“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ a famous Asian-American writer whose works focus a lot on mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese American experience. She grew up with a Chinese mother who spoke broken‚ or limited‚ English that was difficult for many people to understand. Amy Tan thinks because her mom spoke English differently‚ this caused Tan to speak English differently too. In her article‚ she talks about how language has the power to help shape the way people saw things‚ expressed things‚
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Introduction Summary In the introduction of the book‚ the author explains to us why the book was written. He also explains the differences between how a student would read literature versus how a teacher would read literature. He explains that this book is basically a guide to show how to fully understand and enjoy literature. Foster says that the key three features that you should recognize to help you decipher literature are; memory‚ symbol‚ and pattern. Concluding to the end of the paragraph
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Mother’s tongue – Amy Tan Introduction: I. My background and how it has not hindered my learning English language. I come from a Jewish Italian parent but it has not affected me or my language as I do have perfect English. I compare my experience similar to Amy Tan and I can definitely correlate with her with respect to coming from non English background but it has not hindered my quest to learn English language. Body: I. About Amy Tan’s essay – “Mother Tongue” In Amy Tan ’s essay - "Mother
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American. In the article “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ she tells her personal story of how she overcomes her own language obstacles. After I read this article‚ I have different feeling and opinions on the languages that I am speaking. I used to think that language is just a tool or form of communication that allow me to communicate with other people. Personally‚ I speak
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to discuss‚ why I agree with Amy Chua’s parenting idea. After her daughter grows up‚ she got into an Ivy League university and gotten many high achievements‚ and was very successful. The most important part is her daughter does not hate her mom at all even her mom used to treat her that strict‚ practice four hours a day without rest time‚ etc. I will support my argument by using her daughter’s life as an example. Chua’s Ideas I had extracted two ideas from the article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior
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The paragraph in question contains many things that can easily be examined and be projected across the essay as a whole. To give a summary of the paragraph‚ the speaker Amy Tan is speaking to a large group of people about her new book. Then she remembers that her mother is in the group‚ and she feels strange using more formal English than any she has ever used by her mother. Other portions of the essay talk about how her mother’s English can be described as broken or simple‚ and she feels that this
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January 25‚ 2012 Summary # 1 Summary “INTO THE UNKNOWN” “INTO THE UNKNOWN” published by the Economist is a magazine article about the fear that American workers have about future jobs and the replacing of jobs through outsourcing and computers. According to this article‚ white-collar workers around the world are losing their jobs as machines and foreign workers take over. The author’s purpose of this article is to alert the readers that although there are some changes in technology
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I think the main point Amy Tan is trying to make in A Mother’s Tongue is that words are more than just words‚ sometimes you have to look behind them and read in between to understand the true meaning. For example‚ her mother did not speak perfect English‚ but the points and ideas she was trying to get across are what really were important. Not all people who speak the English language speak it the same way. A language can be subdivided into any number of dialects which each vary in some way from
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Article Summary Kate Donaldson Grand Canyon University: UNV-501: Introduction to Graduate Studies in the College of Education September 7‚ 2013 Article Summary This paper explores a published article that reports on the results from research conducted about student communication in online classes. In this article the author researched students aging from 20-50 year olds. The article exposes the research results from those who performed online classes in both the Generation x and
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Assignment #7: Article Summary (Fluency) Fluency is being able to read a text smoothly and rapidly. If children can read smoothly‚ they place more attention on the meaning of the overall text rather than letter-sound relationships in each word. According to Seitz & Bartholomew (2014)‚ “Fluency bridges the gap from word recognition to comprehension” (p. 22). When children are not fluent readers‚ they concentrate more on decoding and the message of the text tends to get lost. There are different ways
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