Amy Tan, an author of ¨Mother Tongue¨ elaborates about how there's different types of Englishes a person can have or speak. “Lately, I've been going more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as ¨broken¨ or ¨fractured¨ English¨. Her mom who immigrated to America from China speaks English that is considered to be not advanced in Western society. In other words, her mother can’t speak English well as others.
From the article, Tan’s position on multiple Englishes and how people treat people who use them is that it is unfair that people with ¨limited¨ English are putten down. In the article, she explains that how she would used to impersonate her mom on important phone calls because if her
From the article, Tan’s position on multiple Englishes and how people treat people who use them is that it is unfair that people with ¨limited¨ English are putten down. In the article, she explains that how she would used to impersonate her mom on important phone calls because if her