Bakhtin’s quote says, “Language, for the individual consciousness, is on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else’s.”

In general, for literacy deveolpment i think this means, is how we present our ideas to the readers that we want to focus on reading it. Many things that are written come from different emotions one is having at the time. When writing, we use language, that tells who we are in general and who we are in that moment of writing. This connects to my own writing in literacy development because I will be writing about personal events in my life or people that are important to me and how they impacted my life and in what ways. It will be a good and easy assignment for me because it is just like free writing, like putting my ideas on paper and flowing with great details about it.