The Importance Of Learning English In The United States

I was born in Kerala, India and was raised in Chicago, IL. I came to America at the age of three hoping for a better future. My father came to America first, and he lived with my Aunt who had three sons. After two years my father saved enough money to bring my mom, sister, and I to the US. During this time he would work as a dishwasher at a nursing home to support my family. After a month of living with my Aunty and her kids my dad found an apartment to rent. Eventually, we moved into a tiny one-bedroom apartment with my family. That was the hardest time period for me due to language barriers. My sister and I started to learn English. However, my parents were struggling to learn a new language so we would have to go everywhere with them to translate. Another, difficulty that we faced was financial issues. At that time we were making ends-meet and we were scraping every penny that we got. Afterwards, my mom got her CNA license she started working two jobs when I was only four years old. Even till this day she is still working two jobs to support the

With nearly 30 million immigrants crossing our borders in the last three decades, the United States education system has seen a dramatic increase in the number of English Language Learners (ELLs) entering the classroom (Migration Policy Institute website, n.d.). With this influx of non-native English speakers has come the need to find the best ways possible to meet them where they are academically and teach them accordingly. However, after years of research, education gurus are still divided on how to best meet the needs of ELLs. While there is no clear-cut approach, there are several strategies and programs that schools can implement in order to help immigrant learners and their families be successful in our school system.

The debate of instituting English as the official language in the United States is a debate that has been going on for centuries. Many people believe that English should be the official language because we are American, and Americans speak English. However, many of those people fail to realize that we all come from different heritages and corners of the world. Language should be an art of expression, one where people of all heritages and backgrounds can speak in the language that they have learned. Implementing English as the official language in the United States would be to essentially ignore and disrespect all of the heritages, nationalities, and religions that make the United States a unique place to live. The United States is

I was born in Irapuato Guanajuato Mexico on August 1. I lived in Mexico until I was four years old. At the age of five I received my residency and came to live in America. When I got here I lived in Atlanta Georgia and started school at Kanoheda Elementary School. I attended Kanoheda from kindergarten to second grade. While I was at Kanoheda I had an ESOL class where they taught me the English language and helped me with grammar skills. After second grade I never attended another ESOL class and was able to become fluent in English. When I was going to start third grade I moved to Summerville South Carolina. I was at Oakbrook Elementary for one year and then transferred to Knigtsville in the fourth grade. After I finished fifth grade I went

I was born in Cualcoman Michuacan Mexico, on May 30th, 1998. My parents brought me to the United States when I was 2 years old until I was 4 years old I was living in California but my dad came to Chelan Washington because we needed money and my dad found a job here. For one year to make enough money to make enough money to go for us and bring us to Chelan with him. When I turned 5 I stared going to preschool. I don’t know how it was like before I started going to school but im sure it was fun. My mom was the one that would take of me because she didn't work. My favorite toys were hot wheels. My friends are the same friends I have now today. What I was known at my house was a cry baby because I would cry if I didn't get a new hot wheel car

English is the biggest language in the world, many countries use it as the official language. The most important two countries are United Kingdom and the United States. Long times ago, Britain is the first country that occupied North America. And they brought their language to here and teach the local people to say it. But after the United States been independent, Americans developed the British English to American English. We have a huge amount of languages around the world, such as Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese. These three languages are also having lots of speakers. How can English become the biggest language in the world? In the South part of the North America, Mexicans speak Spanish, and the original Americans speak Indigenous languages, but now English is the only language that is using in the US government. Why Americans didn’t choose other languages to be their official language after the United States was established?

My sister and I first came to America in 2009. Our parents stayed behind in South Korea, and we live with our uncle’s family. I could barely speak English, which greatly reduced my chance of making friends and getting good grades. I remember feeling terrible looking at a giant letter “D” on my English grade report. On top of that, there was monetary trouble between my parents and uncle, which led to his mistreatment of me and my sister. In that period of my life, I realized that in order to thrive in this environment, I must first learn to speak English, and I worked hard on it until I eventually was dreaming in English. Of course the process was hard and lengthy. During that time, I was greatly humbled whenever I received quiz scores back.

