reading 3

Assalamualaikum Mdm. How r u today??? Hope you’re doing fine because I need you to check and comments on my third blog and topic. As you know, our class, Decom 4B had spent one whole week in reading, viewing, presenting and discussing on the third topic which is positioning: how does the writer construct the participants in the text and how is the readers constructed? As for this topic, it had introduced me to a new whole new way of approaching and focusing on the positioning in Critical Literacy. It also provides me with extra practice in applying the core skills that involved in Critical Literacy such as positioning. In particular, the text had been accentuating the role played by positioning in understanding text.

In the class, we were given the articles to explore and to be critical on the article titled ‘Please Let Me Go to Your School’ and ‘Truth about Youth’. For the article Please Let Me Go to Your School, it want to inform the readers about a discrimination case against The Bulkham Hill Grammar School for refused to accept Scarlett Finney who is suffering from a physical disability. For me, I think it is unfair for the school for not to let Scarlet Finney in and attend the school as other disabilities students did because the school’s prospectus already stated that the school will accept disability students but at the end, the school refusal to accept Finney.

The other article which is the ‘Truth about Youth’ wants to inform us about the problems that the youngster are facing which can lead to a huge impact to their lives and also to the people around them. As for me, students who are facing any problems should refer or go and having small talk with their teachers and parents. Discuss about the problems they are facing instead of doing something stupid like commit suicide. It is very stupid things to do for educated people. Besides, there are ten elements that we should consider of in reviewing those articles. The article Please Let Me Go to Your School is much easier than the article Truth about Youth. For me, the article is a bit difficult to understand and it is difficult to identify the writer’s position in the text but I’ve tried my best to complete all the ten elements in it. Hope Mdm would satisfy and please let me know if I’m doing any mistakes so that I can consult with you and could do better in the next ten elements.

The third topic has two types of reading by two different authors which is reading 3.3 written by Wignell (1995), ‘Critical Literacy a Linguistic Perspective’ and the second one is reading 3.4 written by Kress(1994), ‘Speech and Speakers’. From the first reading, Wignell’s approach is to develop the linguistic tools readers need to enable them to recognize certain global or key elements of a text. Wignell’s aim is to discover elements of the language so as to dig out the ideology that exists, as it ideology may in fact be shown to be highly ideological. From this first reading, I just can understand a bit from Shah and Minor’s presentation.

For the second reading, Kress shows how texts construct particular identities for their readers through a process called positioning. He describes how texts introduce readers into particular value systems as well as certain norms and modes of behavior. In explaining how texts achieve this, Kress introduces and clarifies a number of important terms. This reading 3.4 presented by Leah, Pia and Ika is quite easy to understand as they had stated the example clearly.

that's all for now....
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