What Goes on Between Reality and Theory

Class Review 7

What Goes on Between Reality and Theory

The atmosphere still goes on and on.  Still in talking about literacy.  Before going to the main discussion in this class review, I would like to show that some theories that exist in the writing class is really happen in the reality.  Today is a great day, I had a golden opportunity in this morning, 9 a.m, in Rektorat Building (3^rd floor).  There was a special guest.  A linguist from IOWA University, William D Davies.  Now he concerns in research in Badui-West Java, he learns and researches on how Madurese and Javanese use the language.  The theme was linguistic and he explained the notions very detail in an hour season.

From the whole presentation, I got a connected link between Mr.Davies and what I have been learned in writing class:

1.      In the first meeting of writing class, there was a notion from Hyland: 2003.  “Learning in the second language is one of the most challenging aspects of second language learning.  Even for those who speak English as the first language, the ability to write affectively is something that requires specialized instruction.”  This notion also told in this morning when Mr.Davies told us there are complexities in writing especially for English as the foreign language (EFL).  There are many culture will affect someone’s mind, and someone’s do, also someone actualize themselves in writing will be influenced by the culture itself.  Additionally, when my host in the writing class, Mr.Bumela told that the first language (L1) is the foundation for the second language(L2), meaning that environment will set up a whole people do and write.

2.      Hyland also told that literacy is something we do.  As long as language takes a part in linguistic.  It also will be part in the literacy zone.  Mr.Davies showed human being needs a language, language is a window through human mind.  As a human being, usually we actualize ourselves through speaking in several languages.  Language is something people do in everyday, day and night.  Even though, language is complicated but he told that every language is important, and surprisingly he thought that Madurese and Javanese are interesting and important view.  He sees that Madurese has different role in using language, and Javanese as well.

All of these interesting make me proud as the learner.  Not only what a have been learned is connected with an expert but also because he see some culture is an interesting thing to be pointed out.  For about 7 years he learned in Javanese language, and as the one of Indonesian I think this is the time to Indonesian to be proud.

Let’s turn to the class

There are some points missing in my class review before:

1.      Ideology

Ideology: Set of believe

(Hyland: 2006) since there are no neutral in literacy, ideology must be involved in literacy.  Hyland told that identity of the author is like performance.  Identity is something we do; not something we have.  Almost everything we say or write, in fact, says something about us and the kind of relationship we want to establish with others.  Someone’s ideology will affect the environment through their written.  In such situations students/readers are often uncertain about who they are expected to be, and often feel more constructed by their text than constructing them.  They adopt such identity/ideology.  Essentially, people do not define themselves only by one group membership and belong to different groups, so that their commitment and experiences often overlap and perhaps conflict.  This is how the way socio cultural: gender, social class, age, religion, ethnicity, regional background are the keys aspect in influencing someone ideology authority identity.

2.      History

History like poets, uncovers in ever new situations, the human possibilities here to fore hidden.  There is a connection between history and poetry, history will show the fact and it is a mission of the poets as well.  Since history affect culture in society, so language takes a big part in the cycles.  Language is always improved from year to year and specific teaching material will become increasingly available.  Discipline lavations raises a number of key issues concerning what it mean to interact within a discipline, the connection between knowledge and discourse, and the influence of the communities and cultures on communications.

From the class I found an interesting thing in how historian, linguist, and poet work together to show the truth.

Special Rectangle

Three of them have a task in discovering the truth rather than invents.  They are likely being someone who bring the truth behind the story rather than being pioneer for something new.  Reality that always be an object for history is also is a big mission for poet, as a poet they should let the reader or listener knows about truths, they must refuse the truths before hand, truths already ‘Obvious’ because floating in the surface.  This case also happens in linguist, they tell the truth in different area, in academic area.

In each member in special rectangle, we have several points as the object should be pointed out.  There are meaning, values, and views in social relations, belief system, custom, and habits and the usage of the material world and its object.

Mikko Lehtonen also stated that literacy is a part of human’s construction.  Human are growing with all the symbols of literacy, they are affected and constructed by them.  Like in daily life, when human being got the morning paper, the favorite TV show and the novel by the bed produce a certain sense of order.  This thing participates in the construction of our everyday lives and ourselves in many ways we tend to overlook for the very reason of their commonness.

So that I can conclude that the special rectangle tackles their job s tattler.  They are all in one package, go together in showing the truth history, theory and reality.  They have a gun, namely literacy that can make them, not invincible.  They use the symbol of life to understand values and ideology.  They read and analyze what happen in the reality and they show what should be showed to the people in the world, that’s why I called them special.

Thank you,

Susi Nurjanah