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and forcefully attempts to make her change. As a result, Anzaldua illustrates her hardship to the attention of an English speaker as an audience. Throughout the reading, she consistently switches from English to Spanish in many paragraphs forcing a non-Spanish speaker, such as myself, to look up translations an order to make sense of the story. An example of this would be when her mother expresses her disappointment saying, “I want you to speak English. PA hallar buen trabajo hablas

This paper will talk about the best way I feel is to reach the linguistic needs of my students. There were about twenty-five ELL students in my classroom this past semester, however, I only worked with six. All the ELL students in my class were Spanish speakers as their first language. Although I didn’t work with these students more than once a week, I gained a good enough sense of my six students I will be keeping them in mind as I write this paper. There were five boys and one girls. I addressed

seen as foreign, exotic, and interesting or it can be viewed as an inferiority, a disability, or an unpleasant attribute. I had the luxury of being seen as interesting and exotic by my classmates. I grew up in a small town and was one of the few Spanish-speaking students in my school. Thankfully, I did not have to deal with racial slurs or discrimination as constantly as students in more densely populated school systems. The lack of prejudice helped positively shape my culture identity, but prejudice

Before I took my math class, I had heard that my professor is a Chinese who had an very heavy accent. Most of my American friends try to switch to another session to avoid this professor. After almost the whole semester study in his class I had figure out that he is an really good math professor who is really good at teaching students and is an expert in the math area. However, his “limit English skill” had became the largest barrier for students to understand his class. For me, an international

cultural traitors and that they’re speaking the oppressors’ language and ruining the Spanish language when they are heard speaking English by Latinos (Anzaldúa, 17). They are made to feel as if they need to choose a sole identity to represent and anything other than that is going to be looked down on. Chicanos have felt as if they didn’t belong anywhere, so they created an identity to fit in and belong to “Chicano Spanish sprang out of the Chicanos’ need to identify ourselves as a distinct people” (Anzaldúa

Spanish is a wonderful language, and one of the most spoken in the world. The growing popularity is a factor of its geographically widespread demographics, the increasing economic influence of Latin America, the rich culture associated with its speakers and its popularity on the Internet (surpassed only by English). It is the second world language after English and the second most studied in the world. There are many reasons to learn the language of Cervantes. Here are a few for you to chew on.

Throughout the writing, the author, Gloria Anzaldúa conveys multiple times how her relationship with her language and her history have impacted her. The author says on page 26, “Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity – I am my language” (Anzaldúa, pg. 26). Prior to writing this, the author was writing about how she and other Chicano/Chicana people were being unequally and unfairly treated, simply due to their culture and the language(s) they spoke. By saying this, the author shows that

is likely to suddenly happened, they are rationalized in doctrine and belief, and evolve over many centuries with changing attitudes. The Spanish Inquisition is the best known of all the Inquisitions in history due how gruesome and violent the torture and trials were and how widespread the Inquisition was. Spain had long been shared, geographically, by Spanish Christians, Jews and Muslims There was a recurring theme in Christian circles of the desire to convert all of Spain to Christianity, to either

Activist, Gloria Anzaldua’s narrative excerpt “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” She goes into the depth of ethnic identity While knocking down walls of linguistic and identity down. How one would identify themselves while broadcasting the struggles any person with culture has felt. She uses ethos, pathos, and logos alongside all five senses, making the reader feel they witness the efforts she went through if not observe then actually experienced. Anzaldua's thesis is that language is a part of one’s identity

individuals communicate at home in comparison to how they interact with others outside. Depending on who they encounter and how often, the results of their familiarity with their first and second language varies greatly. The tenant’s first language is Spanish, however, Zentella discerns the assorted progression of their first language. She finds that after moving to an English speaking country, they either get consumed by the second language, are stuck with only learning a few words to get by comfortably