Amy Tan's Negative Effect
Her mother’s English was positive to her because that is what she grew up with, it related her back to her heritage or when her mother taught her things, showed her things, her wonderful childhood memories are all in the language her mother spoke.
The negative effect is that because Tan came from a family where English was not their first language she struggled in school with her English skills, this was shown in her school work and in tests like her SATs. She was also guided to follow careers where the core was math not English because they did not see her as someone that could speak the English language proper enough to be successful in a career where the core was English.
The negative effect is that because Tan came from a family where English was not their first language she struggled in school with her English skills, this was shown in her school work and in tests like her SATs. She was also guided to follow careers where the core was math not English because they did not see her as someone that could speak the English language proper enough to be successful in a career where the core was English.