Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Final blog entry!

Every international students has their own unique experience. because of their dual language ability, they would have lot of more different experience than natice american students. when they first time came to this campus, they must had some difficulties in a lot of situations. herer is the list:
1. got lost by looking the map
2. having trouble to ask other students for direction ( wrong pronounciation)
3. have some arguments because using wrong words
4. making some awkward moments by pick wrong word to express
5. have wrong drinks
6. being mocked by other because they don't know how to express themselves
7.too shy to make friends
those thing would make our international students have some struggle but they would be alright after couple months. those experience would be very precious when we think about it after a while.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

blog entry 4/14

In every culture, people would try to invent many skills and technologies to improve their life such as, transportation improvement, making a ideal stuff for their capital, and language invention.In " Writing and Recording Knowledge", author talked about the writing system in Pre-Columbian. The language style they used is just like graph, each thing had their own meaning and they did not have any word to represent verb. For instance, the graph of human can be different because of wearing , showing the power they have by what they holding, and showing the scene of execution. comparing to the writing system in chinese, it had some different part.
In Chinese culture, the writing system was changed a lot by the time. At the beginning of inventing language in ancient china, the writing system they used just like Pre-Columbian. Every word just looked like graph and did not have any word to present verb. They kept improving the writing system thus it not only started to have verb tobut also the outlook of the words becoming elegance. the writing system also create many adjactive words to make the letter decently.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

homework 04/08

After read this article, literacy extend some part of technology. Literacy give technology more opportunities to create some new ways to express texts such as, Instant message, text message, and blog. it gives people have more options to communicate with friends and family. on the opposite, technology also gives literacy different looks. technology development make literacy have decent expression; for instence, blake and white movie turns to colorful, stardard way for music preserver changes to digital, and drawing picture in the computer. if we do not have technology booming, our literacy would be really narrow. therefore, technology booming various literacy options.