It’s not always a blessing People are always telling me that I don’t speak English or Spanish‚ but I have my own language called Spanglish. I sit here thinking how many people can relate to my everyday life struggle.The curse of being bilingual is one that can affect you for all of the time. The struggle of actually never being fluent in either language makes you feel a bit abnormal. As if you lack some kind of ability to be smart or even just an average person. Constantly being made fun
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This semester I observed a first grade bilingual classroom at Martin Elementary. The classroom contained three ELL’s at a variety of levels. The instructor‚ Mrs. Guerrero‚ used lots of sheltered instruction strategies not only during the set time for bilingual instruction‚ but throughout the rest of the content areas. Throughout the semester‚ I saw how Mrs. Guerrero used specific strategies to teach vocabulary to her LEP students. The first thing I noticed was how she had seated them near native
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As a bilingual student‚ myself‚ I recognize the importance of receiving language support‚ when English is not your first language. At the age of eight‚ I struggled to adapt to my new country and its language. Unfortunately‚ my parents did not know English‚ therefore I could not get any support from home. However‚ I was fortunate to find bilingual teachers that were patient and appropriately skilled to provide me the resources I needed to acquire the new language. These teachers inspired me to become
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this school. I interviewed a teacher at the school where I currently work as a Bilingual Teacher Assistant. The teachers name is Adriana Sanchez‚ she currently teaches 4th grade at Manuel Jara Elementary school located in Fort Worth‚ Texas. She decided to become a teacher because all her family is in the education field. Her husband works at the administration building for FWISD. She has her bachelors degree in education and her masters as a reading specialist. She has been teaching for 15 years total
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Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood by Richard Rodriguez is an essay that shows his readers a part of life that many have never experienced. Rodriguez uses this essay to show how he fights through his childhood to understand English. Speaking clear English will help him to fit in to society. He faces society while forfeiting his happy home life‚ to try to become a typical English-speaking student. As a young child‚ Rodriguez finds comfort and safety in his noisy home full of Spanish sounds
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their own and other people’s feeling is specific to a particular language.”‚ and for better understanding it is necessary for you to turn to linguistic science where the problem of semantics is discussed. She emphasizes on the experience of a bilingual child who can be confused because the meanings of the words are not well-established . Also‚ she explains the difficulty of immigrants to adapt in a place that it is different from the birthplace and
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Discuss the importance and function of code-switching in bilingual children and/or learners of a second language. This essay will consist of arguments for and against the importance of code-switching (or CS). The positive aspects focus on CS as a conscious choice‚ CS a social tool and CS requiring a fluency in all languages involved. The negative aspects will consist of the stigma attached to code-switching in general and in children‚ the difference between CS and ‘code-mixing’ and whether CS
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father likes them separate‚ one there‚ one here” because that’s is how he want it to be. The poem in structured since she is bilingual‚ when the father hear her speaking English‚ it’s unnatural for him to hear her speaking another language and tells her to speak that language outside and only speak Spanish inside.
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After reading A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” by Richard Rodriguez‚ and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ I found that being bicultural is one of the best qualities I could have. Speaking two languages‚ eating different kinds of foods‚ and celebrating my culture are some of the advantages of being bicultural. Although my family and I live in the U.S we follow the customs and traditions of America and Pakistan. I have learned to speak three languages‚ including English. I eat a variety of foods and celebrate
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As a boy‚ the main problem he faced was he struggled to speak sufficient English. One factor that contributed to this problem was the bilingual education he received from a Roman Catholic School. Rodriguez described bilingual education as a “scheme” that “was foolish and certainly doomed.” The second contributing factor was his parents. As mexican immigrants‚ Rodriguez’s parents never learned how to properly communicate in English.
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