A Story by A love for poetry Write your chosen Essay 2 topic here: B) Trudgen argues that world view is as important as language when communicating in an intercultural context. Discuss this claim in relation to beginning students
Patricia Bizzell wrote her hypothesis on: What Happens When Basic Writers Come to College. She explains basic writers as: "those who are least well prepared for college"; giving these writers the name "outlanders" for their outlandishness. This outlandishness given by Bizzlle; is understood in the form in which a "freshman" writer, tries to interpret the course material in their written essays or thesis. For a least well-prepared student in their debut of university; this makes for some very daunting times. As this thesis will discover; the importance of language; modes of communication and influences of [held] world views; in a freshman 's adjustment into university culture. Often seen as a "clash among dialects".
What Bizzell calls the "clash among dialects" refers to the distance between a student’s home dialect; [common word usage], and standard English [university word usage]. This "clash" alone bears a great amount of difficulty; what really compounds this situation further is "world view". As Defined by Hobson: "A world view is the primary conceptual framework within which our beliefs, values, attitudes and assumptions about ourselves and others are held". Depending on the educational influence of the students background or "world view"; greatly determines the amount of "clash" [distance], between the two dialects. A dialect in this case, is given to the: “common word usage” of the student; vs. “university word usage” or Standard English.
In this sense, worldview plays a vital role for the newly university learner; making the adjustment from their common or home "word usage" to "university" [standard English] word usage. As Samavor & Porter state: "world views, again like culture are automatic and
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