in the constraints of language and the process becomes increasingly more taxing. Children of immigrants and their parents often face language and communication barriers upon arrival. This is the experience author Amy Tan describes in her essay “Mother Tongue”. Tan illustrates how the language spoken amongst family varies from the language spoken in public. As Tan communicates the language utilized in a child’s environment outside of an educational institution plays a part in how that child performs
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Sometimes the limitations comes in the shape of not being able to talk the right way‚ not being able to keep up with other children in the same age and lots more. All of that is explained in one sentence Amy Tan wrote. The title of her article is ’’ Mother Tongue’’ and it was in 1990. The main purpose of her article is to show that there are a lot of people that want to learn a new language but face difficulties with their families as the family don’t talk that language very well. As Tan said‚ she describe
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Lance Hollingsworth Summary/Response English 1010 In the article‚ “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” by Stephen Marche we are informed of the negative effect social media can have on out psychological self. “Social media – from Facebook to twitter – have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity‚ new research suggests that we have never been lonelier.” (Marche 60) What is loneliness? It is a psychological state. Marche stated many times that loneliness
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Assignment 1.1 Summary and Personal Response to “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” By chin Uva‚ Professor‚ Dr‚ Atia Yasmeen‚ Course: English Composition 115 Date: Feb 11‚ 2012 Suki Kim who came from Korea‚ tells in this essay that is named “Facing Poverty with a Rich girl’s Habits” about why she and her the richest family moved to Queens‚ New York in the early 1980’s. When she was enrolled the seventh grade‚ her millionaire father bankruptcy overnight. After her father lost all
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Rosales 1 Cecilia Rosales Professor Allen Final Summary-Response Essay 16 October 2011 Argument Culture: Confrontation Online In “The Argument Culture” by Deborah Tannen‚ she describes our adversarial society in debates and dialogues. Tannen discusses our culture’s style of seeing issues‚ questions‚ and conflicts as having two sides that battle each other for one goal. She states that using war metaphors: war on drugs or fight against AIDS‚ makes every conflict a battle in the minds
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Summary & Response: How It Feels To Be Colored Me Living in a world where it is foreign to be colored was hard for many people of this nature in the 1920s. For Zora Neale Hurston‚ this was not a challenge at all. This high-spirited girl gives an explanation of how it felt to be‚ “...like a brown paper bag of miscellany propped against a wall” (Hurston 197). Written by Hurston herself‚ “How It Feels To Be Colored” gives us a humorous‚ sarcastic-ridden view of what her childhood was like from her
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Summary Response Paper In this article she is talking about online dating. She believes that there is nothing wrong with it and sees it as just another method to meeting new people. She states that people have been going on blind dates for as long as the mind can remember so what is wrong with setting up your own blind date? She says that the stigma against online dating with the people in the twenty something age group is interesting. This is interesting because it is that age group that came
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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
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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
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In both essays‚ “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan and “A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” written by Richard Rodriguez‚ the two types of language used by bicultural people are distinguished: private and public. Moreover‚ both articles illustrate the challenge of expressing complete thoughts with limited English and it influences on a bilingual growing child. The first one‚ as Rodriguez describes‚ “The words would come quickly‚ with ease. Conveyed through those sounds was the pleasing‚ soothing‚ consoling
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