Rui Wang/ Frank
Writing assignment No.1
After carefully reading
through the whole passage, I have a deeper comprehension about how we can grasp
a written language proficiently -----direct learning or acquisition.(
Summarized from the passage Written and Second Language Acquisition) Some of
the phenomenon talked in the passage really happens in my life and I will talk
about it combining the information in the passage.
First, the author talks about
2 exactly different views about how children should be taught to read------one
is Word Recognition View which states that written language should be learned
and another one is Sociopsycholinguistic view which believes that written language
can be acquired through specific ways. Mainly, Word Recognition View believes
that the essential task that students will accomplish is to identify words and
try to remember them. If the word is long, the student can break the word into
several parts that they are familiar with and try to integrate the meanings of
each part into one to get the meaning of the word. On the contrary,
Sociopsycholinguistic View holds that the main task will be to combine their
background information with the cues on the textbooks in order to get the
meaning. And they believe that students can not just break a sentence into
several parts in order to understand it so that it is not a useful way to
figure out the meaning of a sentence or a single word.(Summarized from the
paragraphs in this passage)
Secondly, the author focuses
on the how students practice written language in classrooms. The Word
Recognition View advocates that the teacher will pre-teach the words that most
students don’t understand, let them look up the words they find to be difficult
and remember the definitions. However, Sociopsycholinguistic View believes that
the teachers will give students some useful strategies in order to help them
when they have difficult constructing meanings in a text, which improves their
reading proficiency to a large extent..(Summarized from the paragraphs in this
passage)
Finally, the author
emphasizes on the differences between Learning View and Acquisition View
concerning the study of writing. In a traditional classroom, teachers teach
writing by breaking a whole article into several individual components and
teach each part to the students so that the students will know the structure of
a whole writing which is very beneficial for their future writing. For
correctness, the teachers in a traditional classroom correct each of the
students’ writings, especially making sure that the spelling of each word is
correct. However. In a process classroom, the teacher will let the students be
versatile, not just knowing the structure of a piece of writing; and the
teacher will let the students produce several different kinds of writing .For
correctness, the teacher will let the students exchange their writings with
each other and correct each other’s writings so that everyone can get feedbacks
from their classmates and then the teachers will revise their writings so that
the students will know where they use inappropriate sentences or words that
confuses the teacher and their classmates so that they will make modification
to that writing following social rules in order to make their writings more
comprehensible.( Summarized from the paragraphs in this passage)
In my personal perspective, I
am convinced that written language can be acquired through some specific ways.
When I was in kindergarten, I really can’t recognize the words on Chinese
textbooks. My Chinese teacher used a very efficient way to help us recognize
the words-----first, they first copied down the words from the textbooks onto
the blackboard; then, she read the words aloud to us accompanying by pointing
to the wording she was reading so that we could find the same words on our
textbook and then we can combine the pronunciation of the teacher with what our
parents taught us. Finally, the teacher would explain the words in words that
we could understand so that we could correspond the pronunciation of the words
to the actual words appeared on the textbook and we could both grasp the oral
and written language very well. The method that our teacher used to recognize
written language may be a combination of words recognition and acquisition
methods. Our teacher taught us to identity the words by writing the words on
the blackboard and this method can be a Word Recognition process. According to
the passage, this method will result in the student’s knowing the pronunciation
of the word but not knowing what the word means. (Summarized from the
paragraphs in the passage) To avoid this phenomenon happen, the teacher will
explain the words to us in the words we already know and let us read several
texts in order to be familiar with these words so that we can grasp the oral
and written language simultaneously by combining what the teacher told us with
our oral language (background information) without encountering the situation
as I talked above. So, we can’t emphasize the significance of acquisition in
written language too much.
Shortly, I am convinced that
acquisition plays a much more significant role in written language than
learning does. We should bear in mind that remembering just the spelling and
the handwriting of words is not sufficient for us, we should read more articles
that contains these words to help us become familiar with these words which
could help us acquire these words. Acquisition is nearly a perfect method to use
in grasping written language and it should be advocated.
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