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The Negative Influence of Mother Tongue on Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition ---Through Chinese Students Learning English Experience I. Definitions Mother tongue means the language which a person has grown up speaking from early childhood. It has a great influence on the second language acquisition. As professor Robert Lado emphasized in his book Linguistics Across Culture, that in the environment of the second language acquisition, learners depend on their mother tongue and transfer the…

Pearl S. Buck is the author of The Good Earth. She was born in 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia to Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, two American missionaries. When Buck was three months old, she and her family moved to China where she spent most of her childhood and young adult life. In 1910, she moved to the U.S. to study philosophy at Randolph-Macon Woman’s college in Virginia. Although she had planned on staying in America, Pearl returned to China after learning that her mother was…

Children realize their identity through their family and surrounding environment while growing up. During childhood, they identify their internal appearance, such as who they are, and where they are from. In Calonline Hwang’s cultural essay, “The Good Daughter,” the writer talks about her childhood and how to identify her own self in an immigrant family. Hwang writes “I identify with Americans but Americans do not identify with me.”. The author grew up as an American in the United States by her…

“Lost Sister” by Cathy Song presents the universal struggle of women in finding who they are in society as observed in two different environments. The first half of the poem is in China and presents the women as united as sisters, but in the second half in America one sister becomes lost. Song is able to use inclusive terms such as sisters and they to show to juxtapose the you that both relate to the universal struggle i to create a helplessness to the poem that truly encompasses what a lost…

In the passage The Rules of the Game, there is a little girl named Waverly througout the story she is torn apart by two cultures American and Chinese while her mother on the other hand is all for the Chinese culture. In the text we see this many times like when Waverly's mom said "in Chinese we say" and "Chinese people do buisness, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people" This is showing us that Waverly's mother does not care for American culture. But Waverly on the otherhand…

According to “ Mute in an English-only World” by Chang-Rae Lee, for Lee’s mother English sometimes made her hurt. English was not so funny for her and always caused troubles. She had lots of harrowing experiences because she could not speak English fluently. I can understand that feeling. I have made a lot of jokes due to the language barrier since I arrive in the United States, and some of them were embarrassing. One incident happened during the first time I went to New York City. My friends…

America was the place where it could all happen, where you could become who ever you wanted; a true hostess for a life of greatness. Ni Kan, daughter of the recently immigrated Mother from China, who after having lost everything back home, sets eyes on her daughter as the entertainer of America’s perceived promise of excellence. Ni Khan's mother, having a skewed idea of the journey to fame and riches enlisted the life of Ni Kan, of one in which she for ever performed incompetently in her…

“Counting by 7s” will Make You Want to Count Your Blessings One of this year’s Sunshine State books by Holly Goldberg Sloan entitled “Counting by 7s” is by far one of this year’s preeminent Sunshine State books. I personally believe you will take pleasure in reading this novel about loss, friendship, and love. A young genius girl named Willow Chance learns to bond with other people and has to find a new family after her parents died in a car accident. The main characters in the book are Willow…

Jing-mei was happy just being herself, but, unfortunately, her mother expected more. Jing-mei’s mother pushed her to become famous. She thought that was what’s best for Jing-mei. “Just like you,” she said, “Not the best because you are not trying.” (Tan, pg. 35) She tried everything in her power to make Jing-mei talented in some way. She pushes Jing-mei right over the edge. Jing-mei soon found her true, aggressive nature. She realized that her mother thinks that she is not good enough so she is…

The book, Make Lemonade, the author, Virginia Euwer Wolff is sending a message to us, the readers, that we are very lucky to be where we are, and many aren’t as lucky as us. One of the main characters, Jolly, shows this through her struggles of poverty, teen pregnancy, unemployment, and sexual harassment. In the beginning of the book, the main character, Verna LaVaughn, or just LaVaughn is trying to find a job to save up for college. She finds a babysitting job for a teen named Jolly who has two…