is applied in all areas in Indonesia. Bilingual education is an education method in school which involves using two languages in instruction. Bilingualism is important for both language majorities and minorities for cognitive‚ social‚ and psychological aspects. By applying this method in schools‚ student expected to have a good result in those aspects. Research conducted by Bialystok (1999) has indicated increased concentration abilities among bilinguals‚ Hakuta and Diaz (1985) found a connection
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Why Do We not Consider the Benefits? Bilingual education is like the seat belts in the back of your car. They both serve as helpful attachments that can only prepare you for the future. Bilingual education is a form of education in which information is presented to the student in two or more languages. By broadening a student’s scope to two or more languages‚ students hold an advantage when entering the professional world. The professional world is where work gets serious and adults have to face
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Bilingual Education By: Amy EDBL 4316-850 Dr. Luna Fall 2009 Bilingual Education The objective of bilingual education is to insure students will not fall behind academically because of a poor ability to speak English‚ and to gradually teach them English as a second language. If minority students were taught some subjects in their native tongue‚ proponents insist they could possibly learn English‚ without sacrificing content knowledge (Education). With
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I. Meaning “Bilingual Education Policy (BEP) in the Philippines is defined operationally as the separate use of Filipino and English as the media of instruction in specific subject areas”. As embodied in the DECS Order‚ Filipino shall be used as a medium of instruction in social studies/ social sciences‚ music‚ arts‚ physical education‚ home economics‚ practical arts and character education. English‚ on the other hand is allocated to science‚ mathematics‚ and technology subjects. BEP clearly states
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by developmental psychologists revealed that parents should take an active role in increasing the mental ability of their bilingual children. In the US‚ around 20 percent of children speak a foreign language at home. There are major differences on how young children of bilinguals learn a new language compared to those who only know one language. The education of bilinguals starts at a young age‚ and they begin to learn to speak and write by observing the people around them. An example is the
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Code switching is a surviving skill that some bilingual people and students encompass‚ sometimes to compensate for the lack of vocabulary in a certain language. It is defined as language alteration between two languages‚ transferring from one language to another in the course of a conversation (Brice‚ p. 10) In the teaching field code-switching has a great importance because it can be used by teachers or students in story telling to aid interaction‚ comprehension‚ and classroom participation‚ since
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perspective of a researcher”. This paper reviews key points from the article to show how it relates to our current studies of chapter eleven‚ Later Language Acquisition. It also describes how hard it is to acquire a new language‚ the author‚ who is also bilingual‚ has experience at Second Language Acquisition. Our textbook explains that “Second Language Acquisition or Sequential Bilingualism”‚ which is to acquire a second language after already acquiring a native language (Carroll‚ 2008. Pg.310). His career
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Alandy Dy June 18‚ 2014 Language and Literature C Ms. Cruz CRE: Bilingual Policy in the Philippines By King Alandy Dy Foreigners often perceive the Philippines as a country with excellent English. Many businesses rush to the Philippines to put up international call centers while Asian students come to the Philippines to learn English. This is largely due to the bilingual education which we receive in the Philippines. There are many laws which state that both English
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Professional Article Review ESL-433N 15 Jan 2014 Professional Article Review Bilingual education is a rapidly growing issue for educators all across the United States and dates back farther than many might assume. The impact of bilingual education quite possibly dates back to the early settlers in North America in 1664. It was said that at least eighteen different languages were spoken during the time of the 17th century in addition to the many Native American languages
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do‚ our country wouldn’t be free. We live in a free society and laws will not change what we speak. In the “Good Immigrant Student’‚ Bich Nugygen’s spoke two languages English and Vietnamese. Her step-mother‚ Rosa puts her and her sister Anh in a bilingual school. They knew more English then Vietnamese. Her race had contributed to her identity. The teacher’s treated her badly because of her race. The Teacher stated “a foreigner winning our spelling bee!”(Nguyen 461). Her teachers were very rude to
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