REFLECTION

UNIT 2

PERSPECTIVES: WHAT STANCE DOES THE WRITER TAKE IN THE TEXT?

This topic covers the role of perspective in each article given. The article given is ‘Battling the Bullies’. The article tells about the bullies’ problem that always happened among students and the prevention that should be considered. This article can be a practiced to apply the role of perspective that has been told in this unit whether to condemn or to commend. The language used can be traced as a perspective from the writer in each article. The writer of each article may use the metaphorical process to signify something. Although there are some terms and ideas explained in this unit such as metonymy, euphemism, diachronic perspective, equivocation and attenuate but then the reader is still hard to understand the terms and apply the usage of each of them in evaluating every article. There are some examples given in the reading on how to relate the role of perspective by the language used. There are also explained about the differences of text and textualities. The complicated examples also have been briefed. From the Portfolio task text Reading 2.2 Battling the Bullies, the perspective is about to condemn the school that not pertain the anti-bully policy. However the unfamiliar terms and ideas are still cannot be attached to the perspective of the article. The terms seem to be very confusing and rigid. However the examples given with the aim to give the ideas on how to apply the skills are good enough and well-present.

REFLECTION TO PRESENTATION

BY ZALIKHA, DALILA & FATIHAH

For this presentation, the presenters choose to explain and brief about the unfamiliar terms and ideas of metonymy, euphemism, diachronic perspective, equivocation and attenuate. However, the explanations given are still not adequate and there are insufficient details brief about the terms on how to use in and apply them in responds for every article. And again the lecturer trying to brief back to what extend the next presentation should cover about.