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Essay 1: Who are you as a reader?
Essay 1: Who are you as a reader?
Prompt: Who are you as a reader and writer, both and outside of school, and how will that help you as an academic reader and writer in college? Connect and Interact with ideas one author from this unit.
Practice Write PROMPT
Relationship to the English Languages:
- Only learned one English, which is the English they taught in Singapore when I was younger.
- Created new relationships and meet people I've never could have met with my English.
- Could have learned any other English Languages, but I was taught with the English they use in Singapore (they might be using a specific tone)
= it wouldn't have matter which English because, English in general is the most spoken language in the world, so people would understand most part of what I am saying.
- The English I speak has a small French accent to it, not too much thought.
- I would say the language is only half part of me just because I speak it, even though I am not an American citizen.
- I would say the language is only half part of me just because I speak it, even though I am not an American citizen.
Literacy:
To be able to read and write.
Reading:
A teachable skill that allows you to say words.
Writing:
A teachable skill that allows you to mark words, letters and numbers on paper (<for example.)
Home Experiences with language:
- Learned French at home.
- Speak French to parents and family => speak faster + more understandable.
- Interesting Fact: Don't feel comfortable speaking in English to my parents, unless I have to.
- Sometimes a word in French may sound correct to say it in English, but then it my parents say that it is untranslatable.
- Even though in our family's first language is French, my sister's first language is English and French is her second language.
Educational Experiences with reading and writing before college
- Take longer period reading in English compared to French.
- I have to read sometimes more than twice than my first language.
- In high school for English quiz and tests, there was this "15mins extra time" option that I could apply, which I did, because I needed more time to read and write in English.
Personal Practices Reading and Writing outside of school
- Never liked reading but knew that it would of be useful in the future, because once you can read, you can write.
- I have a lot of personal tutors that helped me in English and French reading and writing.
- I don't like reading things that don't interest me, but I do find the love for reading when there is an article, story or news that is interesting.
- Music aswel has helped to pronounce couple words and how sentences are said this way or that way.
- Video Games helped me to type faster in English and in French
- Never liked reading but knew that it would of be useful in the future, because once you can read, you can write.
- I have a lot of personal tutors that helped me in English and French reading and writing.
- I don't like reading things that don't interest me, but I do find the love for reading when there is an article, story or news that is interesting.
- Music aswel has helped to pronounce couple words and how sentences are said this way or that way.
- Video Games helped me to type faster in English and in French
Relate to Amy Tan's story:
- Mom who speaks "English with a thick French accent" = Amy's mom speaking English with a thick Chinese accent.
- The way my mother speaks isn't wrong, its the way how it sound that people may not understand her.
- I understand everything that my mom says but sometimes people might take it personally when she speaks with a specific tone.
- I never spoke for my mom on the phone but It would have been an interesting thing to do. I would of learned some stuffs that she wouldn't want me to hear. At the end of the day, she is dependent to take care of her calls.
- My mom would of use a dictionary French-English or use google translation with the "sound button" to hear, on how to pronounce the word.
- I did grew up half of my life, with my mom speaking a English with a thick French Accent when I would go to American schools. (example: parents-teacher conference, talks with the principal and parents of my friends whose first language is English = I feel that my parents, specifically my mom is judge and not welcome to a group of other moms her age just because she doesn't speak English "fully")
- My mom understand the language but when it comes to the calling on the phone, she doesn't understand a single because of how and the speed of people speaking to her in English.
His main focus was relating to the stories of the author, Amy Tan, and making connections with his experiences of his mother. He put a lot examples about his mother, but what I did want to read more about was his own personal experiences. He started off with his life story on how he learned the English language and did a pretty good job overall making connections with the authors.
ReplyDeleteThe main idea was how you relate to Amy Tan and her life story. I enjoyed your connections and how you relate to the similar things Tan experienced. You included many specific examples of how, like Tan, your mother had a thick accent making social encounters different than those who do not have an accent.
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