Summary Of Aria By Richard Rodriguez

Modern day competition caused many people experience bilingual education. Richard Rodriguez, the writer of “Aria,” is one of them. Rodriguez refers “private language” as his native language and “public language” as what he will use at school. His “private language” is Spanish and his “public language” is English. He argues that it is unnecessary for student to be taught in two different languages. He said, the foreign language that will be taught diminishes the value of the native language; lower social growth and not mixing into the community. Also, bilingualisms said that it will cause the students to loose their sense of individuality. I am very experienced with multi-language education. Since the fifth grade, I was taught in English,