Like others I have described it to people as broken or fractured English.

What is the purpose of this text mother tongue i know this for a fact. Tan does a great job incorporating several different tones into such a short piece. We are then told how English wasnt Amoys strongest subject and later on we are told about the difficulties her mother. The poem is.

There can be one tone throughout the entire piece or many different tones. This factor has enabled her to have the blend of both the societies which was also evident in her writing. It was later published by The Threepenny Review in 1990.

She has the ability to talk proper English and sound smart but when shes around her husband and mother she unconsciously goes back to speaking how she spoke when she was a kid. Another purpose of writing such book is the fact that Amy Tan has spent much of her time in America but she was born in China. Mother tongue is valuable due to several reasons.

Its very frustrating trying the decipher what shes saying. For example if a language school. The authors mother has it really bad.

Tan described that the language she was taught in her family by her mothers tongue has affected her English greatly. Tongue is about the authors struggles with her linguistic identity her mothers fractured or broken variation of English and the relationship with her mother. Ie not only the first language according to the time of acquisition but the first with regard to its importance and the speakers ability to master its linguistic and communicative aspects.

But I wince when I say that. Audience students in college readers who are interested prof. In Amy Tans essay Mother Tongue Tan reveals how she was sculpted into the successful writer she is from the struggles of language speaking her mother had to face.