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                                        Code Switching Swiftie By Delany Barrera  ENGL-3360-90L-Fall2023   We all love or know at least one Taylor Swift song. She I never would have deeply thought the critically acclaimed pop-artist/country singer would have come so far since “ Picture to Burn”  to now “august”. Over time the country singer has now debut with other genres such as country, pop,  and now alternative. Now one thing that linguists have noticed is Swifts accent has changed since she established her iconic “ But she wears short skirts/ I wear t-shirts./ She’s cheer captain/ And I’m on the bleachers” to now her pop hit Karma . “Karma is the guy on the screen coming straight home to me.”   Language is important for all of us in order to communicate and in music we can see the beautiful side of storytelling. Just how Taylor Swift has changed her perspective from country to pop, her music is still filled with melodic lyrics. Like everything else, time has changed social norms an

                                                        Self Regulation                                                       By Delany Barrera   ENGL-3360-90L-Fall2023                                                Although the article is short in length the message is loud and clear. Reading different research studies found that within the group of children  from low-income families, those who spoke a second language in the home  scored better in  cognitive and standardized tests  than their monolingual peers. As referred to Science Daily " Self-regulation promotes early language and literacy development." It is important to understand that through the observations of how many languages a child can speak can affect their predisposition in education. How does speaking more than one language affect learning? Well when a student is able to code-switch, self-regulate, and have cognitive advancements,  students have promoted early language development. The studies were based on