Answer 2 questions by reading.

Instructions:

• Read the assigned article: Tan: "Mother Tongue"
• Answer the following questions:

1. What makes up your “mother tongue”? To what extent is your language (such things as word choice, pronunciation, dialect, and second-language skills) influenced by your parents, your education, the part of the country in which you grew up, and your peers? How does language define us?
2. Define your “mother tongue.” Try to define the influences that have shaped both how and what you say.