Rodriguez and Kosut were both personal accounts of acquiring discourse and the cultural struggles they each encountered, relating to both Bartholomae and Gee. Batholomae’s suggestion of acquiring discourse through mimicking was evident through Rodriguez’s admiration of his teachers and Kosut’s interaction with her peers. Both disproved Gee’s ideology that secondary discourse cannot be acquired if one is not a member of the dominant class, with Rodriguez being a minority and Kosut’s being of the working class.
I enjoyed reading both accounts and was able to relate to both. I was pleased with the success of both authors and found great delight in disproving Gee’s theory.
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