Gee:
Many new mothers have been struggling with their lives, because they have no experiences at all. If a new mom wants to know or learn new about marriage’s life, they learn it from their mothers, because their mothers have a lot of marriage’s life experiences. However, there is a website called Cafemom is basically a digital meeting community place for new moms, and it is mainly used for helping them with how to deal with issues in their marriage’s life.
Every community has its own particular type of Discourse due to their culture, education and system of communicating. For example, Cafemom has a totally different Discourse than other website, because they came up with an idea that no has thought about, which is a digital place for new mothers where they can learn what they need for their marriage’s life. There are two kinds of Discourses, primary Discourse and secondary Discourse. As Gee in his book (what is literacy) illustrates that Primary Discourse is what you learn from family or intimates, while secondary Discourse is what you learn from school and restaurants or anything out the family environment. Therefore, Cafemom is definitely a secondary Discourse, and new mothers could support their primary Discourse by secondary Discourse from Cafemom. This community provides good learning system, because of the experienced mothers who share their primary Discourse and give it to new mothers as a secondary Discourse, so that new mother could benefit from.
All the new mothers in Cafemom learn new skills from experienced mothers who acquired the skills when they were young from their mothers, but unfortunately it upsets a lot of people, because they believe that Cafemom website should provide and only have mothers who have learnt and finished their university education, not the mother who have acquired primary Discourse from their mothers. However, Gee in his book (What is literacy) says “ literacy is mastered through acquisition, not learning, that is, it requires exposure to models in natural meaningful, and functional settings, and teaching is not liable to be very successful”. What Gee points out is that the skills and experiences that experienced mothers in the website acquire is mastered, because learning is not as liable and successful as acquisition. Therefore, Cafemom has brought the opportunity to new mothers to learn important skills from experienced mothers in order to have a good and beautiful marriage life.
by: Abdulbari Saggaf
Every community has its own particular type of Discourse due to their culture, education and system of communicating. For example, Cafemom has a totally different Discourse than other website, because they came up with an idea that no has thought about, which is a digital place for new mothers where they can learn what they need for their marriage’s life. There are two kinds of Discourses, primary Discourse and secondary Discourse. As Gee in his book (what is literacy) illustrates that Primary Discourse is what you learn from family or intimates, while secondary Discourse is what you learn from school and restaurants or anything out the family environment. Therefore, Cafemom is definitely a secondary Discourse, and new mothers could support their primary Discourse by secondary Discourse from Cafemom. This community provides good learning system, because of the experienced mothers who share their primary Discourse and give it to new mothers as a secondary Discourse, so that new mother could benefit from.
All the new mothers in Cafemom learn new skills from experienced mothers who acquired the skills when they were young from their mothers, but unfortunately it upsets a lot of people, because they believe that Cafemom website should provide and only have mothers who have learnt and finished their university education, not the mother who have acquired primary Discourse from their mothers. However, Gee in his book (What is literacy) says “ literacy is mastered through acquisition, not learning, that is, it requires exposure to models in natural meaningful, and functional settings, and teaching is not liable to be very successful”. What Gee points out is that the skills and experiences that experienced mothers in the website acquire is mastered, because learning is not as liable and successful as acquisition. Therefore, Cafemom has brought the opportunity to new mothers to learn important skills from experienced mothers in order to have a good and beautiful marriage life.
by: Abdulbari Saggaf