Nowadays‚ the composition of the American classrooms has seen many changes. Due to the increased immigration‚ culturally diverse student population has been constantly growing. The statistics predict that by 2030‚ more than 40% of students in the United States will be students of color. The wide cultural diversity may cause misunderstandings and controversies in the teacher-student relationship. How should the teachers respond to this situation? What do they need to know and what can they do to prevent
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make sure that all students become proficient in English‚ and have the same educational opportunities. There are many legislations that have advocated for the equal rights of English learners‚ including: Section 601 of the Civil Rights Act‚ the Bilingual Education Act‚ and Lau vs. Nichols. Section 601 of the Civil Rights Act (1964) Section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 “prohibits discrimination based on color‚ race‚ or origin in any program or activity receiving federal assistance‚” and in
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ourselves‚ and the young woman is clearly making the right choice. She is not struggling with her decision; she knows what will give her the edge in today’s competitive job market. In an article posted on the AOL Jobs web page‚ “Why It Pays to Be Bilingual‚” (AOL Jobs Contributor‚ Posted Jan 26th 2009) they confirm what Rosetta Stone is stating. “Thirty-one percent of executives speak two languages‚ according to a poll of 12‚562 visitors to the Korn/Ferry International Web site. An
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teaching. It may or may not be the official language of the country or territory. Where the first language of students is different from the official language‚ it may be used as the medium of instruction for part or all of schooling and universities Bilingual or multilingual education may involve the use of more than one language of instruction. UNESCO considers that "providing education in a child’s mother tongue is indeed a critical issue" Native-language instruction is the practice of teaching schoolchildren
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Model|Benefits|Challenges| Early Exit Bilingual |Makes efficient use of limited bilingual teachers by concentrating them at early grades Maintains native oral language fluency Builds in bilingual communication with parents.|Language skills may not be fully developed to transfer to English.Students tend to take longer to mainstream in this program.Success of early-exit TBE measured more by speed at which students are mainstreamed than content-area learning.| Bilingual Immersion |Appears to improve language
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The issue of English language learners (ELL) and their rights to an education has been a major topic of debate for many years. Should ELL students be taught in their first language? Will they learn English‚ or should they be put into English speaking classes? That has been the topic of discussion amongst educators. Which method is better for the student? The arguments continue and many states and school districts have made a decision on what to do. One state in particular had a serious ELL problem
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Legally adopting English as the United States’ official language essentially means the elimination of all oral and written forms of bilingual government services such as public safety services‚ health services‚ and social welfare services‚ as well as courtroom translation and driver’s license examinations. It means an end to bilingual education‚ bilingual ballots‚ and bilingual citizenship tests. To the government this means less money spent on these services‚ but to those with a limited proficiency in
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We raised this problem in one of the class meetings as a group discussion. One person questioned if teachers should be proficient in both languages in order to teach in bilingual schools‚ or does he or she only needs to know the basic in one language and be proficient in the other. Personally‚ I would prefer teachers who are proficient in both languages‚ because they should receive pedagogical trainings before teaching any
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child to fully understand either language properly. Later studies then shown that people who were bilingual may not have as a diverse vocabulary‚ but the overall cognitive ability to speak another language did not hinder the overall development. Using a technique to be able to watch infants brain development with brain imaging‚ researchers were able to tell if there was a difference between bilingual and monolingual babies. With the monolingual babies‚ it was discovered that around the age of one
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Filtering of the speech signal is one way to increase the difficulty of the perceptual task. Filtered speech has the ability to decrease the redundancy of the speech signal and increase the sensitivity to the brain lesion. The listener’s performance will be significantly worse on a filtered Speech recognition task than on an unfiltered speech recognition task because the CANS would be incapable of compensating for the missing information with a breakdown of redundancy of the CANS (lesion). The filtered
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