2.5 What I have learned

The final activity of this section is designed to help you review, consolidate and reflect on what you have learned in this unit. You will revisit the key learning points of the unit and the initial thoughts you noted down before commencing your study of it.

Activity 8

Before finishing your work on this unit, please look below at what you wrote in Activity 1, where we asked you to take some notes on what you already knew in relation to the key learning points of the unit.

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Original location 1

Compare your notes from before you studied this unit with what you have learned here and add to these notes as you see fit to produce a record of your learning.

Here are the key learning points again for you as a reminder:

  • Scots as a living language
  • Scots words which have been repurposed for the modern world
  • Neologisms in Scots
  • The influence of other languages on Scots and of Scots on English.

2.4 Links to other languages

Further research