CL (HOMEWORK 2)

HOMEWORK 2
READING 3.1 (PLEASE, LET ME GO YOUR SCHOOL)

From the article “Please let me go to your school”, Scarlett Finney a daughter of Scott and Bernadette Finney was being discrimination by The Hills Grammer School. She was being discriminated because of her disabilities by having spina bifida that forces her to use wheelchair. Scarlet was born with a lesion in her spine that has caused paralysis of the feet and incontinence. The Hills Grammer School refused to accept her because at that school even kindergarten children had to move many times a day. However, the parents defend their daughter by saying that Scarlett is able to walk short distances, and use ordinary toilets. It is clear from what the writer had wrote that Scarlett is an independent child and should be given a chance for her to study there.

READING 3.3 (CRITICAL LITERACY, “ A LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE”)

Group 5, Faiz and Fiqa had present topic 5. from the discussion, Critical literacy is a linguistic perspective that in a text should consist five important elements they are genre, field, mode, tenor, and ideology. To identify either a text is a discussion is, it have positive and negative about a certain idea, while for report, it is a straight forward text. It does not discuss about positive or negative of the idea. This chapter also discuss about ideological position. Ideological position also can be divided into two they are overt and covert. Overt can be defined as a open or shown openly while covert cover about thick undergrowth where animals hide. As a conclusion, this topic illustrate some explicit knowledge about language.

READING 3.4 (SPEECH AND SPEAKERS: THE FORMATION OF INDIVIDUALS IN DISCOURSE AND GENRE)

Group 6, Eqin and Ain had present topic 6. From my understanding, this topic is all about the difference act towards different gender and sexism. It is also related with discrimination towards certain people because of their weaknesses. The thing that should be stress in this topic is about discourse. Discourse can be defined as a serious speech, piece of writing or serious conversation. Under discourse is sexism which is the unfair treatment of people towards certain person. For example, there are two female are apply for the job. Female A is a very attractive person, have a good look and figure. On the other hand female B is a low profile person but have a lot of experiences. However, female A is the one that manage to get the job. This is what we call sexism discourse generally.