Warm up 2

On page 141 he says "Mys tudents needed to be immersed in talking, reading and writing, they needed to further develop their ability to think critically, and they needed to gain the confidence in themselves as systematic inquirers. They had to be let into the academic club." I think that this relates to what we were discussing as far as insiders tatus. They msispelled words or wrote fragments or dropped verb endings and this made barriers between them and others. This "labeled" them as undeducated or below. He goes on to say "Mys tduents, too, were strangers in a strange land, and I wanted to create a safe section of the city and give them an oportunity to acquire the language." So he did this by bringing in newspapers, magazines song lirics and political pamphlets to actually study and analyze language int he real world. He would have them summarize short readings, and moced from comparing and contrasting, to anaylizing and took babysteps to help them master what they were doing. I think he was fearful that he would overwhelm them and make them feel like more of an outsider instead of making them feel like an insider from gaining this knowledge through immersion. He also used excerpts, like sentences to compare instead of whole essays. That way it was easier to tackle. He also provided context and prepared these readings and writings in order so that they were easy to accomplish, and the students were able to build upon them to reach the larger goal of writing an essay or analyzing a main text.