My Literacy Experience Essay

In Arabic language, which is my native language and the language that I learned first, there are two main influences that affected me. The first influence was my mother. She was the first person who took me to the bookstore to buy books. I remember that when I was five years old, I could not read fluently. She encouraged me to read some basic words, by saying “Now it is the time that you read by yourself and after a few more months you will read the story before sleeping all by yourself”. At that time, this was kind of a shock and a huge obstacle for me. I told her, “I am not in the elementary school yet, so how can I read”. Then she said, “All of your siblings learned how to read well before they went to school, and now it is your turn”. I
First, literacy requires long time and patience because it is not the process that is done in specific period of time. Second, the beginning of the process is so important because it is the foundation, and it has to be strong to continue your literacy. As long as the foundation of the Skyscraper is strong, you can go as much height as you want which is similar with literacy. The greatest thing in literacy is it changes learners’ life, and all their life is based on their literacy. Their literacy helps them to get a college education or a job, and it extends their knowledge. However, remember that as learner, you need the help of others to build your literacy because they are the main stimulus in your literacy. As what happened with me, my literacy in English changed my life now I am studying at University of Dayton about 7000 miles away from my family, but without all the encouragements that I got through my literacy from my mother and my teachers I could never be here. All these things make literacy as the biggest and the most important influence in learners’ life, but remember literacy never end as long as learners are alive they can extend their