telling the story, and they are in the story. When a story is first person point of view, it uses I very frequently. Another similarity is that both parents know two languages, in Mother Tongue the parent can speak Chinese as well as English, and in Names/Nombres the parent can speak Spanish and English. Also, one of the similarities include that both families have foreign American cultures. In Mother Tongue it said “my translation of her Chinese, which could certainly be described as “watered down” and
now people are utilizing and employing that knowledge in the concept of English, Science, Art and Mathematics. Literacy is fundamental for learning in schools, universities and colleges and it always has been playing a major role in everyone's life because it leads us to accomplish our life goals. Therefore, Fredrick Douglass accomplished escaping from slavery to freedom, Richard Rodriquez achieved learning to speak English publicly and Malcolm X attained his goal of assisting African American and
context focuses on three kinds. They are field, tenor and mode. Field deeps on what the text is taking about, for example "medicine, education or science". Tenor is the relationship between participants. It is the power of relation. It shows the equality and inequality relation. Also, if there is closeness or formality. The last kind of the context is the mode. It is the channel of communication. It tells us if the text is spoken, written of mixing. Semantic is focuses on pragmatic.
Prajapati. Associate Professor, Department of English, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat. ABSTRACT The art of translation allows the translation to take place at various levels of texts and translators. Not as a matter of surprise, the attempts are always made by translators to translate the Source Language (SL) text into the Target Language (TL) text. However, it renders surprise when the same SL text has very often been translated into the same TL text by various hands. More often than not,
Most of what the women talk about in the clip are stereotype about how north and south are different. I find myself agreeing to majority of the stereotypes they talked about. One of the women in the clip gave an example of how northerners are different from southerners. In most cases when a northerners meet a new person they say nice to see without any warming impression, but a true southerner would normally tell a person nice to meet you in a nice tone that would make you feel at home. I disagree
different variety of emotions, ideas etc. she states that there are different types of English that people use in a multicultural society but people generally don’t realize this fact, in this essay her main focus was on her mother and the way her mother face the world and how that effect her as a daughter she said that her mother had a difficult time communicating to the norm of English speakers, because the way she speaks is thought to be illiterate or of some type of ignorance. She has to help her mother
story and a poem or prose piece by Melanin Sun. At the beginning of the text, Melanin Sun explains that believes that writing in his journal is the best way to express himself. Therefore, his writings throughout the text display his emotions. For example, after his mom comes out to him Melanin does not speak to her; however, with the help of his poems, readers learn that Melanin is confused about the situation and chooses not to speak to avoid more conflict. Without the Melanin’s prose and poems, readers
In a similar essay “A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” it is about a kid where his childhood was not what he expected mostly about his language, because it was kind of hard to adapt and fit in that kind of society, and especially when his native language is Spanish, he went to a school were all the kids were white. He did not felt comfortable in the classroom. The kid was known as a problematic kid. The nun always keep eye on him, once he went to back to his home, he felt save because, all the people
Teachers are not proficient in English listening and speaking and writing and therefore unable to boost the oral fluency of the students or improve the students’ skill in expressing ideas, both orally and in writing.Students are do not have assessment or grading their independent, innovativeEnglish
American and British Culture in ELT: A Blessing or a Curse? The status of English as today?s most widely-used language has regularly been a topic of wonderment and alarm to observers. Although the global dominance of English carries with it great possibilities, development, and increased knowledge, there are also prominent concerns about the negative impacts such a powerful language has on local cultures. For English Language Teaching practitioners, much of the discussion about linguistic and