REFLECTION ON UNIT 3.

REFLECTION ON UNIT 3.

Positioning: How Does The Writer Construct The Participants In The Text and How Is The Reader Constructed?

In unit 3, there are four Reading articles. The first article is ‘Please, let me go to your school’. Followed by ‘Truth about youth’, ‘Critical Literacy: a linguistic perspective’ and ‘Speech and speakers: the formation of individuals in discourse and genre’. All the Reading parts have been explained roughly by the third group. The members of the group are Thuraya, Qursyia and Yusafiza.

Like them, I also agreed that I cannot understand some of the Reading parts. There are many high lexis word which I did not understand and this bring difficulties for me to identify what is the article is all about.

This unit focused on the idea of positioning in critical literacy. In positioning, a reader must know how does the writer construct the people referred to in the text and how does the writer construct the reader itself.

In general, the third group was closely can make me understand how to write about positioning. Maybe because our lecturer had told and explained it to our class before. Although sometimes this group seems hard to answer questions from the classmates but they showed their effort as they also tried as hard as they can to find and give the answer.

And basically what I can understand about positioning is when we read any reading materials, we must know how the writer constructs the readers and how the writer constructs the participants in that particular reading. In addition, it is also must be supported by proof and evidence to make it more clear.

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