Guy Nabo
ENGL 101
ASSIGNMENT 7
Mr. Anastasia
In discussions of whether students should have the right to their own language, two controversial issues or questions in the article “Students’ Right to Their Own Language” have been : “What should the schools do about the language habits of students who come from a wide variety of social, economic, and cultural backgrounds?” (20) And “Should the school try to uphold language variety, or to modify it, or to eradicate it?” (20). While for academic writing purposes students should be expected to use standard American dialect. It is important to respect the diversity, and it’s also important to understand that learning a language other than your own language is very hard. Allowing students to use or speak their own language takes off a lot of pressure on …show more content…
It’s also the only way to express yourself, and to make people listen or understand you. Even though others can perceive my thought as racism because it unables them to express themselves freely through their own language and also forces them to adapt the language of the dominant standard American culture. I still insist that english be in academic writing because i feel include in the text. In the article ‘Students’ right to their own language’ ,The author was targeting Black African American, returned Soldiers of the vietnam war and foreign students in the 60s. All this people had something in common which was the fact that they couldn’t speak English correctly and needed to speak their own dialect in other to express themselves. They were also all foreigners and could speak more than one language. From this perspective, my point of view should be important because I speak more than two language and i’ve only live the country for 3 years. It’s hard for us to express myself in English because English is not our first
ENGL 101
ASSIGNMENT 7
Mr. Anastasia
In discussions of whether students should have the right to their own language, two controversial issues or questions in the article “Students’ Right to Their Own Language” have been : “What should the schools do about the language habits of students who come from a wide variety of social, economic, and cultural backgrounds?” (20) And “Should the school try to uphold language variety, or to modify it, or to eradicate it?” (20). While for academic writing purposes students should be expected to use standard American dialect. It is important to respect the diversity, and it’s also important to understand that learning a language other than your own language is very hard. Allowing students to use or speak their own language takes off a lot of pressure on …show more content…
It’s also the only way to express yourself, and to make people listen or understand you. Even though others can perceive my thought as racism because it unables them to express themselves freely through their own language and also forces them to adapt the language of the dominant standard American culture. I still insist that english be in academic writing because i feel include in the text. In the article ‘Students’ right to their own language’ ,The author was targeting Black African American, returned Soldiers of the vietnam war and foreign students in the 60s. All this people had something in common which was the fact that they couldn’t speak English correctly and needed to speak their own dialect in other to express themselves. They were also all foreigners and could speak more than one language. From this perspective, my point of view should be important because I speak more than two language and i’ve only live the country for 3 years. It’s hard for us to express myself in English because English is not our first