Dao1 Giang Dao Professor Jan Rieman ENGL 1101-010 February 11, 2013

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Literacy memoir Nowadays, the ability to read and write (literacy) becomes more and more important for everyones life. People who can read and write obviously make more money than people who cannot read and write. Therefore, now almost all people in the world have the ability to read and write. Relating to that, they might have literacy memoir. I also have a literacy memoir. My

Comment: Overall comment: I think you should try to find someone who can help you with your overall English grammar, I can understand what you are trying to say but sometimes there are errors in how you say it.

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family, my teachers, and my friends affect me a lot in literacy. One year before I got first grade, my mother taught me how to speak each letter in Vietnamese, and she also taught me how to write them. Moreover, my parents bought me many books which use for painting and it has name of things and animals on the papers. I was so excited with them. When I daubed on the pictures, my mother taught me what things and animals I was daubing on. I did think that was the first time I had literacy, and I was wrong. Went to the first grade, teachers taught me almost same with what my mother taught me. However, they taught me how to speak some easy words but important like mom, dad, etc. It is some differences way to speak a word between Vietnamese and English. In English, when I see a word which is hard, and I have not heard before, I may speak them wrong, or even English native speakers could be wrong when they speak a hard word they do not know or have not heard that

Comment: Cool, I hope to see this explained further

Dao2 before. However, in Vietnamese, when I see a word, I can read it correctly even I have not heard or know that before because we study how to spell each part of a word, and Vietnamese only has one vowel in each word. Moreover, they taught me how to hold a pen and how to write each
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letter. Second grade marked an important point in my life. I started studying Math. Even it was about numbers with plus and subtract calculations, but it is the basic people need to know to develop their Math skill. I usually used those signals to take notes in secondary school and high school. For example, = usually means equal, or + means and, etc. At the same time, I moved to live with my grandmother who born my mother. She told me many stories with her books. The story I most remember is C b qung khn which is Little Red Riding Hood in English because it is famous and interesting at that age. Therefore, when I look at some words, she taught me how to pronounce and read them. At third grade, I studied multiply and divide calculations. At fifth grade, I started studying English. It was not grammar or structure. It was some formal words that people usually say in English like: Hello, Goodbye, etc. At that time, I started playing games. The first game that I played was Mario with English version. I studied some words after I played it many times. For example, I learned the words: Start, Options, and Quit.

Comment: I like the comparisons between Vietnamese, perhaps you could expand on this or continue this theme through your paper

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Comment: Im interested in hearing more about how learning math related to your literacy

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Comment: Thats a fun way to learn!

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Comment: Good use of a picture, see if you could add more to balance out your paper

Dao3 When I turned to sixth grade, I started studying Principle of Math. It was like some basic rules in Algebra. I also learned how to calculate Perimeter, Area, and Volume. Therefore, I studied some English words because P, A, V are used to stand for Perimeter, Area, and Volume. At that grade to twelfth grade, I also had to read a lot of pieces of many stories in Literature. Up to seventh grade, I had to study materialism and idealism in Citizen Education. It made me two new ideas about life. After that, I studied Marxism. It was really crazy for me when I studied those stuffs. I also had to study Biology and Physics.
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Comment: Glad to see math came back into the discussion

They affected me about some English words like: velocity, time, etc. I started studying Pascal, a programing language, at eighth grade. At that time, I do not know why I started good at Math. Therefore, I have ideas to solve problem when I wrote a program using Pascal. At that time, Literature was harder than it used to be in lower level. I had to analyze each piece of story. It meant to take good ideas of those stories. It really helped my writing skill. I also had to study Vietnamese grammar. Went to high school, because I passed the second best class in my high school, so my parents let me play MMORPG, Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. I

Comment: I like how you are explaining your progressive grasp of more and more english

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Comment: Just curious, what MMORPG did you play?

knew many new people and made many friends by game. In Vietnam, each part usually has its own kind of way to speak words, and they have many different words. I am from the North, and when I went to the mid-part and south-part of Vietnam, people talked, I could not understand even it was Vietnamese. Fortunately, I know many friends, and they helped me a lot about it. They taught me many slang words and how to pronounce them.
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Moreover, my friends in real life usually use words with other meanings. Dao4 When I was in high school, I studied Chemistry. Chemistry has many words I can use for abbreviation. Chemistry also has many English names of many substances, international name. Literature gave me very long novel which I had to spend the whole week to read, respond, and prepare for the class. Math was really useful for me today. I did study Limit, Derivative, Anti-derivative, Linear, and Geometry of space. Before twelfth grade I had choices to study in Vietnam or study abroad, I chose study in Vietnam. However, something came up at twelfth grade, so I decided to study abroad. At that time, I studied listening, reading, and speaking by my-self before I came to the U.S. My parents let me spend more time with the computer to watch movie and read comic. After I arrived the U.S., I joined ELTI, an English institution. I really studied a lot in reading and writing in there. I started studying what an essay is, and how to write an essay. I studied grammar there, but I studied most of them when I was in Vietnam. It was really helpful for writing skill. Not only grammar is important, but also punctuation is important, too. They taught me how to use words and punctuations. Moreover, my

Comment: This is also true in English to a lesser degree, have you learned slang and other things in English?

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Comment: Shouldnt this be at the top of the page?

reading skill in English was developed when they gave me many readings, and I had to prepare for it. As I said that I was wrong about the first time I had literacy. Two days ago, I and my friends had a party for Lunar New Year. Couple of my friends have son. He is almost two years old, but he could not speak any things. However, I noticed that they talked a lot with their son. After that I think my parents also did it with me when I was very young. Therefore, in my opinion the first time I had awareness about literacy when I was a baby.

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Comment: How did some of these things that shaped you relate to what weve read in class or discussed? Perhaps you could talk more about the contrasts between learning in Vietnam and learning here? Im just throwing out ideas That might give you some more length