variations people use. I believe Amy Tan opened the essay with this quote to show the audience that the English Language can be used in May forms‚ Many styles ‚ and have different meanings. Everyone speaks‚ writes‚ and reads a different way. 2. Tan speaks in different types of English‚ the "broken/ fractured" English she speaks with her mother and the English she speaks at large group speeches using "carefully wrought grammatical phrases". These divisions are important to Tan because she grew up with understanding
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The reading I will be doing my analysis essay on is “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan. I believe that the audience for this paper will be people who are uncertain about Amy Tan’s perspective in “Mother Tongue”. This audience would benefit from my analysis because they would gain additional perspective on the use and power of language. The analysis may also help to provide them with a more thorough look into the text so that they may find something to relate to their own experiences. This audience may be
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having always to translate‚ while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish‚ and as long as I have to accommodate the English speaker rather than having them accommodate me‚ my tongue will be illegitimate.” It would be a lie if I started to explain how I dealt with the difficulty of this passage‚ because the truth is that I didn’t find anything difficult about Gloria Anzaldúa’s text; no‚ it’s not that I’m the smartest reader out there‚ it’s just that I completely
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Mother Tongue- Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) One of the changes in Basic Education Curriculum brought about by the new K-12 program is the introduction of Mother Tongue- Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) specifically in Kindergarten‚ Grades 1‚ 2 and 3 to support the goal of “ Every Child- A- Reader and A –Writer” by Grade 1.” MTB-MLE refers to “first-language-first” education that is‚ schooling which begins in the mother tongue and transitions to additional languages particularly
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Batay-an‚ Jennifer S. Colingey‚ Rhealyn G. Lim‚ Rolly L. Daluyen‚ Zaldy T. Dackias‚ Ana Leah L. ABSTRACT The study aims to know how the different elementary schools in La Trinidad on the implementation of Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education Program and if the students perform higher on the assessment after the implementation of Mother Tongue Based-Multi Lingual Education (MTBMLE)‚ compared to the Old Curriculum. The MTBMLE is now on its two years of its implementation. As conceptualized
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English 103 Professor: Lucero Date: 10/17/2014 Mother Tongue For many people‚ language is not recognized as a form of communication‚ but as a barrier that limit them to connect with the world. This is a very common problem for people who immigrated to United State from other countries and who grew up under nonnative English-speaking family as a first-generation Asian American. In the article “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ she tells her personal story of how she overcomes her own language obstacles. After
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An Argument for Using Native Language in the Classroom In the essay “Mother Tongue‚” Amy Tan describes the limited English skills of her mother‚ a Chinese immigrant‚ noting that “my mother had long realized the limitations of her English” **Tan citation here**. Tan goes on to describe how her mother had to compensate for these limitations throughout her life. This is the experience of many immigrants to the United States‚ who struggle to learn a new language while adapting to life in a new country
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Amy Tan Mother Tongue: In the short story "Mother Tongue" by author Amy Tan‚ she speaks of her mother’s English as "broken English" because her mother came from China and spoke as though she was unintelligent. Growing up Amy knew two languages. When she spoke to her mother she used elementary style words and spoke as though she did not know the language‚ while in front of fluent English speakers‚ she spoke eloquently with an impressive vocabulary. Amy becomes uncomfortable with the word broken
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Summary of Mother Tongue Mother Tongue‚ a narrative essay written by Amy Tan‚ who is an Asian American writer‚ introduced an array of stories that Tan and her mother experienced and thus highlighted the extent to which culture and language affected both author’s sensory perception of the world in both childhood and adult life progressively. The entire article was example-oriented which implied that Tan structured the essay by utilizing instances‚ not only from her perceptive but rather the comparisons
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Mother Tongue The essay I want to write on is Mother Tongue‚ which is written by Amy Tan. This article recalls me some adversities when the first few days I came to the United States. Amy is an ethnic Chinese writer who was born and living in United States. She was faced with language problem during her life. In this essay‚ Amy Tan talks about her mother’s broken grammar and the dialogue in English without grammar between her mother and her. But when Amy talks with other people‚ gives a speech‚
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