Critical Literacy Narrative

Literacy is the comprehension of the written and verbal use of a langue. Failure to reach the criteria is to say one is not literate, although half of the requirements were met. Being able to grasp and comprehend one aspect of a langue that is either new or even the old can be difficult, let alone that there are two separate aspects.
I have always heard that you are either a visual, or hands-on learner, which comes down to how you break down and comprehend the speech that is used in a class, as well as in everyday life. I personally am a hands-on learner, so I can listen to it be said and see it done but if it is not being done step by step with me then grasping the information is more of a challenge of making them repeat themselves. Thus, …show more content…
On top of that they knew as much English as I knew Spanish! For me to see the struggle for understanding that they were sending out to me with what little words they knew and what they made my newly found friends to be an interpreter so we could communicate. Although now throughout the year’s assimilation has made them (by the loosest forms possible) literate, with them now being able to read, speak, and the ability to write a sentence. So, literacy is something that is a reachable goal for some cases. Although not quite the case for “Mrs. Tan” in Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue”, where she states that her mother could read but never mastered the speech of the English langue, saying “Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent if what my mother says… some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese.” Yet she states that her mother was clearly a good reader with “She reads the Forbes report, listens to wall street week… reads all of Shirley MacLaine’s books with ease – all kinds of things I can’t”. So, would this make her more literate then my friends parents where they comprehend speech and not writing or would it be Amy’s mother with the opposite ability? I believe that the two are the same, that they are both literate for that they can do the basics in …show more content…
For example, to pass the standards test it requires you to be able to speak the langue as well as you can write a sentence, but for a speech in front of a board of directors would need a lot more than what that minim requirement might have been. although both people are considered literate, one of them has a larger grasp on the functions of English. Such as the understanding of spelling rules, as well as parts of speech, and structure. Whereas the other might struggle through context clues for a larger word or even to have the level in which they are reading/ being spoken be lowered to a more comprehensive one. Should this mean that they should get any less attention for their ability’s? No, they should have a higher access to the material that they need for learning, if they hope to get better at it. Although this is not the case for most governments, if a person is unable to read and/ or write by the set time given to them, they are considered illiterate. After that they are not given any more chances to learn without the use of a private tutor or becoming self-taught. Even though they are the people who need it the most. Now I am not saying that the man or woman that went to college to be able to learn the amount they did should just give up his education for the people classified as illiterate, but rather offer help in community as well as locally. Have him give