rhetorical analysis

February 27, 2005, one reporter Cassie Biggs wrote about a deaf school in China and told how the school transformed from oral-developed procedure to bilingual and bicultural (bi-bi) method. A deaf school in Tianjin, China, Number One School for the Deaf used the bi-bi method from the west and it was a great development for the children. They began to use this method four years ago and the population of the students being part of this method is still growing. Cassie’s article tried to prove the teachers with deaf education degrees that bi-bi method is the best method to teach deaf students and it will benefit the deaf students in the future. The benefits are the knowledge of communicating between two deaf people and the bond between the deaf person and his/her true identity.

In China, before the inspiration of bi-bi method thorough-out deaf schools, the government had the control over a deaf person’s rights. They can’t drive a car but a motorcycle, have limited choice of jobs, and inadequate education which they lost their interest in education because of the oral teachings. Most of people around the world with education of oral were failed to speak. The people who learned from the bi-bi method were success with the interaction around the world with the hearing people with their own identity being a deaf person. Some issues were raised with this piece because the writer spoke the pros of bi-bi method while the China’s laws were against a deaf person having their own right. This were also part of the cultural argument because of China’s beliefs, they believed a hearing person is a normal person. A deaf person is a mental retarded.

The media buzzed around after the article was posted because of the truth of bi-bi method and the conflict between hearing parents and the deaf child. The hearing parents spent their money on oral education, hearing aids, and cochlear implants. Most percent were failures, they spent lots of money on research, devices, and many more but the technology is helpless with the gene- deafness. Two boys were part of the piece, Zhang and Zhao. They were raised in a hearing family and came to the school with no language. They grew up in the school with barely few spoken words such like mother or father. The school juggled the oral teaching with other subjects- math, science, reading, and English. When they decided to test the new method of bi-bi from the west, today with Zhang and Zhao, they can communicate through sign language and feel the pride being a deaf person. They could read, write, and feel like other hearing kids. At the result, the students from the new method class increased their knowledge and even up their intelligence as a hearing child. They are able to work and live like everybody else today.