Jiang Meng #2Homework

Write about literacy learning experience you have.

Jiang Meng    WRT103 TR class

Everyone will not ever catch the pace of technology development to become full-degree literate. We will always learn something new in our life. That process is just making us approach perfectly literate infinitely. I am or was not quite a literate person in my life. Learning one new thing is very difficult for everybody because we have no ideas and experiences about it before.

For me, getting to read a book or in another words long passage are very tolerating experiences in my childhood memory. As a young girl, I could not read any book until I graduated from my elementary school. It was quite late for a normal student so I experienced the same kind of shame as the ‘illiterate’ man faked to read newspaper in the bus. In elementary school, I always faked to read books when others did. I held the book in my hands and turned over page when others turned. Actually, I am proud that I could graduate from elementary school without any reading experiences.

When I went to middle school, girls around me started to read romantic novels and they often talked about the content of each novel. If I wanted to make friends with them, I must have to join the talking of their topic. I didn’t want to be an odd. So, one day I went to bookshop and bought three romantic novels. I decided to read and catch up with them. When I sat in front of my desk, I was a little afraid of these books. It was the first time I wanted to read a book. I opened one of the novels and began to read the first page. After reading several chapters, I found that the story is very attractive and touching. Although I cannot remember now what the story is talking about, the only thing I remember is I could not fall asleep until I finished reading one story. Then, I could read another book more easily and quickly.  Later on, I washed up my dread and could start to read novels at any time. But how about my school textbooks? I still could not concentrate on the page or the sentence I was reading. The words or contents in the textbooks were quite boring. I didn’t have patience to understand and refine points from each paragraph. In the second year of middle school, we started to do some physics and chemistry experiments in class. I like practical exercise a lot. So I fell in love with physics and chemistry in a very short period of time. I wanted to know more about the chemical reactions and physical movements so that I had to read more books to get more knowledge. Finishing reading about three chemistry books within one week, I didn’t feel any bored and tired. So, I overcame the fear of reading anything.

From my own experiences, we can easily conclude the best way to learn literacy is motivation and interest. Actually, the best method to learn anything is to find the motivation. If there is not any motivation, we need to create one in that situation.  For instance, I like chocolate very much. I usually force myself to finish reading a chapter this night. If not, I cannot eat chocolate for one week. It also need a strong perseverance to keep this promise with myself.