REFLECTION TOPIC 2

Topic 2 covered three reading which is ‘Language, perspective, ideology’, ‘Texts and textualities’ and ‘Battling the bullies’.

I was interested to over view the article ‘Battling the bullies’. Battling the bullies storied about bully cases happened on a school children who has been tortured by schoolmate. Ms Watson son always gave reason to not go to school session because of the dilemma he faced at school. Sometimes he asked his mother to pick up him, showed his petrified faced so that he could stay at home. The most interesting one is whenever Ms Watson spy out her son at school to find out what exactly happened to her son. After she got the cause of her son behavior change, she referred the problem to the principle. Unfortunately, there is no action taken. She is very responsible mother and concerned about her child routine in all day to give the best education to him. She also makes sure that her son will get the best treat for his own future. For instance, she transferred her son to another school and as the result, her son are looks forward to school each day.

However, there is some part that I difficult to understand in the readings. Based on my reading 2.2 ‘Language, perspective, ideology’, I quite confused about the concepts used of the white perspective, black journalist and the black audience or readers and the relationship between writing and readers perception.
Moreover, words used are high lexis and the examples given are not much in elaboration to the used of the concepts or term mentioned in the reading. The writer should used example by using other different way, so that, readers could understand more such as picture and words together to make a situation or elaboration could be seen clearly.

Next, my over view towards the reading ‘Battling the bullies’ for the firs reading are not too clear. It started in paragraph fourteen because the printed article has some missing words. I tried to predict the words, so that could I understand the article better. Unluckily, I could not understand it perfectly. However, after discussed it back in the class, the help from friends and lecturer to complete the article, I could understand the overall story in the text. Additionally, when I am completing the port folio part in the study guide, my view towards the article being better by doing critical thinking.