Bili Bilingual Education: A Life-Long Advantage Alexa Adams It is concerning to see the U.S. continue to academically fall behind countries like China and Finland. The Program for International Student Assessment or PISA‚ is an international standardized test taken by 15 year-olds in developing countries. The U.S.‘s Secretary of State‚ Arne Duncan (2010)‚ was disappointed in the results‚ “The United States came in 23rd or 24th in most subjects. We can quibble‚ or we can face
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Immersion or Bilingual Education? One in every nine students today speaks a native language other than English‚ and it has been predicted that within the next twenty years‚ non-English speaking students will become as common as one in every four students (Goldenberg 10). This raises a question of how to give students the best education while helping them learn English. There are two basic forms of education used in schools today for English language learners (ELLs)‚ English immersion and bilingual programs
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US has “room for but one language in this country and that is the English language”. In a 2010 poll conducted by Rasmussen‚ eighty-seven percent of American voters said they would support making English the official language. Immigrants would also benefit from establishing English as the national language‚ because after learning English they would be able to actively participate in the democratic system employed throughout the US. Although the United States is a notorious melting pot of different cultures
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Working at an elementary school has giving me the opportunity to choose from many teachers to get this work completed but I chose to interview one of the best teachers in 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
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exorbitantly priced Swiss boarding school. Luckily‚ such elitism has been thrown out the window‚ and now parents raise bilingual and multicultural children themselves. The children grow up just as world-savvy and sophisticated -- and actually know their own parents! Still for the do-it-yourselfer‚ a few tips can smooth the way. The most common question people ask me is "How do I raise a bilingual child the best way?" "Easy‚ just talk to them!" is my tongue-in-cheek response. It seems almost impossible to
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These bilingual classroom materials are beneficial because they promote metalinguistic awareness while also serving “…to demonstrate the value of other languages‚ to make connections with the community and family‚ to strengthen the cultural identity of ELLs and to honor their families” (Cloud‚ Genesse‚ & Hamayan‚ 2009‚ p. 102). These materials are intended for a lower level English and German bilingual elementary classroom. I have chosen bilingual children’s books at different reading levels in an
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An Effective Assessment Plan for a Bilingual Early Learning Program: Integrating Montessori‚ High/Scope‚ and Constructivist approaches from a Leadership and Personal Point of View Adriana Ferrari University of Calgary Summary Montessori‚ High Scope‚ and recent constructivist theories are properly integrated in this paper in order to create an effective assessment plan in a two-way bilingual early educational program. Montessori Method promotes the 21st Century Competencies such
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people‚ known as bilinguals‚ are tainting their respective cultures by learning a different language and learning other cultures. As a result‚ these bilinguals end up being discriminated in their own native country. They become emotionally separated from their countrymen who can only speak their native tongue‚ creating a rift in their community. Many other issues similar to this have sprouted over the years. It is because they do not understand what it means to be bilingual and the benefits which they
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applies to both spelling and syntax. There is debate over whether growing up in a bilingual environment has positive or negative effects on children ’s phonological and orthographic awareness‚ and thus their ability to learn to read and speak fluently. There is much evidence that metalinguistic awareness‚ that is understanding of the overarching syntactic principles of language‚ is greater in children who are bilingual (Chen‚ 2004). Hammer and Miccio point out that the process of learning to read begins
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doors. The career opportunities bilingual education will offer to you are endless. With the globalization of business‚ bilingual and multilingual speakers are high in demand therefore creating many more business and career opportunities for these speakers. Knowing a second language will give you a huge advantage in the workplace‚ especially when it comes to those who are fluent in both of Canada’s official languages‚ English and French. Recent studies show that bilingual Canadians this day in age who
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