Growing up bilingual meant that not only was I lucky to be cultured in two languages but it also meant that I had an expanded vocabulary with words in Spanish and in English. In elementary‚ I felt uncomfortable speaking either language around my classmates because they would look at me strange if I spoke Spanish with someone and then weird again if I spoke English and I felt that I had to identify with just one. Once I got into my teenage years I learned that being bilingual was not a disadvantage
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Bilingual Children with Communicative Disorders: Understanding and Treating University of Arkansas Abstract This report studied what was already known about bilingual children with communicative disorders in order to address specific problems that come up in this field. Studies done on this specific population within the past decade were found by searching online databases. The studies were then analyzed and organized into methods and results with a discussion to explain any findings. Findings
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Spanish is the language I’ve known all my life. It’s the language my family and I have used since we were able to speak. I never really questioned when other people would use a different language. I don’t even remember other people speaking a different language than me until I moved to a different elementary school. I attended pre-k through second grade at Perez Elementary. There‚ from I remember‚ all the classes where taught in Spanish‚ so I was never exposed to a different language. Things drastically
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Everyone has a talent or skill that they’re proud of‚ mine has to be being bilingual. Being bilingual can be very helpful not just to me‚ but to others as well. Speaking two languages can help me with any new career opportunities that would make me stand out and take me very far in life. I have worked really hard to get to where I am today. My family only spoke Spanish to me so I wasn’t able to learn English. My oldest sibling growing up didn’t speak English either. When I started elementary
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everyone else and even their children when they start taking ESL (English as a Second Language). They will start to have a wider spread vocabulary then the parents own and can feel as if they’re being disconnected from them as well. In the poem Bilingual/Bilingüe by Rhina Espaillat this struggle is shown. This poem shows how family relationship can be affected from a language barrier by causing emotional‚ cultural and educational differences. A language barrier can affect the emotional aspect of
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people who are becoming bilingual. Society tends to use language to communicate and identify with other cultures. Language is also used to communicate with everyone around the world. Imagine the possibilities that being bilingual would bring to others. Bilingual Education brings many positive outcomes to children and even adults. Although‚ it may be expensive to teach others a second language‚ being bilingual has many great benefits. If people were to get bilingual education‚ everyone would see the
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BILINGUAL CHILDREN STORY BOOK : A FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF LEARNING ENGLISH Agnes Widyaningrum‚ SE‚ M.Pd Abstract Indonesian children are born as bilingual even multilingual children because Indonesia is a rich country having many different cultures. As one of cultural products‚ language can be learnt through various ways‚ one example is by reading children storybook. Language use is always socially and culturally situated. Learning English is a process of tranforming linguistics
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ENGLISH ONLY COURT CASES INVOLVING THE U.S. WORKPLACE: THE MYTHS OF LANGUAGE USE AND THE HOMOGENIZATION OF BILINGUAL WORKERS’ IDENTITIES Kari Gibson University of Hawai‘i Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects against discrimination in employment on the basis of race‚ color‚ sex‚ religion and national origin. However when the judicial system has examined English Only workplace policies in light of Title VII‚ it has generally determined that such policies are not discriminatory if an
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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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Being Bilingual The world has become a small village. People from different countries communicate with each other daily. Therefore‚ the need for bilingualism has become urgent for several reasons such as migration‚ having parents who speak a different language or studying in an international school. In fact‚ speaking two languages can help us get better job opportunities and open up our mind.
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