English Bilingualism Advantages

The advantages of bilingualism can be seen throughout “Aria,” a memoir originally published in Hunger of Memory in 1980, written by the Mexican-American author Richard Rodriguez. In his writing, Rodriguez's shares his experience of how he gained a new identity because he had to learn English and adapt to a new society in America. The purpose of his memoir is to give the reader a sense of why bilingual education shouldn’t be used in school. Rodriguez's writing reaches out to supporters of bilingual education who may not see the benefits that can be gained from not having the program in school.

This nation is a place where different cultures come together and learn to coexist. From native America, Latinos, Asians and probably other nations that are not well known; they all have something in common which they all are bilinguals. Authors Cisneros, Agosin, Dumas and Tan clearly illustrate that being bilingual has both advantages and disadvantages.

Teachers are forcing kids away from taking specific classes due to bias opinions, which is why for many schools in the United States language is not looked at as a priority. Picture growing up in a small town, in Maine, which in the data table from Shin and Kominski’s report showed to be a state with the least amount of citizens that spoke a language other than English as their primary language, shows that for some people language is hard to see has being important. In High School some have found a passion in language but don’t receive the proper curriculum that would allow them to succeed. Instead of introducing language in High School, our school systems should focus on adding it into the curriculum that is taught in elementary school and middle school. By starting when you are young, the time you are graduating high school you can speak at least one other language and classify yourself as bilingual. Dianne Steinbach explained it as, “Something that many of us took for granted when we were younger people is now disappearing” (First Speakers:Restoring). Since there is such a large increase in language diversity

On the construction of the windmill, Boxer, as always, worked the hardest despite his leg injury. Boxer has been working like a “slave” since the rebellion. As time passed, Boxer grew weaker and his strength was not the same. He is the one of the few animals on the farm that always tried to keep a positive attitude and believed that hard work and determination will keep the farm going. However, his constant working and Napoleon’s dictatorship has caused him to become restless and feeling emotionally drained.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is defined as, “a behavioral disorder characterized by inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity” (Harlacher, Roberts, & Merrell, 2006). A child with this disorder can seem off task, too excited, disorganized, or distracted. ADHD effects between three and five percent of children, which means teachers will more than likely come into contact with a child of this disorder. As mentioned by Harlacher in “Class wide Interventions for Students with ADHD”, teachers should become familiar with some interventions necessary for ADHD children. Individual interventions are beneficial, but class wide interventions allow all children to profit from the modifications. Although interventions typically have a negative connotation, ADHD interventions are helpful for everyone. Class wide interventions for ADHD may seem time consuming, but as well as being cost-effective, it allows the ADHD child to remain anonymous. Remaining anonymous is beneficial to the child because the other students will not know who required the change within the classroom. Class wide interventions benefit the entire class by allowing all children access to the modified classroom.

Language is used every day in our everyday lives all over the world. Marian and Shook state that “language is used to communicate our thoughts and feelings, connect with others, identify culture, and understand the world around us” (Marian & Shook ,2012,para.1) There are many languages all over the world and some people understand more than one language such as understanding both English and Spanish. People that are Bilingual are exceptional in a way that they are intelligent, helpful, and have advantage openers.

Bilingualism and multilingualism are well practiced through the World. Despite it being well accepted on other parts of the globe, many areas in the United States tends to turn a cold shoulder to it.. Most education policies concerning bilingual or not based on scientific evidence and research (which has discovered the advantages and disadvantages of bilingualism) but rather pre conceived notions and stigmas when it comes to the practice. After some brief research, I believe we should embrace the "new wave" practices and policies, which are more well informed rather than the past. Researches also need to explore new ways in which the brain retains, recognizes and organizes language learning. Now is the tome to put evidence based practices and

The need for bilingual education is not directly related to the need for the student to have a more pleasant learning experience, but based more on the increasing need for these individuals to learn about their heritage, how they can present themselves to others in different scenarios, and being knowledgeable in both languages at a dual equivalence. The key

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Deborah K. Palmer and Ramon Antonio Martinez argue that being bilingual shouldn’t be a disadvantage to how students learn, but it should be promoted in all English Language Arts classroom. In New York and Texas, English is the primary language that is being taught in schools and if a student is not proficient in English, he/she would be placed in an ESL class to improve their English. Since many English classes aren’t implied to incorporate bilingualism in their lesson planning, it shouldn’t mean that it should be ignored. Previous research has shown that students incorporate their bilingual skills in their everyday language practices and skills connecting to the English language arts standards that it might even be used as a resource in class.

Many people do not believe in bilingual education because they think that the student would confuse the two languages and in the end speak neither one correctly. A closer look at when the two language mixes reveals that most of them master one of the languages to the same degree as a monolingual speaker (Korth 3). Through their bilingualism, they can use linguistic means creatively in accordance with the demands of the situation. This flexibility is a cognitive ability, which monolingual speakers can achieve only through effortful learning and training. Switching from one language to the other can be interpreted as an indication of the speaker’s fluency (Korth 3). In some cases, the languages are only spoken in specific places. If a child speaks

These days there are more and more people who live in a country where other language than their home language is spoken. This could be due to different reasons, like immigration of the whole family or having married a person from another country. When children are involved most parents would like them to be bilingual, but this does not happen automatically. Some effort is required.

1). Despite the dictionary definition, the definition of bilingualism was identified as ambiguous and lacked an operational definition (Baker, 2001; Cummins, 1976; Macnamara, 1967). Consequently, defining who is or is not bilingual remained disputable between linguists and researchers. However, several hypotheses were proposed.

The bilingual education programs in the United States have a long history despite an ongoing battle. The goal of bilingual education has been focused on two areas of assimilation and integration. Bilingual education programs help immigrant children to learn English and adopt American culture. Under social and political preferences, most of the schools use transitional bilingual education but with English only. As a result, the students’ home languages, culture are devalued in the schools. Students learn English while at the expense of losing their first language. Despite much research bilingual education is not fairly recognized by the public. However in fact when a bilingual education program “supported the minority language were consistently superior in various outcomes.” Case closed, bilingual education programs should be properly administered with the requisite support needed. We still wish to look at some further benefits though. Students who are given instruction in their home language helps them to catch up to their English speaking peers in subjects such as English language art, reading, and mathematics. Bilingual education students do better than the English-only instructed students overall. Bilingual education is more effective than English-only monolingual education. Actually, by using the students’ first language in school this does not interfere

Today, bilingual education used in many countries for variety of social and educational purposes. It is the actual problem of this century. Because, the world is changing and according to the requirements of time, the human mind adjusts to new discoveries, to new tops. The relevance of training to bilingual manner as a basic component in-depth language education is defined, first of all, a general global trend towards integration in the economic, cultural and political spheres, in the sphere of education determines the trend towards integration of subject knowledge, focus on the knowledge of a coherent picture of the world. Modernization in the field of school education is associated with high quality education, development of new technologies, new perspectives, expanding the horizons of students. Now, special attention is paid to creating conditions to develop the creative potential of the student and to empower in-depth education. Training based on bilingual program is important, because it provides