"Mother Tongue " by Amy Tan (2006)

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"Mother Tongue " by Amy Tan (2006) The author in the text, Tan, is fascinated by language and relates her mother’s experiences with language to orient readers about discrimination that occurs because of people being perceived as speaking “broken English” full of grammatical mistakes and creating the impression that they have difficulties in mastering language.

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However, despite the author’s mother being considered as speaking “broken English” she grasps better English despite her limitations conversing in English as she can read high-level papers and documents, thus “mother tongue” brings to attention the misleading illusion that language can be used to gauge one’s language level. The setting creates the impression that one may have intelligent thoughts, but find themselves unable to express their thoughts in understandable words when special situations arises. Therefore, an individual’s language may me expressive enough even when their English speaking is limited.

References Tan, A. (2006). Mother Tongue. 1-4