To my question asking what the bilingual students’ strengths are‚ Melissa answered that she appreciates the diversity that her “ELLs(English language learners)” bring into the classroom including different experiences in their home countries and different background knowledge as the strengths that the students have. She said that the ELL’s mainstream English-speaking peers are very curious on their ELL peers and love to hear about their countries and why they are here. On the other hand‚ what Melissa
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opportunity to interview Ms. Maria‚ a third-grade bilingual teacher with a little over ten years of experience‚ and the mother of my classmate. Ms. Maria just like her students has English as her second language but began her journey at the age of seventeen. This experience allows her to be more compassionate and understanding with her students’ situations as she went through the same thing but at a later age. I personally have never been enrolled in a bilingual class so this interview was insightful to
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one another. In today’s society it seems that knowing multiple languages is almost a necessity. The United States is largely monolingual. Only about 15-20% of Americans consider themselves bilingual‚ compared to 56 percent of Europeans surveyed in 2006 by the European Commission.The advantages of being bilingual is practically never ending if you think about it. We live in a multilingual universe. This universe depends on being able to find and build the bonds and bridges that connect us across our
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Bilingual in America {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} Bilingual in America {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} Shonese Warrington {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} AED/200 October 18‚ 2009 Kimberly D. Jackson Bilingual in America There are many ongoing debates on whether or not our children should learn more than one language. I feel that it is imperative in today’s society to know more than one language. Knowing more than one language opens up so many
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behaviourist theory explains that children learn language through imitating and experimenting with sounds. Therefore a parent can help their child learn a second language if they give their child opportunity to practice. Supporting your child’s bilingual literacy learning: •
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to communicate with each other. It is very important to speak two languages. There are two advantage of being bilingual. The first benefits is that you can get a job easily and a second advantage is that you can translate to other people in you r language. The first reason is that you can get a job easily. Some companies prefer the workers who know bilingual language. It meets customers’ demands. You will have more an opportunity to get a job than some one else does
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observation at Hinojosa EC/PK center. The time frame that was given to me to obverse was from 8:30am to 11:00am in a bilingual classroom who belonged to Mr. Villa who was awarded the teacher of the year. Sitting in and observing this classroom of nineteen students I could see exactly why he was awarded as the teacher of the year. Taking on the responsibility of teaching a bilingual class is not all that simple‚ there are several routines that were done over time to have the children learn in short
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Abstract This essay deliberates the benefits of being bilingual. The information has been analyzed from resources dating from September 2010 through 2012. The idea put forth in this essay is to prove that the brain of a bilingual person is agile and nimble. It argues a bilingual signs in babies having the ability to distinguish between two languages as young as 4 months old. It also presents how infants show a strong preference for the language their mother spoke during pregnancy. It confirms that
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this modern era‚ majority of the world’s population is characterized as being bilingual. This is in most cases is manifested as a result of cross movement and interactions by people and societies which initiates the need to fit in and survive. The trend is seen as an important emerging perspective as it facilitates cross-cultural communication and positively affects cognitive abilities. Research shows that the bilingual brain can have better attention and task-switching capacities than the monolingual
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IDIOMS IN BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more languages‚ and it reflects the vocabulary of a language. Its purpose is to provide information on the meaning of words‚ combinations with other words‚ sometimes also pronunciation and other aspects of a language. Dictionaries can be classified by many different aspects – for example‚ a dictionary can be monolingual‚ bilingual‚ bilingualised or even multilingual. If the dictionary is bilingual‚ it can be either
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