Within each section it states what the students should be able to achieve for example under speaking and listening it states We want out students to develop increasing confidence and competence in speaking and listening so they are able to: • Clarify and explain their ideas and explain their thinking. • Use a varied and specialised vocabulary. • Listen with understanding and respond sensitively and appropriately. Under reading it states we want our students to enjoy reading, to be able to use their reading to help them learn to develop increasing confidence and competence in reading so that they are able to: • Read fluently and with understanding. • Select information from a wide range of texts and resources including print, media and to evaluate those sources.
Being in Mr. Bostwicks class I’ve learned a lot. My grammar has improved. I have learned better study habits and I think I have really grown with my writing abilities. Mr. Bostwick has taught my an easier way to set up my paragraphs. One of Mr. Bostwicks many mantras he has us memorize is something I think really helps me and it goes a little something like this “ words make up phrases and clauses, phrases and clauses makes sentences, sentences makes paragraphs, and paragraphs makes composition.” Altogether I give mister Bostwick my SEAL of approval.
It was hard to change the way she spoke, especially because she was raised speaking different language. More like anything, she wanted to speak like everyone else. Madera shows how crucial were teachers in her life. During high school years she met great English teacher who asked if she would like to write for the school paper. This gave her hope, possibly, one day she might also be able to talk correctly.
How I learned to read or write… Trying to remember how I learned to read or write is hard for me. I don’t know why either. To get some help to refresh my memory I started to go through my elementary school papers. I’m so happy my mom saved my early education moments. Without those papers I would be lost trying to recall what happened.
That is a crucial information because it shows the reader through the use of factual claims that Stafford is well educated in this topic which helps to establish her ethos. Stafford then compares the time twenty-four year olds spend reading for fun and seven graders spend texting in order to put in
Geraldine Contreras Professor Seymour English 101 15 March 2012 Life Experience Language is used to evoke specific feelings for readers for example Tan discuss all the English’s she encountered when growing up. The “simple” English was used for Tan when she spoke to her mother; the “broken” English was used for Tan’s mother to speak to her. Tan also uses “water down” translation, internal language for Tan to imagine her speaking perfect English. It’s imperative to understand why authors strategically utilize writing techniques to compel a reader thoughts to stay immersed in their stories. Using colloquialism can have the audience praising or criticizing the author.
One is learned from school and books, which is for writing and speaking, Standard English. The other one is for communication at home with mother, Family English. And Tan thinks her mother’s English is dynamic, straightforward, and both observation and imagination are rich enough. Also because of this kind language, it helps Tan to form the ways of expression and observation of things. And help her understand the world.
Amy Tan Final Exam In “My Mother’s English” by writer Amy Tan, we learned that her perception on her mother’s English had evolved over-time. As a writer Amy Tan feels that language is her way or tool of getting a point across, she even uses “All the English she grew up with”, meaning the fractured English her mother taught her. Tan says, “It is the sort of English that is our language of Intimacy, the English that relates to family talk, and the English that I grew up with”. Tan’s main point is that even though her mother speaks what some would call broken English, to her it’s beautiful to other “English speakers” it is abnormal. I think that her mother has been labeled or stereotyped.
Nowadays, many people on the world learn at least one foreign language because they want to improve themselves. The problem is how to learn a foreign language effectively. I think the best way to learn a foreign language is combination of the two ways: going to class and learning by yourself. When you study the foreign language in class, you have some benefits. You will receive the good materials that provide by school.
English language learners (ELLs) are not segregated from their peers. (Thomas & Collier, 1997) and ( Lindholm-Leary, 2000) • Another form of Bilingual Education is a type of Dual Language program that has students study in two different ways: • 1) A variety of academic subjects are taught in the students' second language, with specially trained bilingual teachers who can understand students when they ask questions in their native language, but always answer in the second language. • 2) Native language literacy classes improve students' writing and higher-order language skills in their