Response Prompt #4

I am planning to write my personal experience for this assignment. When I came to America, I had to learn how to listen, read, speak and write. All these are connected to literacy. Coming to this country pretty much changed my life, but learning new things, such as language, came to a huge problem. The sentence form of English is different than of Korean. Of course, it has a different pronunciation. It was my first time to learn a language in native society. (other than Korean) I think I can write this experience in literacy wise.

Changu Kang

Response Prompt #3

“As I have been attempting to argue, literacy as a resource becomes able to ordinary people largely through the meditations of more powerful sponsors”-page 173. This quote is saying that an arguing is going to effect many people with powerful sponsors. I think it is pretty much strong point among the other quotes.

“The concept of sponsors helps to explain, then, a range of human relationship and ideological pressures that turn up at the scenes of literacy… impositions and deprivations by church or state.” I think this quote shows about the author’s thought very shortly, because this explains what sponsor.

“We have seen how literacy sponsors affect literacy learning in two powerful ways. They help to organize and administer stratified systems of opportunity and access and they raise the literacy stakes in struggles for competitive advantage” This is a strong theory that the author is arguing about the sponsorship and how it effects to people in literal way.

The story’s Author is arguing about sponsors mainly. How the sponsors need to work and what to do with point. He also talks about literacy to explain the systems of language and definition of literacy. This story was much through than any other story I read in this class.

Response Prompt # 2

Changu Kang

1. “If you want to really hurt me, talk badly about my language. Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity. – I am my language.” From this quote, I could feel that she is proud of speaking her language, even though people are making fun of her accent and pronunciation. This quote also shows that she really love her language besides her challenging situation.

2. a. Standard Korean b.Slang Korean c. Standard English d. Koglish e. Standard Chinese f. Korean that I use only with my friends. Standard Korean is strongest language in here because it is my primary language. and second one will be Standard English, because I live in U.S. Third one will be Koglish. I used to speak a language that two languages are mixed up. Slang Korean and Korean that I use only with my friend stands at Forth place, these are little bit different but originally will be used in same frequency. Last one will be Standard Chinese, it is least language frequency and I am not fully speaking.

3. My Personal Experience.

When I just came to America, I took ESOL class. It was separated from standard class. so I didn’t care about my accent. One day, one female student passing by, when I was talking to my friend. What she said was, “Wow, he speaks a really wired accent” I was pretty much shocked, due to my strong accent. I tried to change the accent for several times But, I realized it isn’t important.

Response Prompt # 1

1. I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky.

– I think this quote shows that the protagonist did not want to fail his life even thought he was born in poor family. He used his situation and his environment to create his maximum ability. For example,  He was lucky to have the comic books, because it lead him to read. Because of this, he was able to study far beyond than his classmate. He was arrogant to share his time with others. he just read and read. As a result, these make refuse him to fail.

2. In my personal experience, Superman and me recalls me when I just came to United States. I had to read to get good grades in school and I needed to spend much more times than other student, because of language. After some times, I was not better than them but I was able to read as much as them. For this result, my homework have to be done and study an extra paper to develop my English level. I think this story some what co-response to my story.

3. I would define the meaning of literacy as ” the way to find how to read and speak” He realized how to recognize paragraphs and words by himself. Moreover, he read the book even though he did not know how to read, but he spoke out and practiced how to speak. As a result, the protagonist learned the language in young age.

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