English Essay About Myself

Tan shows embarrassment over her mother’s English, my parents didn’t know any English. They could understand more of it over the years but they couldn’t get themselves to speak it. I have always felt limited by my English skills, especially in school. In the reading by Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue” I relate to the whole essay. Has I was reading along in my head I was remembering all my own experiences as she mentioned in “Mother Tongue.” With my limited English I had no help from anyone with…

ethnicity are very much on the table. Teachers dream of seeing their students discuss difference in a constructive way. Some educators actively encourage their classes to get outside their comfort zones and confront the country’s racial history, but I ask myself after reading McIntosh’s Interactive Phases of Curricular and Personal Re-Vision Model, how much was race and ethnicity practice in the classroom long ago when I was in elementary. I can remember when I was in 10th grade my history…

Taking your AP Composition English class has been a frightening yet successful challenge. Personally I have always struggled with the English language since it is not my native language. Freshman year I was denied into the honors English program as was the case sophomore year. In my college prep classes I noticed I was not making any noticeable gains, so that was when I realized I had to challenge myself by taking your course. The rumors stated by current seniors made the class seem impossible.…

Discovering the English language may be the most crucial experience one can endure as an American citizen. For Helen Keller, Malcolm X and Christine Marín, it was, and there are extraordinary similarities despite their extremely different situations. Helen Keller was an upper class deaf and blind girl living in America during a time where handicapped people were dehumanized and negatively looked upon. She was taught to read and write three months shy of her seventh birthday by…

about the many variations within the English language. Not only does Adams use his personal story to show that language discrimination still pledges today's America, but he also gives detailed examples of how frustrating and problematic subjective generalizations undermines the simple fact that the English language is heavily influenced by location and time. In contrast, the article “ Se habla español” by Tanya Barrientos tackles language discrimination between English and Spanish speaking…

“Mother Tongue” talks about how a Chinese woman who was an immigrant and was limited, ignored, deny of her right, because she could not speak correct English. Amy Tan are daughter, talks about how she was aware of the various ways to use English language, and tries to use the correct grammar that she had learned during her school life, and from books when she was invited to a program to give a speech about her book to a group of people. During Tan’s speech, she notices that her mother was…

driving all that way since we did not have the money for plane tickets, they did it anyway. Growing up in a Hispanic home, I was obviously used to hearing and speaking Spanish. When it came to going to school, I was always quiet. I couldn’t speak English as well as the other kids. I could only imagine my sisters struggle, being in a higher grade level with kids much more advanced than she was. Adapting to a different lifestyle had to be the hardest thing not…

speaking broken English. In having a better understanding of these people that are in most, if not all parts of this country it would also help the reader to have more empathy towards immigrants instead of turning our noses up at them.…

tried hiding in the dark but he is like the moon he follows every step that I made. In the morning, I attempted to leave through the front door, but the door would not open. It is like I am locked inside a cell. I had my first nightmare with the English language when I was in 6th grade. I remember clearly what occurred. It was a sunny day when my teacher uttered in the class” Rosia, can you please read the next reading passage for me?” I bite my tongue so hard until it bled. I was saying in my…

Going into this class my thoughts of what an ELL was before reading Coehlo (2004) and Li, Myles, & Robinson (2012) was someone who had immigrated to Canada and English was not their first language. It is probably a common assumption among the majority of the population even though it is a wrong one. I also only viewed an ELL as someone who is initially learning the language, but as talked about in the lesson, the learning never really stops. I never would have viewed an individual who is a…