Deborah Brandt defines the sponsors of literacy as "any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy- and gain advantage by it in some way" (334). Based on her study on 100 different people, in her article "Sponsors of literacy," she explains how everybody's literacy is influenced by different economies, which supply different access routes, different degrees of sponsoring power and different scales of monetary worth of practice in use.
I totally agree with what she states in her article. I'm sure that coming from another country, I don't have the same literature as the rest of my classmates in my English class, as I'm sure that they also have differences in their literacies too because they all come from different families, schools, towns or religions.
APPLYING AND EXPLORING IDEAS
1. I was born and raised in Salta, Argentina. I'm the youngest of four kids, daughter of an accountant father and an English teacher mother. My primary literacy sponsors were my family and my school. I went to the same school from kindergarden till I graduated from high school. We had the basic subjects and everybody took the same classes. We didn't have extracurricular activities to do at school like you do in the USA. So I went to an English institute to learn the language and to a Sports Club to play field hockey. My mother, being an English teacher taught me songs and poems in English when I was little and I think that is what made me like the language in the first place.
I'm a theatre major at Ohio University. As I explained before, we didn't have extracurricular activities at school so we didn't have a drama club I could join. I know most of my current classmates have dad that and I wish I had too. Also, we often talk in class about broadway shows or particular American things that I've never had access to.
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