The article “By Bilingual Acquisition”‚ Genesee (2006) explains how children learn and acquire languages. There are a lot of children who live in different environments from their mother languages such as Arabic. They are exposed to another language‚ and it may affect them. There are also careful parents and educated people who think negatively about childhood bilingualism. This phenomenon is common in some communities where some children grow up with their mother tongue‚ and the parents try to speak
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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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(FROM WIKIPIDEA PAGE 1&2) The Aeta (Ayta‚ pronounced eye-tə)‚ or Agta‚ are an indigenous people who live in scattered‚ isolated mountainous parts of Luzon‚ Philippines. They are considered to be Negritos‚ who are dark to very dark brown-skinned and tend to have features such as a small stature‚ small frame‚ curly to kinky afro-like textured hair with a higher frequency of naturally lighter hair color (blondism) relative to the general population‚ small nose‚ and dark brown eyes. They are thought
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Is Bilingual Education an effective way for our students to be learning in our schools today? This is a question that has been asked in this country for many years. It has been an issue of controversy for many years. Many people believe that Bilingual Education is a modern day issue that has recently been a focus point in our country. Bilingual Education and all of its components has been a part of our education system for over 100 years and since then the battle of how to teach it and what the effects
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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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Jerry Smith once said‚ “ I may be a twin‚ but I’m one of a kind.” This quote is highly applicable in my life. I am a fraternal twin and this fact has highly impacted my life. Being a twin has highly impacted my life because I had barely ever been alone before coming to college. This meant that finally being able to be alone was a big deal for me. My twin sister‚ Danielle‚ and I have always done everything together whether we liked it or not. From the time we started school‚ our parents had always
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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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Effects on Bilingual Education of the selected public and private secondary schools in the Municipality of Siquijor. Chapter 1: The Problem and Its Background Introduction: The effectiveness of such program measures through the performance of the learners. The institution continues to find more effective way of teaching day by day. The great impact on how students’ understanding cognitively and heartily absorbed in their minds and hearts depends upon the various approaches being applied. Many
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