and until today‚ there are no one can replace her place in my heart. For me‚ she is very special. Although sometimes I make she cry‚ she never hate me. She never feels tired to love me. The person that loves me so much is my mother. (TUNJUK SLIDE). This is my loving mother. Her full name is Noriah bt Muda. She was born on 17 August 1959 at Kampung Paya‚ Marang‚ Terengganu. She is the middle daughter out of three siblings. On 1966‚ she entered a primary school at Sekolah Kebangsaan Marang
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national or international language‚ it is recommended that children experience at least five to eight years of education in their mother tongue while gradually being introduced to other dominant languages (Thomas & Collier‚ 2002 in Oredina‚ et al 2015). The strategy of beginning school in the first language and eventually adding other languages is commonly called Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education‚ or MTB-MLE. A UNESCO report (Baron‚ 2012) on the importance of language to the Millennium Development
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Mother Tongue is about the authors struggles with her linguistic identity‚ her mothers "fractured" or "broken" variation of english and the relationship with her mother. At the beginning of the piece we are told about the different types of english she would speak with her mother and with everyone else; we are then told how english wasn’t Amy’s strongest subject and later on we are told about the difficulties her mother experienced because of the way she spoke english and the prejudice she faced
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Mother Tongue Summative Task Part One (Questions One and Two) 1. Discuss the significance of the following statements in the essay: a) “And I use them all—all the Englishes I get up with.” Point Form: This statement is important because it tells the reader how important the dialect of her mother is to her. It also shows the reader how all the dialects and languages you listen to affect the way you speak. It highlights the differences in our speech patterns and the different dialects we use in
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Reader Response 1: Mother Tongue by Amy Tan Discusses the way she and her mother use English to communicate. Give specific examples from the reading to explain their interactions in English. The main purpose of this paper is to focus on the linguistic differences and the challenges of cultural translation as a barrier‚ on the other hand the power of storytelling as a bridge. Amy Tan wants to let the reader know that languages influence our lives. Tan discuses in the story the difference between the
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[THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MOTHER TONGUE ON LEARNİNG SECOND LANGUAGE] -THE MOTHER TONGUE AS A VİTAL POINT- The language is the most important tool in human life to survive.We use language in order to inform the people around us of what we feel‚ what we desire‚ and understand the world around us. We communicate effectively with our words‚ gestures‚ and tone of voice in a multitude of situation. Not only is it a means of communicating thoughts and ideas‚ but it
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I. Introduction Background of the Study Before we discuss the so-called Gullas bill or the proposed act strengthening and enhancing the use of English as a medium of instruction‚ let’s get a backgrounder on the state of education in the Philippines. For every 100 children that start grade one in our country‚ only 65 will reach Grade 6‚ the others having dropped out along the way (with 18 of the dropouts occurring between Grade 1 and Grade 2). What this means is that even before these children
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In Tthe story “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ a Chinese immigrant of English language writer‚ starts beingsher essay by with the author stating that while she is not a scholar of English literature‚ but she is trying to give express her personal opinions about regarding English language and how fascinating the language is for hershe finds the language. In addition‚ she explains that language is becomes a powerful tool to evoke an emotion‚ a visual image‚ a complex idea‚ or a simple truth. Furthermore
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once said in his book Logico Tractatus Philosophicus ‚“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” This quotation means language has no limit‚ it’s something that can be translated into a wide variety. Both Amy Tan in the essay‚ “Mother Tongue” and Richard Rodriguez in the essay‚ “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” write about their struggle with their identities not only because of their race‚ but also the language there families speak. Amy Tan and Richard Rodriguez both struggled
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In the articles‚ “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan and “Rhythm of the Caribbean: Connecting Oral History and Literacy" by Glasceta Honeyghan‚ the authors discuss different types of language styles that they grew up with. The authors discuss their difficulties and what was enjoyable to them. The articles remind us that working hard on what you enjoy will be worth it one day. In the article‚ “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ Tan describes what it was like growing up in an immigrant family in the United
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