speak are bilingual can communicate and do businesses with overseas companies. Being bilingual can also provide people other jobs besides working in companies such as a translator‚ language teacher‚ and tour guide. Being able to speak another languages can also award people a higher position in their jobs resulting in a larger salary. “A 2010 study found that‚ in Quebec‚ men in bilingual positions earned almost 21% more than their unilingual Francophone counterparts‚ while women in bilingual positions
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authors claimed that “The development of bilingual or second language learning is of enormous importance” (p.25). They argued also that acquisition of more than one language in our new global world is rewarding for bilingual individuals socially and economically. The authors stated that most children nowadays are exposed to more than one language during their early childhood and schooling time. Some may learn two languages at the same time ‘simultaneous bilinguals’ while others may learn the other language
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language”‚ while some believe bilingualism is better for the United States. In the article “A Nation divided by one language”‚ the author James Crawford provides many research statistics that prove bilinguals are generally smarter than monolinguals. He believes that the media misleads people into believing bilingual education is bad. Crawford states that if one only receives information from the media‚ one would have the same thoughts that most Americans have (Crawford
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As a bilingual speaker‚ Rodriguez wrote Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood to disapprove “bilingual education.” Narrating about his childhood living as a bilingual child in the states‚ he claims his points. For the successful deliverance of his message‚ he uses several writing styles—metaphor‚ parenthesis‚ and anaphora—throughout his essay. In the first part of his memoir‚ Rodriguez refers himself as a listening child who carefully hears the very different sounds of Spanish and English. Since
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they belong to resulted what is known by: children bilingualism. Many scholars were preoccupied by this complex task and debated on it. They focused on the simultaneous acquisition of two languages from birth‚ or what is generally referred to as bilingual first language acquisition. Some major hypothesis were done; whether the young child initially forms one linguistic system‚ which he or she gradually differentiates into separated linguistic systems or whether the child actually forms two separated
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when they produce their products by offering information based on bilingualism for customers. Moreover‚ not only companies but also the government has to pay for it. According to Fraser‚ around $2.4-billion has been paid for federal and provincial bilingual services (quoted in Baluja and Bradshaw). However‚ the cost that companies
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Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the Only Language “Rather than insisting that it is the immigrant’s duty to learn the language of this country‚ the government has acted as if it has a duty to accommodate an immigrant in his native language. " By S.I. Hayakawa 1 DURING the dark days of World War 11‚ Chinese immigrants in California wore badges proclaiming their original nationality so they would not be mistaken for Japanese. In fact‚ these two immigrant groups long had
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as medium of instruction in schools. (Rebecca Alcantara‚ et al‚ 1996) According to the 1986 Philippine constitution‚ the Philippine educational system implemented the use of bilingualism in all levels of educational institutions in our country. Bilingual education aims to use both English and Filipino as medium of instruction for students to achieve quality education with the help of the collaboration of the two languages. (Tony Rimando‚ 1994‚ Manila bulletin) This research aims to know the effects
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Federal laws were enacted protecting the use of bilingual ballots in districts that have large populations of non English speakers. As a society we value literacy as a passport to full participation in American society; but not use mastery of the English language as a qualification for citizenship. The costs associated with bilingual voting is no more onerous than voter registration drives‚ providing wheelchair access to polling areas‚ providing
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handle language" Simpson‚ J Three types of bilingualism are usually used by researchers to describe bilingual children: 1. Simultaneous bilingualism: Learning two languages as "first languages". That is‚ a person who is a simultaneous bilingual goes from speaking no languages at all directly to speaking two languages. Infants who are exposed to two languages from birth will become simultaneous bilinguals. 2. Receptive bilingualism: Being able to understand two languages but express oneself in only
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