The Dual Language Program Affecting Immigrants

Eric Hoover, a staff reporter for the Chronicle, profiles a community college student in Philadelphia. Wrote an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education newspaper titled ( title ) “ An Immigrant Learns Two New Languages.” In the article, Eric Hoover (tone) sets an informal tone when describing the personal hardships and achievements of Ms. Maldonato. The author (audience) targets men and women over the age of 50 who are still fixed on attending college. Ms. Maldonato, a part-time student at the Community College of Philadelphia, learned two languages after emigrating from colombia. ( Purpose ) The author intends to entertain his readers by sharing the journey that Ms Maldonato took to become a successful immigrant. ( Thesis ) To learn a language is to piece together a puzzle that is never quite done.

Each lecture has an important message for the readers. One of the most interesting and motivating readings found in “Prose Reader's book by Kim and Michael Flachmann” is “Public and Private Language by Richard Rodriguez”. In this reading the author narrates the experiences of his life when he emigrated to a foreign country and the difficulties and challenges he had to face. It is a huge challenge, occasionally people are afraid of changes and start a new life. This essay has a sentimental and realistic purpose, because the author illustrates how people who immigrate face the language barrier and how difficult is learning another language. The author faced a few challenges in this reading from the educational, social and family point of view.

Immigrant and multilingual youth face many challenges while getting an education. There are programs, laws and curriculum created and put in place in order to help further them in their educational goals; but these end up causing more harm than good. This is referred to as subtractive schooling. In this paper we will briefly go over what subtractive schooling is, what causes this to occur and what could be done to fight this type of schooling.

This article is about the official bilingualism policy in Canada, including the history of development background, different influences on politics, economy and life. The aim of bilingualism policy is to realize the equality between French and English and has a bilingual federal government. After the implementation of bilingualism, the federal government has been most successful in extending public services in both languages, which is an important influence. In addition, federal government begun to subsidize the second-language education in public schools and developed many public services. The official bilingual policy is successful in Canada to a large extend, and more bilingual regions will be set in the future.

Taking dual language programs will help students have great advantages for employment opportunities. This programs allow students to travel to foreign countries for better work opportunities. As for traveling to foreign countries, students won't need the help of interpreters to communicate. According to the College Grad, students taking dual language programs in high school or throughout their education career, students have a higher opportunity of being their own

❝If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.❞ According to Nelson Mandela the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy, and was the country's first black president. Large amount of immigrant coming to America today and continue to growth. The biggest issue they're facing was language. English is their second language, yes it is hard for the person to learn two language when theyŕe already in an old age and even in kids are struggling with this at school. Not only adult people but children are also affecting, without communication and understanding makes them felt discourage and depress living in new society. Most immigrants

Compared to other Countries, America stands less developed in bilingual abilities due to language requirements taught within our school systems curriculum. Being bilingual is an important skill to have in America, with multiple different prominent languages spoken within our country other than English, we are constantly surrounded by language. The problem that our country is dealing with now, is that we started with the idea that anyone that moved to America should adapt to our languages, instead of us Americans, taking the initiative to learn a new languages. In a report by Hyon Shin and Robert Kominski, showed the number of citizens in America that spoke a language other than English. The “data on speakers of languages other than English

Classrooms do not readily host a bi-lingual teacher who can successful communicate with these immigrant students in their native tongue as well in English. Schools do not have many multi-cultural programs to help these immigrant students adjust. Being an undocumented student only adds to the stresses they face while in this country. Their parents are, illegal, which renders them unavailable for assistance during critical matters in their formative years. They live in poverty and everyday, they live in fear raids and ultimate deportation. If schools would develop a broader outlook as to how to serve these students it would greatly improve student development and relations for these immigrant students.

I find the idea of race a bit tricky because a I am of Mexican decent. My ancestors, according to my grandfather were Spanish so in a way I believe that makes me European white. This does not really affect my ingrouper or outgrouper communication because race is not a factor in my judgment. I do have a cultural perspective in determining certain people therefore having a greater interest in ethnicity. Again, I believe it is not a matter of race, I believe people do look at me differently at a certain degree but in a cultural point of view, ethnicity. No, race is not a way to perceive how others because there are major differences in a single race. For example, Asians tend to have similar characteristic in our western perspective but in their

People read the newspaper and articles when they see a topic that is related to their life and I think the immigrant’s families will also read the newspaper when they see a topic about immigration. For example, my family are immigrants too and we tend to read the article when the headline has something to do with immigrants which convinces me that the main audience of my article would be immigrants and their families. We tend to read articles and try to find out if we are getting the same right as others or not and many immigrant families will read my article and try to find whether they are getting equal opportunity or not. Immigrants are not getting same opportunity as others citizens and residents of United

The workers needs to have a direct discussion/questioning and work collaboratively with the family to identify their problems and extract their needs for the problems. The workers need to use appropriate English and avoid speaking too fast so that the family would understand what they are saying, this is because of the different accents, different cultural backgrounds and Alethea's inability to speak fluent English. The workers need to actively listen to the family and encourage them to tell their stories, this can be achieved by building rapport and using the appropriate communication strategies. For example the workers need to show concern and interest, be empathetic, respect the client and see the issues from the family's perspective rather

Interoperability has been described as the extent in which systems and devices can exchange data and translate that shared information. It is the ability of one system to perform work in addition with other systems without asking for too much hard work from the other users. This system enhances the importance for information technology to make the networks and integrations work. In order for the process to function properly the two systems that are attempting to share information must be able to exchange data and introduce that same information to other users in a way that he or she can understand it. There are many organizations in the business world and many have different operating systems. The importance of

An advocate can be defined as a person who pleads on another’s behalf. Advocates are important in today 's society as they provide representation for the disadvantaged and foster a sense of hope for change in the world. During his life Wilfred Owen, the famous war poet, lived under many titles: he was a son, a brother, a student, a teacher, a fighter, an inpatient, a war poet and most importantly, an advocate. This essay addresses his most eminent poems, contrasting the ways in which war was promoted versus the true reality of war, as well as the ways in which Owen gave a voice to the men dying in futile war.

First off, it’s important to understand the difference between learning and education. Learning is the ability of an individual’s brain to acquire and retain information for a lifetime, whereas education is an aide to further strengthen a student’s learning capacity with the use of resources: teachers, libraries, classroom environment, etc. All students are essentially equal when they enter the educational environment, however students who don’t speak English have an unfair disadvantage in the american educational system.

Upon on arriving to Queensland, Australia it was fine except our luggage, went to Brisbane Airport instead of the airport we were flying in at, Whitsunday Airport. After that, we got into a taxi to a rental car service. Then, we went out to eat at good old Mcdonalds for lunch. My sister was not that annoying today. Property because they all had headphones in listening to music for the trip so far. And, I am not talking about low volume either; I am talking about full blast. It is like they’re having a competition to see whose music can be louder. I forgotten my phone and headphones in my suitcase so, I had to play I spy with myself. Let me tell it is the most boring thing you can ever do. So after about two or