Jamila Lyiscottt in “3 ways to speak English” highlights the depths of how her different ways of speaking, effect’s people’s views of her. “But do not judge by my language and assume that I’m ignorant to teach cause I speak three tongues.” She correlates the idea of her “three tongues” to the idea of people assuming that because she has many ways of speaking English she is unable to teach in a professional setting. She highlights the idea of people having a predispose-notion of when you speak three English’s your non-intellectual. Jamila highlights the ways she speaks three different English’s and the languages as borrowed.She goes on to say “I know I had to borrow your language because mines was stolen from me,” she ties her different ways of speaking to the history of oppression and addresses that she chooses to treat each English as equals. She highlight’s how she chooses to carry history in the ways in which she speaks her accented English’s by stating “Cause I speak three tongues, one for each home,school, friends,” she goes on to say how she is able to to fluently address people in different settings. Her talk was based on how the English language should be multifaceted and articulation should not be based on one way of speaking.
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Excellent use of the MEAL strategy here Fiord. The next thing you want to work on is eliminating the “hows” of the paragraph. What if you just said She highlights the history of her accented English by stating, “….”