homework 3

 In Gee's book, he discussed about discourse. Which is a way to get educate, absorb new knowledges and get connect with the world. In the book, discourse is define like this: a socially accepted association among ways of using language, of thinking, and of acting that can be used to identify oneself as a member of a socially meaningful group or "social network". So discourse is also literacy. For linguist, discourse is a way to show people how to talk and what to talk, is the art of talking, evert act in the discourse are symbolizing something. Discourse can also be separate by two branches, one is acquisition another one is learning. Acquisition is the way that people study by born ability and the learning process is to study by the normal way and study the grammar of the language. The writer said he has a reading classes in the school when he was study another language. Acquisition and learning are both using in the discourse. Acquisition is more like literacy, it can the control of the secondary language use, the secondary language can be control and be noted. But the first language is more like to be accept. So in the discourse, learning looks more easer to people and it suppose to be an ability of kids, they will use that ability in the future. Linguist skills should be learned and it should be practiced under a good environment.