COCA

Hate and hatred are synonyms but are used in different ways. Hate and hatred have similarities and differences.

Hate is most common in fiction corpus. Most common collocates of hate are mail, crimes, and admit. The most common phrase for hate is “hate to~”.

Hatred is most common in fiction corpus. Most common collocates of hatred are visceral, mistrust, and sow. The most common phrases of hatred is “hatred for~” and “hatred of~”.

The two are similar in ways that they are most common in fiction corpus. Also, the word that follows each word commonly is a preposition for both. However, looking at the collocates of each word, it is clear that hatred is used with more advanced words than hate. The numbers of frequency also shows that hate is more commonly used than the word, hatred.

Reference:

Davies, Mark. (2008-) The Corpus of Contemporary American English: 450 million words, 1990-present. Available online at http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/.

wk 6 hw - Same topic, different ideas

 

 

 

Haram Sung’s, John Jung’s, and Daewoong Chung’s blog posts all chose “To a Daughter Leaving Home” as the best literature out of the four. They all picked the same poem but had different reasons on why they picked the poem.

Sung states that students should “learn how to construct a sentence [...] or even a piece of writing” through poems. He agrees that students may find poems challenging. However, he believes that some challenge is needed to learn a language - talking about Krashen’s i+1. Sung goes on and introduces another reason. He says that “To a Daughter Leaving Home” has appropriate message and that it is “empathetic”. Empathy inspires and allows students to concentrate and learn.

According to Jung, “To a Daughter Leaving Home” is useful to enhance student’s characteristics. Because student have not yet become a parent, Jung says that it is “crucial” to have students realize what their parents think when it comes for them. In addition, he states that this poem is “easy to activate their schema” because most students have experienced love from their parents.

As reported by Chung, this poem is recommendable because of “its empathetic benefits and appropriateness in language”. The first reason is the same as Jung’s second reason. He says that teens forget about the love that has been given to them from their parents. This poem gives them a “chance” to bring back their memory. According to Chung, “To a Daughter Leaving Home” is suitable for high school students because it contains some “essential prefabricated expressions” and “general level of vocabulary”.

Same poem was chosen by the three above, but they, although some do overlap, all had different reasons on why they support it. It’s quite interesting how the same topic can diverge into different ideas. This can also mean that some people may disagree on choosing “To a Daughter Leaving Home” as the best literature to teach to Korean high school students. It is important to be exposed to different types of literature before teachers teach. The more exposure the more ideas teacher gets.

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          Korean high school students are solely devoted to College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) so they study till dawn for the test and sleep through school. Students are extremely stressed out and defy parents. For these students, “To a Daughter Leaving Home” is a must. “To a Daughter Leaving Home” should be taught to Korean high school students because students can relate to the poem and learn through metaphorical meanings.
          "To a Daughter Leaving Home" is about a mother who is sending her child away; however, the mother indulges in reminiscence and recalls when her daughter is eight years old. When readers fully understand what the poet is trying to say through her poem, every hearts of the readers are touched. To mothers, even a grown-up child is a kid to look after. Korean high school students in the period of contrariness will face a turning point to go back to the arms of their parents reading this poem.
          Korean students only focus on College Scholastic Ability Test - even the subjects learnt in school is focused on CSAT; thus, giving a chance to spread their creativity is urgent. "To a Daughter Leaving Home" is perfect to be creative. This poem contains metaphors which can be translated into different meanings. For example, the word ‘distance’ in "more breakable/ with distance" shows that the daughter is gradually moving away from her mother which increases the possibility of being broken. The subject of getting broken can be both bones when the daughter was young and the new society the grown-up daughter will face. Reading this requires readers to think.
          For hostile and tight-laced Korean students, "To a Daughter Leaving Home" will give them a chance to re-embrace their parents and think outside the box. A change in curriculum is a must. Hopefully students will be able to feel free to think and learn subjects not only related to CSAT but also that are of their interest.