The turmoil of language has been a roller coaster ride for the past thirteen years, as well as, at one point in primary school. I was an exceptional writer in high school. I was an average writer but was profoundly awful at comprehension this had me baffled. In addition, I began to reflect on why I detested language so much so I took into consideration about my teachers, were they effective teachers? Can I be the problem? Is it because I do not like to read? Did I listen and paid attention? Or was I just lazy? What is it? After some reasoning, I understood that my experiences with Language varied because of inadequate teachers, a low attention span, and simply my lack of strong effort when writing an essay. Firstly, over the years in high school, I consistently obtained lazy, miserable, and erroneous teachers. They would either give me copies of paper and somehow expected me to figure the work on my own. The only way I can obtain knowledge is if either write it down or by regurgitation. Another example of bad teaching would be to give me decrepit topics that I would’ve learnt previously. In the tenth grade, somehow, I still was being educated on how to write a sentence, singular and plural verbs. How can I be better in a topic such as language when I’m being held back because some students are behind? So, I was at a disadvantage therefore I could not elevate my language skills. Moreover, when it came down to BGCSE’s or examinations my results were dreadful
As a College freshman in his second semester, I have learned to deal with the challenges that I have to deal with peaceful, yet exhilarating moment when my mind engages with an author’s thoughts on a page. As John Dewey states “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” What Dewey insists is from my early days in high school to my first year in college as a freshman, I wanted to know the full concept of English; however, I have now realized this subject would fill in my void of English with noteworthy complexities. This was not the case for most of my second semester in Montgomery College; I always had trouble in various parts of the subject, such as development in thesis statement, sentence writing and reflecting on previous essays. Writing a thesis statement had been one of my down falls in English.
As a former AP Lang student, I feel that this class has been very beneficial for me in that it has allowed me to apply the techniques and strategies I learned last year toward more relevant subjects. Having the freedom of choosing topics to write about for our various essays made this class more enjoyable than the other English classes that I have taken. AP Lang focused heavily on the techniques of writing solid essays, but instead of writing about useful topics, we analyzed the short stories provided on the exams. Writing a personal narrative essay was very helpful in my college application process and allowed me to employ the same kind of strategies that I learned in class into my college essays.
My choice in words always tend to make my assignments sound unripe. I agree in my past that i have been lazy when writing and reading that was before i realized my child like writing would not get me far in ninth grade. All of This has lead me to receving grades that i knew i could do much better than. Constantly being discouraged about my grades in english, I
In the current education system, the teachers are to give information according to the curriculum. The students then take the information and quickly jot it down only to regurgitate it on a later date and then to completely dismiss all the information. The education system is, again, designed for failure among the youth. The educators don’t make the curriculum fun to learn. Yes, they may make it an enjoyable environment to learn in, but that’s the extent of what the educators do.
There isn’t much experience in learning because books are illegal in this community. The schools are not common in this community and books aren’t in this community unless they are stolen. Beatty meets montag " School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored"(Bradbury 53). It’s clear that schooling isn’t popular in this community and books are not allowed in this community. It also shows that a lot of teachers are not heard of in this community.
At a young age I learned that not all things are taught in a
Creations, like most things in life, are improvable. Ideas and theories are always evolving into different ideas or more sophisticated ones. Discourse communities is a term that has been debated over the years. Three of those debaters are James Paul Gee, James P. Porter, and John Swales. In this essay I will analyze what each of these writers see as the definition of a discourse community while comparing specific points that each of them have regarding their personal view on the subject.
The excerpt from The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez, and the excerpt from “A 'Band-Aid ' for 800 Children" by Eli Sastow, both portray the subject of family separation. The authors of these texts use similar and different techniques to show us family separation brings negative feelings to everyone affected by this. There are other things the texts have in common other than their subject. For example, both of the excerpts include figurative language.
Abstract: Language is the medium by which one’s psychological experiences, emotions and imaginations can be recreated in the minds of the reader or listener. Through ages language has been the vehicle with which humans have communicated ideas to each other. Language has not only the power to heal and to comfort but also to retrieve the suppressed experiences of an individual from the past. This paper seeks to discuss Toni Morrison’s novel A Mercy as a text that explores the common language uncommonly well in using it as a double edged sword.
To my surprise, I had already been failing each of the tests, labs, and a majority of the assignments that were given to me during the first few weeks of school. My first thought after my failures and imperfections was why this was happening. I recall coming home after each school day had come to end and sitting at my desk for hours attempting to solve complex stoichiometry problems and mole to mole ratios, as well as understanding different types of chemical reactions, compounds, and theories. I devoted hours and hours to focusing my mind and concentrating on understanding the concepts that were presented to me in order to succeed in the class. However, despite my persistence and
Actually, if I’m being honest, my family sucks at writing. I was never placed in any special writing classes, but only the standard classes for school. I joined Intermediate composition to excel in my writing for my future. From this class, I’ve broadened my vocabulary and found new ways to check my pieces that I have wrote. I could always use more work with grammar because I have always struggled with that concept.
The reason this happens is because students have to focus on the words they are hearing in order for them to translate the sentence correctly. The students also have remember what meaning of each word
Some of these concerns have been explored and articulated by such as Shirley Grundy, who sees it as overly dependent on “cultivation of wisdom and meaning-making in the classroom” and as a result the actual capability of students to “make sense” of subject matter and the world around them, can be
Language is an abstract concept which needed by people to communicate. Language has an intrinsic meaning which represents an image and it is also symbolic however not only symbolic. Language is also a complex system and it is creative and productive meaning that you can product many words. Language does not only include objects but also includes all the images and concepts of the world. There is an abstraction of a real world.
Schools are the second place after home where students’ behavior and future educational success are shaped. At schools there are many elements or factors that can influence the teaching and learning process that may take place. Rasyid (2012) stated that there are four perennial truths that make the teaching and learning process possible to take place in the classroom. If one of these is not available, there will be no teaching and learning process, though the learning process itself may still take place, they are: (1) Teacher, (2) Students, (3) Material and (4) Context of time and place. All of them are related to one another.