It is a long going controversy in American education- whether the future leaders of our country should be educated in one, or multiple languages other than English as a standard in every school. Why is the debate so ongoing in the United States? In most other countries, foreign language education is a must in the school system, not a privilege.

Derek Walcott once said, “The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.” (Walcott) The immigrant population in the United States is 41.3 million or 13 percent, 20 percent if those immigrants do not speak English. (Zong, Kasperowicz) Out of the many immigrants that are in America many of them lack the ability to speak English. Having citizenship, being successful, and having a diverse, yet unified culture, are why all Americans should learn to speak English.

There are around 7,000 languages found in the 192 countries in the world (Grosjean 2010). The humans’ different way to communicate with each other according to the environment setting is called a language. The U.S is a diverse country and people who live in the U.S speaks many different languages. “Even with its large immigrant population and a long history of immigration, the general public in the united states does not support the use of multiple languages” (Freeman and Freeman 142). When immigrants come to the Unites States with different first language, the teachers provide them instruction in English which they don’t know. When they don’t understand anything in English, they start failing their classes. Their teachers put them into special needs program because they think that they need special and disability services.

The United States of America is a nation built by immigrants. The country soaks up people from all around the world, yet still is distinctly American. Declaring English as the national language of U.S would not only interfere with freedom of speech, culture, and the American dream, but the mixture of people is what makes America, America.

Furthermore, language is also one of the most vital for any immigrants. Some people have come to the United States just to learn English. Where they started communicating with peers in English. English is a rich language, so it is difficult and takes time to learn. According to Morales, “people are persistently grumbled that immigrants are not willing or unable to learn English.” In fact, they are willing, but it is difficult to find the right place for them. For example, they do not know how to take the first step, or where they could find ESOL/ESL classes. Therefore, the government should provide free English classes and encourage them to learn English, so that they can easily learn the communications skills and interact with peers effectively.

Americans have hidden behind the excuse that everybody important knows English for too long. The United States is the only country in the world where a student can graduate from college without ever having learned a foreign language. Most countries start foreign language instruction at ten years of age or younger. It is time we did something ourselves and stopped letting everyone else do the work. One credit of foreign language instruction should be required in order for graduation from high school in Laramie County School District Number One.

All my life I’ve always lived in communities where a lot of people experiences different kind of struggles. I was raised in the Philippines where I saw and personally experience different kinds of struggle faced by many people. From poverty, crime, and corruption. When I went to high school here at United States, I saw some similarities between that school and in my country. Hall High School was infamous for having bad student reputation. I even saw many young people getting arrested inside the school for some horrendous crimes. But, I don’t blame those students, they are just victims of our flawed community. Around 70 percent of students in Hall High are African-American, more than 20 percent of students are Hispanics. Basically, more than 90 percent of students are from minority groups where many of them are being treated unfairly by our current society here in United States. I understand and sympathize what they are going through. No matter whether i moved from the Philippines to United States, I still see many

Most people assume that english is the official language of the United States, however this is not the case, as there is no official language in the states. Since the origins of the country, english has consistently been spoken across the land, however it has never been established as the official language. America is a melting pot of cultures and the same can be said for it’s languages. Citizens in America speak an array of languages including Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, Gujrati, Urdu and hundreds more. However, with the amount of languages spoken in America, an official language is the glue needed to connect citizens The increase in languages spoken in America, is directly proportional to the increase in Immigration. America has been built on the back of these immigrants, but because they come from different backgrounds they need to define what it means to be American. Establishing english as the official language gives all citizens common ground, developing english into not only a language, but an important aspect of being, “American.” Several states have already established english as their official language, and they have seen an increased involvement of their immigrants in not only their societies, but their economies. Establishing english as the official language across the United States reaps several financial and social benefits, and is a required step in achieving unity.