homework due on Jan 28th

About “From Ghetto Lady to Critical Linguist”

Not only African-American people have accents when talking, most international students like us are facing linguistic problem like imperfect and broken English. We feel ourselves being unfairly treated by some locals because of our accents and somehow awful pronunciations of some words. However, English is our second language and which sometimes force me asking some Americans whether they can speak any other languages except Spanish. As we, students who might have accent and language barriers, are trying our best to improve our usage of English, local speakers should show respects and kindness rather than laughing and discriminating. Lots of my American friends are friendly in helping me improving my English which I really appreciated, language is tools of communication, therefore a better understand of English can help us perceive the society here.

About “Mother Tongue”
Living environment, especially people around us, plays a vital role in influencing our behavior in life and also the spoken language we using. We, kids, like imitating what father and mother do and say. That’s why we always saying parents are our first teacher in life. However, some students may fall in trouble because of their accents as their parents have, which may also affect on their friendship and socialization. Some students are ashamed to their parents and even blame at them, however in my opinion parents are people who give you the birth, we should be proud of what we have and try to preserve them. The best way to develop yourself is to keep what you have, and absorb what is new.

homework due on Jan 23th

1. Personal information
2. Experience (internship and work)
3. Business activity
4. Community academic and technical skills
5. Plans about future
6. Personal enchantment
7. Interpersonal interaction
9. Habits
10. Physical condition



Community, academic and technical skills:

1. Ability to cooperate with people
2. Ability to communicate
3. Ability to contact new things
4. Ability to use computer
5. Ability to play any music instruments
6. Ability to have well organization about life
7. Ability to drive
8. Ability to drink
9. Ability to negotiate
10. Ability to play games

homework due on Jan 16th

Language is what we write, what we speak and what we trying to communicate in our daily life. Our talks, our speeches, our disclosures and the writings, essays and novels that written by human beings are forms of language, which can be considered to be an indication of our normal life. “Language reflects and shapes our thinking, but our thinking can also go to another room and play with things that precede or go beyond words.” This statement is stated by Patricia Dunn in the article “Challenging theories of knowing”. Languages help us describing things happening around us, which also allow us to use different forms of language to understand the world we living.
Ann E. Berthoff, who has a significant influence in academic-writing field, said “those learning to write and to teach writing will discover that language is itself the great heuristic”. In this case, Berthoff has definitely considered language as the most important intellectual tool. Therefore in my opinion, Language is something can not only help us perceive the world, but also itself acts as a deep headspring that has abundant knowledge attracting us to discover and perceive.

1st week, we are always sleepy

sleepy sleepy sleepy....
I hate early morning class..don't you?