Experience Indianapolis Public Schools 07/2016-07/2017 Bilingual Enrollment Specialist 10/2016-07/2017 • Assisted parents with the enrollment process for students • Managed a high volume of inbound and outbound calls • Managed Front Desk area • Acted as a Spanish Bilingual Translator when needed • Maintained school records within the database • Maintained a positive‚ energetic‚ solution driven demeanor in all dealings with parents‚ staff
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Are Bilinguals Smarter Than Monolinguals? A Review of the Literature Luke James Walkington La Trobe University Are Bilinguals Smarter Than Monolinguals? A Review of the Literature ‘Bilingual’ people are differentiated from ‘Monolingual’ people by their frequent communication with two or more languages (Barac & Bialystok‚ 2012). Bilinguals are thought to be smarter than Monolinguals (Rubio-Fernández & Glucksberg‚ 2012). Smartness is a measure of successfulness in their education
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Development of children’s language awareness in English teaching materials Abstract The paper will focus on the concept of language awareness in the context of young learners. The whole language approach‚ inductive approach and implicit grammar teaching are advocated in early language education as children by the age of 10 are not able to understand abstract rules and principles. However‚ for languages to develop naturally grammatical categories have to be present in the instructions. Namely
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principal in a Spanish class‚ learning about the culture of that language is almost equally as important. If you do not understand a culture‚ you can never fully understand its language. Therefore‚ knowing the significance and effectiveness of bilingual education and the fundamental characteristics of the Latino community is a perfect way to begin a journey into the depths of the Spanish language and the culture surrounding it. To begin‚ before high school‚ I knew next-to-nothing about the Hispanic
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The importance of Culture in teaching and learning English in Expanding Circle Countries Constanza Ramos Universidad San Sebastián Introduction: It is widely known that the phenomenon of globalization has affected many fields in everybody’s life‚ such as economy‚ politics‚ culture and so on... Education is one of the matters that has been affected by this phenomenon and with this‚ more people has been interested to learn a second language‚ in this case‚ English. As Berns (2005) mentioned‚ “today
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Bilingual education was first initiated in 1968. It was a new means to educate the children who spoke a minority language. thirty-one years later the same problems exist for those children who speak a language other then English. The experiment of Bilingual education has been a failure and now it’s time to move on. The first English only initiatives were brought forth in 1981 by newly elected president Reagan. Since then the conflict over Bilingual education has drove on. Currently twenty-three states
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The Role of Local Culture and Context in English Language Teaching -Mabindra Regmi The Relation between Language and Culture The structuralists portrayed language as an entity that could be segmented and through learning these segments‚ the totality would also be learnt. This method has been tested‚ challenged and in many cases discarded in the world of linguistics. The conception‚ propagation and inevitable discontinuation of ever new methods has prompted Sowden to express “there has indeed been
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Rebecca M. Callahan and Patricia C. Gándara’s 2014 edited volume The Bilingual Advantage: Language‚ Literacy and the US Labor Market‚ aims to examine the economic and employment benefits of bilingualism in the era of globalization. By presenting 12 recent studies that initiate a discourse of interdisciplinary perspectives‚ this four-section volume demonstrates the overall positive but evidently complex economic effects of bilingualism. The contributors’ exploration of the role of bilingualism in
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Cognitive Coaching A New Approach to Building Effective Teacher Leaders 2/28/2013 Nicole L. Winsley | A New Approach to Mentoring A newly licensed teacher walks into her empty classroom on the first day of school. She has her curriculum guide‚ her pacing calendar‚ her unit instructional plan‚ and her lesson plans for the first week. She has her copies made and in her mind she has stored the countless hours’ worth of instruction she received for four years. The bell rings‚ and it is time
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Bilingual education and economic inequality are just two of the many issues Texans deal with in today’s society. In “What is Bilingual Education‚” Stephen Krashen defines bilingual education as “any use of two languages in school – by teachers or students or both – for a variety of social and pedagogical (educational) purposes” (1). Bilingual education confrontations in Texas are due to the overwhelming amount and diversity of immigrants in the past fifteen years. While good for population growth
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