My Journey of Literacy
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2018 2:21 am
My Journey of Literacy
Mengling Y.
After reading the story of Connor's story about his personal attitude towards literacy and his individual experience of how to search for literacy, I find several factors that account for his acquisition of reading and writing skills. In terms of the experience of mine, these factors also help me figure sectional reasons out why I failed to have a favoring reading and writing process.
First is background. Conner said that he was born in a place where attach importance to literacy. In this way, it makes citizens concern about literacy naturally and inherently. As for me, I was growing up in a small county of Dali in Yunnan province. By the way, that not mean that my hometown doesn't accept the idea that the literacy is important. I mean the majority of people of my hometown understand the significance of literacy, but their awareness of how to become literate or how to help juveniles become literate was largely absent. In the course that I grow older, there was everybody around me would say that I should be a sensible child and be a good student, but no one gave me a book to read or told me that except obtaining knowledge from textbooks I should also get more from extracurricular books.
The second thing is guidance. Whatever you do a good guider is an undisputed evoker of interest that is the basis of motivation. In comparison to Conner, I'm not so lucky to have a wonderful guider like mother as my first teacher at my enlightenment stage. My father only completed 5 years of primary education who approximate an illiteracy. In order to make a living my mother who ever received middle school education left my hometown when I was about 4 years old. Moreover, those who around me seemed to have no idea about what the actual reading was. Therefore, I started my journey of reading very late.
Third is resources. Except my textbook I used, there almost weren't much of available books for me to read in my house all of days. Until I was in middle school I came to realize that there was something called library in my hometown. Besides, in my mind, the most sorts of in bookstores were countless materials for the full preparation of examinations. Thus, compare to Connor I was perfectly missed the chances to have the taste of reading at home, local library or bookstores.
Apart from the reasons I mentioned above, the other pivotal reason that takes responsibility for my little interest in reading is I had no idea how to choose and read a book properly. The first kind of book the I really involved in was too difficult for me to follow very well when I was in middle school. Those books like Water Margin that written in traditional Chinese and Sophie's World that talked about philosophy. When I entered high school I became a science student and I thought that there was not so meaningful and necessary for a science student to read a lot. Even if I had recited many quotes about the benefits reading like" books are the ladder of human progress", " book a house of gold" etc. Hence reading appeared at a low position in my past years.
But now, I come to aware that there is no excuse for me to neglect the importance of reading anymore. As a university student, I am lucky enough to encounter so many excellent new friends, classmates and teachers. I realize more and more that most shinning views of them are related to their better grasp of literacy than me. They can express themselves logically and clearly with convincing evidences that some the them are stored in their brains by reading anteriorly. Furthermore, I agree with Conner's viewpoint that it is impossible to be a totally literate person but whenever you speak, read and write you will get more then you already had. Recently, as a novice, I have been beginning to go further on my journey of literacy by starting reading more and writing more based on the suggestions from my teachers and friends and individual interest.
Mengling Y.
After reading the story of Connor's story about his personal attitude towards literacy and his individual experience of how to search for literacy, I find several factors that account for his acquisition of reading and writing skills. In terms of the experience of mine, these factors also help me figure sectional reasons out why I failed to have a favoring reading and writing process.
First is background. Conner said that he was born in a place where attach importance to literacy. In this way, it makes citizens concern about literacy naturally and inherently. As for me, I was growing up in a small county of Dali in Yunnan province. By the way, that not mean that my hometown doesn't accept the idea that the literacy is important. I mean the majority of people of my hometown understand the significance of literacy, but their awareness of how to become literate or how to help juveniles become literate was largely absent. In the course that I grow older, there was everybody around me would say that I should be a sensible child and be a good student, but no one gave me a book to read or told me that except obtaining knowledge from textbooks I should also get more from extracurricular books.
The second thing is guidance. Whatever you do a good guider is an undisputed evoker of interest that is the basis of motivation. In comparison to Conner, I'm not so lucky to have a wonderful guider like mother as my first teacher at my enlightenment stage. My father only completed 5 years of primary education who approximate an illiteracy. In order to make a living my mother who ever received middle school education left my hometown when I was about 4 years old. Moreover, those who around me seemed to have no idea about what the actual reading was. Therefore, I started my journey of reading very late.
Third is resources. Except my textbook I used, there almost weren't much of available books for me to read in my house all of days. Until I was in middle school I came to realize that there was something called library in my hometown. Besides, in my mind, the most sorts of in bookstores were countless materials for the full preparation of examinations. Thus, compare to Connor I was perfectly missed the chances to have the taste of reading at home, local library or bookstores.
Apart from the reasons I mentioned above, the other pivotal reason that takes responsibility for my little interest in reading is I had no idea how to choose and read a book properly. The first kind of book the I really involved in was too difficult for me to follow very well when I was in middle school. Those books like Water Margin that written in traditional Chinese and Sophie's World that talked about philosophy. When I entered high school I became a science student and I thought that there was not so meaningful and necessary for a science student to read a lot. Even if I had recited many quotes about the benefits reading like" books are the ladder of human progress", " book a house of gold" etc. Hence reading appeared at a low position in my past years.
But now, I come to aware that there is no excuse for me to neglect the importance of reading anymore. As a university student, I am lucky enough to encounter so many excellent new friends, classmates and teachers. I realize more and more that most shinning views of them are related to their better grasp of literacy than me. They can express themselves logically and clearly with convincing evidences that some the them are stored in their brains by reading anteriorly. Furthermore, I agree with Conner's viewpoint that it is impossible to be a totally literate person but whenever you speak, read and write you will get more then you already had. Recently, as a novice, I have been beginning to go further on my journey of literacy by starting reading more and writing more based on the suggestions from my teachers and friends and individual interest.