learning. Effective communication often relies in the utilization of language. In a school setting‚ the medium of instruction often plays a fundamental role in the success of the teaching- learning process. The K-12 Curriculum emphasizes the use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction with the intent of improving the learners’ understanding. The familiarity of the language is purported to be a great factor in the pupils’ learning. A better understanding of lessons would also lead to the learners’ better
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Gloria Anzaldua‚ who was an activist and writer that grew up in Texas and endured several forms of oppression‚ covers several topics in her essay “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” including her feelings on the social and cultural difficulties that Mexican immigrants face when being raised in the United States. Among one of the things Anzaldua describes Mexican immigrants must endure is the judgment from other Mexicans for
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In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”‚ Anzaldua introduces her own language Chicano Spanish to us. Because of 250 years of Spanish and Anglo colonization‚ Chicanos developed their own language‚ which was a combination of both English and Spanish. When Anzaldua was young‚ she was told Chicano Spanish was a bastard language and attacks on her native tongue continues throughout her lives. However‚ she didn’t feel ashamed of her language‚ and instead‚ she was proud to speak Chicano Spanish and wished it to
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Minor response to "Softest of Tongues" Change is an inevitable part of our lives and sometimes accepting that change can be difficult. In the poem "Softest of Tongue" poet Vladir Nabokov expresses the burden of accepting change and saying goodbye to the past. Nabokov writes of a character that goes through the process of change‚ by identifying the problem‚ accepting the decision for change and then starting a new beginning. However the character starts to have difficulties in letting go of his past
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author of “Mother Tongue”‚ wrote a novella on the difficulties of her mother speaking and writing English; or more simply put‚ learning the correct rhetoric. Throughout the story‚ she ridicules her mother for her lack of ability to better express her thoughts in the 2nd hardest language on the Earth but seems to do it in the most loving way possible. Well‚ she tried to the best extent she could. Given the context of the situation Amy isn’t a horrible person or hatful towards her mother‚ her attitude
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The Summary Response January 26‚ 2013 DUE: February 1‚ 2013 The Summary Response builds on summary in two ways. First‚ before you can respond to a text‚ you must be able to summarize its main points. In other words‚ you must understand a text on its own terms before you can express an opinion about it. Second‚ the Summary Response expands textual meaning by including reader response. It’s the kind of reader response‚ however‚ that distinguishes a good Summary Response from a bad one. A
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English" is similar in all households and presents similar hardships. In _Mother Tongue_‚ Amy Tan mainly focuses on the hardships of adapting to American culture. Tan also avoids to being in situations where her mother tries to express herself. Amy is "red-faced and quit" while her mother "was shouting at [the
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Language: a method of communication that is used in a particular group or community. Prior to reading How to Tame a Wild Tongue‚ I always assumed that languages are what keep people connected. However‚ after reading Anzaldua’s article‚ I was exposed to a new perspective regarding language and identity. It was Anzaldua’s Chicano language that distanced her from other Americans and Latinos around her. Compared Amy Tan‚ who did not relate to her mother’s “broken English”‚ Anzaldua embraced her Chicano
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Survey of the New Testament Summer Semester 2010 Bible Summary Paper James 3:1-12 Controlling the Tongue James 3:1-12 Between 40 and 49 A.D. Jesus’ brother James wrote the book of James which is believed to be one of the first if not the very first book in the New Testament to be written. James wrote the book to address the twelve scattered Jewish tribes and “to encourage them to continue to grow in the new Christian faith (got questions.org)”. There is a particular
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Summary/Response Part-time Employment Undermines Students Commitment to School Summary: In the essay‚ "Part-time Employment Undermines a Student’s Commitment to School" by Laurence Steinberg‚ it explains how studies show that teenagers that work while attending school are more likely to loose their commitment to school. Steinberg tells the affects on students when they work more than twenty hours a week. His theory was that students are more susceptible to losing their interest in school‚
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