idea. We want to provide viewers with a deductive and panoramic view of different aspects and stages of language acquisition. We believe that the videos we will deposit at VideotechA may provide a starting point from which to research deeper and wider aspects about what kids know and don't know about language. We hope it is inspirational. We also intend to start an integration with other researchers that may use and might want contribute to Videotech A or just leave their ideas in the blog. After the kickstart given to us by the "Saussure video", we've been developing our own ideas about how to structure Videotech A and the results will *soon* be ready and posted right here with free access to everyone.
Videotech A was created after we watched a cool YouTube video about Saussure put together by Professor Silvia Foschiera's team at UNISINOS. If you click on that link you will see that it is a simple video with footage of a group of kids at different ages and a few adults, answering the very same question about linguistic arbitrariness. It is not a controlled experiment, but just a clever way of disclosing an aspect of nature, in this case, kids' awareness about how they acquire words, in a very ecological and spontaneous way. Watching those answers, one after another, with no interruption and no comments is *very* formative and inspiring to viewers. It led us to think about creating VideotechA to expand on that simple idea. We want to provide viewers with a deductive and panoramic view of different aspects and stages of language acquisition. We believe that the videos we will deposit at VideotechA may provide a starting point from which to research deeper and wider aspects about what kids know and don't know about language. We hope it is inspirational. We also intend to start an integration with other researchers that may use and might want contribute to Videotech A or just leave their ideas in the blog. After the kickstart given to us by the "Saussure video", we've been developing our own ideas about how to structure Videotech A and the results will *soon* be ready and posted right here with free access to everyone.