By: Jason K. I enjoy reading Fae Myenne Ng ’s Bone. I find her novel easy to read and understand. Although she included some phrases the Chinese use‚ I find no difficulty in understanding them‚ as I ’m Chinese myself. The novel Bone is written in a circular narrative form‚ in which the story doesn ’t follow the linear format where the suspense slowly builds up and finally reaches a climax stage. Rather the story ’s time sequence is thrown back and forth. I find this format of writing brings greater
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The story Bone written by “Fae Myenne Ng” focuses on the struggle Leila and her family go through in San Francisco. Leila the narrator tells her family’s struggles in this country after they immigrated from china. Mah her mother and Leon her stepfather are hardworking immigrants who have battle to make it through life. I relate to her story in so many ways‚ my mother is also a very hardworking immigrant who has done everything to give my brothers and me a better future. Mah works at sweatshop
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Mother tongue means it is the language first learned by a child or one’s native language rather a parent language and passed from one generation to the next. It is the language community of the mother tongue‚ the language spoken in a region‚ which enables the process of acculturation‚ the growing of an individual into a particular system of linguistic perception of the world and participation in the centuries old history of linguistic production. As a student my big perception of this is it’s a big
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language. “The power of language can evoke an emotion‚ a visual image‚ a complex idea‚ or a simple truth” (FYR: 84). Language is used daily in our lives‚ and therefore plays a significant role in shaping our identity. The narrative “Mother Tongue” depicts the variations of the English language‚ and the nature of talk. Amy Tan also shares the story of her mother’s “broken” English and how this limited her perception of hers mother’s communication with others. Language can be developed both through environment
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Mother Tongue- Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) One of the changes in Basic Education Curriculum brought about by the new K-12 program is the introduction of Mother Tongue- Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) specifically in Kindergarten‚ Grades 1‚ 2 and 3 to support the goal of “ Every Child- A- Reader and A –Writer” by Grade 1.” MTB-MLE refers to “first-language-first” education that is‚ schooling which begins in the mother tongue and transitions to additional languages particularly
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G. Lim‚ Rolly L. Daluyen‚ Zaldy T. Dackias‚ Ana Leah L. ABSTRACT The study aims to know how the different elementary schools in La Trinidad on the implementation of Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education Program and if the students perform higher on the assessment after the implementation of Mother Tongue Based-Multi Lingual Education (MTBMLE)‚ compared to the Old Curriculum. The MTBMLE is now on its two years of its implementation. As conceptualized by the Department of Education
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Diesel motors run America. But what if a diesel motor breaks down? Somebody would have to fix it. A diesel engineer or technician would need to fill the spot. But how much money does a diesel mechanic make‚ and how much do they have to pay for their training? At UNOH (University of Northern Ohio)‚ a person can take up to five years of schooling. One year of training is nine months. Within those nine months‚ you can become a diesel mechanic. One year of schooling is only twenty two thousand dollars
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head‚ occasionally working on individual poems for many years. Long lived like most of his family‚ Alfred Lord Tennyson died on October 6‚ 1892‚ at the age of 83. The two poems that I will be talking about today will be Break‚ Break‚ Break and Ulysses. “Break‚ Break‚ Break” is a lyrical poem which centers on Tennyson’s grief over the death of his closest friend Arthur Hallam. Throughout the poem Tennyson grieves for his loss of his friend. Nature does not stop to mourn for the loss of anyone
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“Mother Tongue” In the essay‚ “Mother Tongue‚” Amy Tan informs the reader of the language barrier matters that she underwent as an Asian American. Various individuals are looked down upon because of their poor english language skills. Tan shared the experience of limitation‚ intimation‚ and the family talk that she had in her life. She feels bad for having a limitations‚ because she was Asian-American. Her mother speaks broken
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In the short stories of Mother Tongue by Amy Tan and Public and Private Language by Richard Rodriquez‚ both essays describe an influence on the English language and what impact they had while coping with that language. For Amy tan in Mother Tongue‚ she roots the common source for who had what kind of impact on her learning of that language. In Public and Private Language‚ Richard Rodriguez establishes a view point on why it is important to be given a public identity. Both stories come together to
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