Writing Assignment No.5

Frank/ Rui Wang

Writing Assignment No.5

The first audio of a young woman tells us about her first experience of writing and giving a speech in front of the public which make her feel the strength of a speech to a group of people.

In the second video, the woman tell us about how she has been loving the magazine ‘ Weekly Entertainment’ since her childhood and how that magazine affects her way of writing and her behavior.

The third audio of a man recounts 2 significant literacy narrative experiences in his life which help him develop a good reading habit. One is that when he was 4^th grade, his teacher asked them to read an article along with her and the man pointed out several mispronunciations of the teacher which made the teacher didn’t like him. The second is that when he was in 6^th grade, whenever he took math classes, he read his own books without listening to the teacher’s lectures no matter where he sat which made his math teacher not like him and told his parents about it.

The fourth audio narrates a life experience of a boy which changed the boy from not liking reading at all to indulging in reading. Their teacher took them to a library and let them read books they like. However, the boy just found a place to play with his pencil and thought about something about aliens.  When the boy was caught playing with a pencil by the teacher, the teacher took him to a book shelf and pulled out a book which she thought the boy might be interested in. After rejecting the teacher’s suggestion first, the boy began reading the book unwillingly. At first, the boy wanted to hand the book back to the teacher for a picture of a girl on the cover. However, when starting reading the book, he found several things that were appealing to him which let him continue reading until the time to leave the library. Since then, the boy found reading very constructive and beneficial to their life.

The last audio mainly tells us about the process of how the girl became fond of computer and how the surrounding circumstances change her in choosing an English major instead of computer.

In my personal perspective, I am convinced that literacy learning is the most significant and indispensable process one must experience in his life which is quite constructive and beneficial to one’s future life and work. During our literacy learning process, what we need to do is not only just to learn the knowledge in the book but also to apply what we have learned to our daily life, including having a daily communication with other people in the society, reading corresponding books once we have learned something in order to be familiar with them, listening to speeches or giving a speech in front of a group of people just like the girl in the first audio did  in her middle school even though she was shy and she first felt the power of a speech(summarized from the first audio) and so on. Sometimes, a literacy experience can be quite accidental. The boy’s experience in the fourth audio can substantiate my point. According to the fourth audio, the boy originally didn't like reading at all until the teacher asked him to read a book for the boy’s sneaky playing with his pencil and that’s when he first found reading appealing and interesting. Moreover, he found reading a constructive tool to enlarge one’s vision.  A literacy experience can also shape one’s behavior and even style of writing. The woman in the second video tells us a true story about herself which directly illustrates my point. The women has been reading ‘Weekly Magazine’ since she was a child and gradually , her writing style as writer was shaped resulted from her continuing reading of ‘Weekly Magazine’ and so was her behavior.( Summarized from the second video)

All in all, literacy experiences are quite precious and significant for us to succeed .