INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE DIPLOMA PROGRAMME
ENGLISH A LANGUAGE & LITERATURE SL
WRITTEN TASK 1
Part 2 : Language & Mass Communication (Editorial)
Candidate Name: Ana Cristina Zamudio Cortes
Candidate Number: 001123-_ _ _ _
SESSION: MAY 2014
Teacher : Antony Geralis
ANA CRISTINA ZAMUDIO WRITTEN TASK 1 001123- _ _ _ _
RATIONALE:
During this course we had learned about Language and Mass communication. The Written task purpose is to involve the students to consider the way language is put to use in communication. I focused on the way that language is used in the media. Mass communication involving language in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. Language is used to express ideas in our everyday communication. There for I focused on how stereotypes can affect the people’s decision to travel or what they think about that country.
Therefore explored the Language and how the usage of stereotypes can affect tourism and advertising.This relates to the course because it explains how language can deliberate and usage of Persuasive language to the audience.To present my argument I wrote an Editorial of how the media uses stereotypes to sell ideas about different countries and their fixed stereotypes to different countries and cultures.
This relates to how the media uses these techniques to achieve a manipulation of the audiences to making them believe and think in the generalization of nations and people’s stereotypes by only using some true facts but that might not be general to everyone in that specific country. My Target Audience were people who like traveling but also like to know about different countries. My purpose was to persuade and inform people the types of stereotypes that happen with countries and how that might affect their tourism and the way that people think of that country.
The learning outcome i got from myself