tame a wild tongue‚ which was written in Spanish as well as English by Gloria‚ expressed her feeling that as a Mexican immigrant but being raised in the U.S. when she facing with culture and social differences. The followings are my rhetorical analysis which focus on her situation background‚ her purpose and claims. At the very beginning of the article‚ she used a metaphor to set up the overall emotion. “Wild tongues can’t be tamed‚ they can only be cut out.”In this sentence‚ ‘Wild tongues’ refer to
Premium Education High school United States
Mothers tongue analysis Profound writer and best-selling novelist Amy Tan is well known for her works which tends to explores mother daughter relationships. In her narrative essay “Mother Tongue” she discusses the discrimination and prejudice opinions on “broken English”. Amy makes the readers realizes how not being an American can not only influence the way we speak English‚ but have an effect on how we handle real life situations. She does so by incorporating her mother’s real life struggles
Premium Rhetoric Second language United Kingdom
remains a second language in Singapore. So parents must be realistic in their expectations. Mr Lee was alluding to the furore which erupted after media reports that the Education Ministry was looking at whether to reduce the weighting of the Mother Tongue Language‚ reports that have since been debunked. Speaking at a dialogue following a Joint Conference of Confucius Institutes in East and Southeast Asia‚ Mr Lee said no one can master two languages at the same level. So if parents want their
Premium Lee Kuan Yew
Issue 1 (22)‚ Volume 8‚ 2009‚ http://www.esp-world.info ROLE OF MOTHER TONGUE IN LEARNING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES Galina Kavaliauskienė Mykolas Romeris University‚ Vilnius‚ Lithuania Abstract A revival of interest to using a mother tongue in the English classroom is stipulated by necessity to improve language accuracy‚ fluency and clarity. This paper aims at examining students’ perceptions of the use of mother tongue and translation in various linguistic situations. The activities that
Premium Language acquisition Second language Language education
Amy Tan’s "Fish Cheeks" and Maya Angelou’s "Champion of the World" Maya Angelou and Amy Tan discuss religious problems and culture differences in their literature. The authors have captured these differences by their past experiences of friends and family. Both authors come from a diverse culture‚ but both face the same harsh society of the American culture and beliefs. The Author’s both tell about situations in their short stories of being outcasts and coming from different racial backgrounds
Premium African American Racism Racial segregation
Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education has been encouraged by United Nations Educational‚ Scientific‚ and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to early childhood and primary education since 1953. Mother Tongue Based Bilingual or Multilingual Education is a program used since 1953 by different countries around the world like Indonesia‚ Cambodia‚ Nepal‚ Philippines and a lot more. This way of teaching is using the child’s first language‚ their mother tongue which is called the L1 in teaching in school
Premium Lingua franca Lingua franca Second language
representation is a touchy subject‚ and Amy Zimmerman is one of the few brave enough to explore the topic. Using a combination of logos‚ pathos and ethos‚ her position on the misrepresentation of bisexuals in TV is ineffective in persuading her audience‚ because of her lack of concrete evidence‚ misdirection of audiences‚ and contradictory statements. To begin‚ Amy made use of logos with data gathered by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation(GLAAD). However‚ Amy interpreted the facts in her favor
Premium Gender Homosexuality LGBT
The importance of language Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” (385-391) makes us aware of our use of language in daily life. In her essay Amy Tan describes how all of the English’s that she grew up with‚ normal English and "mother tongue" English‚ has molded her first view of life. I strongly agree and can definitely relate to Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” (385-391) inferences to language‚ as I also have smart parent’s who are immigrants and am their main source of communication with people who don’t take
Free Second language English language
Rhetorical Analysis: “Mother Tongue” Amy Tan Amy Tan‚ the Author of “Mother Tongue” very well makes the point across about cultural racism without showing any anger or specifically pointing out racism; Amy makes the reader realize how really not being American can affect how well you could handle everyday situations. The fact that this story was written by an immigrant‚ and provides real life stories about her mom and herself struggling in America‚ makes this novel a wonderful eye
Premium English language Mother
backgrounds. Discipline creates a label of parenting‚ by either being critiqued or accepted by others. One parent in particular‚ Amy Chua‚ makes her own label as a strict parent. In Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior by Amy Chua‚ the main focus is to show how Chinese parenting leads to stereotypically successful kids. A critic Victor Sherman assesses that “Chua’s premise that Chinese mothers raise ‘stereotypically successful’ children hinges on a limited definition of success‚ and‚ ultimately‚ this undermines
Premium Childhood Parent Parenting