“Philosophy of Bilingual Education” sounds so official‚ so academic‚ and a bit intimidating as well. How and when does a teacher form a philosophy of bilingual education? That question has caused me to dig into my past and ponder each of my teaching experiences as well as the opinions of respected loved ones. I have also taken into consideration the philosophies and opinions of other teachers I have known and spoken to on this matter. My Experience Teaching LEP Students After graduating from
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language. My first point is learning foreign language has a wonderful effect on human’s brain. This is because the research which looked at brain densities of bilingual people. There were three types of people‚ some of them speak only one language‚ and some of them learned a second language before 5 years old‚ and others became bilingual between ages 10 and 15 . This research was carried out by Mecelli (Micheli) who is London’s Department of imaging Neuroscience researcher. Brain imaging showed
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Movements for bilingual education rose in 1974 with the Equal Education Opportunity Act and Bingual Education Act‚ which ordered federally funded schools to meet special educational needs for students not proficient in English. Unfortunately‚ dropout rates and lack of English-language proficiency alarmed the states that these bilingual programs were not efficent. Because of this‚ arguments between English-only advocates and supporters of bilingual educations emerged. Articles such as the New York
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they were not afraid to take risks. Since they had lower anxiety‚ they had a higher self-confidence leading to a higher motivation to learn a new language. A similar study conducted by Ozanska-Ponikwia and Dewaele (2012)‚ studied the advantage of being open-minded and self confident in an immigration context. They collected data from 102 polish individuals ranging from the age of 17-58 years old. The participants were evaluated by personality and socio-biographical questionnaire. They found that
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stigmatized statuses that are presented in the world that they start to become normal in everyday life. By normal‚ I mean that stigmas such of race‚ gender‚ and sexuality are generalized in ways that people forget the hurt behind these oppressed groups. Being an African American woman‚ I have two stigmas against me from the beginning. Without even getting to know who I am as a person‚ I am judged by the stereotypes that have been presented towards my race and gender from the past. The population that I
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Why is it important to be bilingual? Answer: Being bilingual allows you to communicate better with other people. It can aid you in school‚ business‚ travel or everyday life. Many people find that learning a second language also helps them improve their first. Phonetics‚ grammar points‚ and other things that native speakers usually take for granted‚ you will start to notice in your own language after learning about them in another. It’s important to be bilingual because it knowing two different
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Transgressing Monolingualism and Bilingual Dualities: Translanguaging Pedagogies Ofelia García‚ Nelson Flores and Heather Homonoff Woodley A. Yiakoumetti (ed.). Harnessing Linguistic Variation for Better Education. Peter Lang. Throughout the world language minorities are most often educated in schools that have been designed for language majorities. Usually they are educated only through the medium of the dominant state language. But even when they are given the opportunity to be educated
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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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Some would argue that being a parent or a child existing in a bilingual environment may be only of an invaluable merit. This is true‚ with the assumption that both parties have similar expectations or do not have any that would conflict them and there is no the outside or a so called family pressure. Let us dwell to some extent on the merits. To begin with‚ the unquestionable advantage children would experience is the exposure to double language environment. If the learning process is not
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