The world has a new mania, a mania for learning English.
The Chinese students practice their English by screaming it. Jay Walker talks that way two billion of
people around the world. The chinese students start learning English in the
third grade by law. That’s way China will become the world’s largest English
speaking country. Why should English? Because it’s an opportunity for a better
life, job, and so on. When the students taking a test, 25% of their grade is
based on English. Jay Walker also talks that with English we can become a part
of a wider conversation: a global conversation about global problems, like
climate change or poverty or hunger or disease. English is becoming the
language of problem solving.
Christine Sun Kim was born deaf. She is an artist. In his talk, she shares about the history of ASL and a bit of her background. French sign language was brought to America during the early 1800s and as time went by mixed with local signs, it evolved into the language we know today as ASL. Sun Kim was taught to believe that sound wasn’t part of her life. In contrast, sound was very much a part of her life. As a deaf person, Kim understand sound through watching how people behave and respond to sound. The people are like her loudspeaker and amplify sound. At the same time, she have learned to create sound ‘sound atiquette’ and seen how people respond to her. In Deaf culture, movement is equivalent to sound. Kim also showed some sign languages and its meaning. Because of Sun Kim is an artist, she decided to reclaim ownership of sound and put it into her art practice. She says that sound is so powerful that it could either disempower her and her artwork or it could empower her. Sound
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