Dual Language Persuasive Essay

Going back in time I would make a zealous decision to not vote for Prop 227. By requiring all public schools instruction to be conducted in English would be eradicating the various languages student posses by exerting American hegemony over different cultures. Prop 227 throws students in immersion programs that are suppose to last for one year, in order to make the students fluent in English. If the students cannot learn English in that one-year time period, they’re doomed to run into difficulties when advancing to a higher-level education of the dominant language. It is simply a “sink or swim” ordeal. The failure to address individual student’s language assistance translates to failure to provide them an equal, fair opportunity to learn. (Crawford 91) If schools were to increase bilingual programs instead of having all English immersion programs, I believe school attendance among Latinos would increase. I came to this assumption based on this example, “
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The additive way describes when a second language is added onto an individual’s first language and both languages are subsequently maintained and developed. (Garcia 102) Translanguaging for students has proven to be quite beneficial and should become more prevalent, “Especially in classrooms of language minorities, and particularly in those where students are emergent bilinguals, translanguaging as a pedagogy offers the possibility of producing integrated knowledge, deep understandings and coherent identifications. (Garcia 116) Having students practice dynamic multilingualism will broaden their academic achievement skills and posses the ability to assist their peers in a classroom setting. This is such the case for Eric, a student who displays dynamic bilingualism, he is able to use his linguistic repertoire flexibility to assist other students and have the teacher comprehend him in a classroom setting. (Garcia