WEEK 2
In the Critical Literacy class for this week, we had been exposed to one of the article title ‘Battling the bullies’. The article is about a six years old boy that had been bullied by his schoolmate. From this story, the writer tries to find the solution to overcome this problem. The writer also gains advice from the educational psychologist. It showed that the writer is really determined to decrease the number of bullying cases. From the article and also explanation by Miss Syida, it can be conclude that bullying should not be practiced, even for the tertiary student. It is because bullying can give a bad long-term effect towards the victim and also the bullies.
Presentation for this week started with boys group that unable to present earlier. Three or them, which are Muaz, Ridhwan, and Afif seem succeed to attract viewer to their presentation title ‘Stories and Fact’. According to the text, stories are about what had happened, usually to the person telling the story. As example, ghost stories that had been told to scared the children. It can be a true story that told by that people or maybe they just make up the story to scare the children. In addition, stories can be fictional or real. On the other hand, fact is information that is based in concrete evidence that cannot be change. For example, our country gets independent on 31 August 1957. It is a true fact that remains forever and nothing can change it. In conclusion, there are differences between stories and fact, which is stories based on what had happened and been told by others meanwhile fact is something that really happened and have evidence.
Other group that present on the same day is Adwa’s group. Adwa, Zulikha, and Lieyana really committed in their presentation title ‘Language, perspective and Ideology’. Based on my opinion, their group had done an excellent job by making the presentation become interesting and funny. They also make their own session, which is by asking to the class a few question. Those that succeed to answer it correctly will get a lollipop from them. The presenter also confident in answering back inquiries from classmate. From the presentation, language is a systematic means of communicating by the use of sound and conventional symbol. One of the examples of language is English, which is a worldwide language. Language can also found on the extract of newspaper report. Perspective means the appearance of things relative to another as determined by their distance from the viewer. Meanwhile, ideology can be defined as a system of idea and principles which based on political and economic theory. An example of ideology is communism by Karl Marx. The ideology is actually bring to the benefit, but the people that interpret the ideology apply it wrongly.
The next presentation is about ‘Text and Textualities’ presented by Fahaida, Shima, Khatijah, and Fatin. Text can be defined as combination of signs while textualities is the visual effect and heading that using in article. As example, in a cigarette advertisement, the company develop a myth towards viewer that the cigarette brand ‘Dunhill Deluxe’ is valuable to buy. From the text ‘Always in good taste’, the advertisement wanted people to believe that their product is in the best quality by using the text. A visual effect of cigarette with lighter also features, in order to attract the viewer.