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    Languge is imperative since it's one of the fundamental approaches to convey and communicate with other individuals around us. Dialect reflects character it uncovers our identity both personally and socially. In Mother Tongue, by Amy Tan, Tan talks about the social battles she encountered through her mom, and her combat of identity in her written work. In the article If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? James Baldwin attempted to clarify that despite the fact that…

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    Mother Tongue Summary The essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan portrays society’s ignorance towards individuals differences from societal norms. As a result of this ignorance, individuals are treated insignificantly. Amy Tan and her mother struggle with this issue throughout their lives, constantly being treating insignificantly and not taken seriously. As a result Amy is ashamed of where she comes from and how her mother speaks. Amy eventually comes to peace with where she comes from and…

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    the article "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan, the author is talking about how growing up she had two different sets of English to use. A broken English with her mother and a more structured English with everyone else. She also sometimes had to speak on the phone for her mother because it was hard to understand her. I can understand how hard it is to understand someone who doesn't speak English very well. When she claimed, she was angry with her mother and even at the people treating her mother poorly…

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    When re-reading "Mother Tongue" By Amy Tan, the author has gone into details expressing a portion of her life growing up with the man Englishes that she has had. Between unconsciously switching from "proper" English to a " broken" form only spoken between her family, this has allowed her to overcome several adversities in her life. Due to these challenges, having a "limited" or "broken" language it still has made an impact and impression on her mother. The author's claim is that, even in her…

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    Tan describes how her mother insisted that “she had spoken very good English, her best English, no mistakes. Still, she said, the hospital did not apologize when they said they had lost the CAT scan and she had come for nothing.”(Tan). Like the narrator in Tan’s essay, I had to jump in and help my mother solve a problem by speaking English. While the problems we were trying to solve were different, the language…

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    Summary Of Mother Tongue

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    In “Mother Tongue,” Amy tan describes when she uses different Englishes to interact with particular people in her life. By different Englishes she’s referred to Standard and Nonstandard English. One of the main reasons why Tan uses both of these Englishes is because majority of the people living in the United States they communicate by using different Englishes. Therefore Tan wants to be understood by the people who might speak or understand English differently. (Missing thesis) Standard…

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    social and emotional issues. In the texts “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan and “Achievement of Desire” by Richard Rodriquez the readers are able to experience how bilingualism can affect the way individuals interact. Sometimes the language spoken at home is different from the language spoken in the outside world. Bilingualism is something that should not change the relationship with…

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    of where we go, language has a major effect on our lifestyle. It plays a major role when we are searching for a job because most employers are seeking people who can speak languages that meet the needs of their clients. From reading Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue,” we are informed of how she portrays her English language as a daughter, student and as a writer. Like Amy Tan, I was raised in a bilingual family and the transition from one language to another…

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    Influence Of Mother Tongue

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    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…

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    Mother Tongue Argument

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    author's goal and re-state the claim to be addressed in your analysis essay. Has the author's goal changed with this analytical reading of the text? If so, how? If not, why not? In a literal analysis of the article, Tan states in her subtitle that "Mother Tongue" is about creating an argument against making judgments based on a person command of the English language. In approaching the text from an analytical perspective, the initial message is supported and expanded upon. Tan claims that by…

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