Issues on Mother Tongue as a medium of Instruction These changes in curricular content and focus emanate from the bill’s intention to do away with the bilingual policy and to affirm mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE). The bill provides that for kindergarten and from Grades 1-3‚ the regional or native language of the learners shall be used for instruction‚ teaching materials and testing. From Grades 4-6‚ there shall be a language transition plan so that Filipino and English are
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Semantic transfer hypothesis According to the semantic transfer hypothesis‚ the semantic content residing in L2 word is transferred from their L1 translations. A clear understanding of the process is required for any attempt to develop a theory of vocabulary acquisition. One of the issues that has received the most attention is how the two languages of bilingual speaker are connected to each other and to conceptual representations. It is often assumed that L2 learners acquire new meanings while
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The ethnic composition of the United States is slowly trending towards a greater percentage of minorities‚ and among those ethnic groups there are thousands and thousands of immigrants‚ each of whom brings with them their own cultural experience and language. Correlating with that trend‚ the number of language immersion schools in the United States has increased from 50 in 1985 to 448 in 2011 (“Growth of Language Immersion in the United States 1971-2011”)‚ a marked growth that can be attributed in
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Learning a second language is one of the most rewarding things a person can do in life. Learning a second language allows someone to view the world from a different perspective. Bilingualism can occur in two different ways‚ simultaneously and sequentially. Simultaneous bilingualism is when a child is learning multiple languages from the time they are born. Whereas‚ sequential bilingualism is when a child or adult learns a second language after already acquiring a first. For the purpose of this paper
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Benefits of Official Bilingualism behind the Economic Efficiency Disclosure about maintaining official bilingualism in Canada has been controversial issue among those interested including the government‚ companies‚ and individuals. The main approaches surrounding this issue can be summarized by economic and social reasons. To elaborate‚ various economic sectors‚ and particular certain companies‚ have to pay the cost when they produce their products by offering information based on bilingualism for
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The Tower of Hanoi Task: Is there a Difference between Bilingual and Trilingual Individuals in Executive Function? Abstract The aim of the present study was to test whether there was a difference in executive functions between individuals who are bilingual and individuals who are trilingual. A mixed design was used as both of these groups were required to carry out the same tasks which consisted of the Tower of Hanoi task that 2 practice trials and 5 actual trials which were either difficult or easy
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Marissa M. Molina ENGL 0625 Descriptive Essay Final September 20‚ 2013 Dora The Explorer Come on vamaños everybody lets go! I believe that the cartoon Dora The Explorer is one of the cartoons that more children should watch. The cartoon is very educational to children. The show teaches them information that they can use in the future such as another language. Dora The Explorer teaches children Spanish through the cartoon. I am going to explain to you three reasons I believe every
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Research demonstrates an array of benefits when a child is taught through his first language. In multilingual countries with a dominant national or international language‚ it is recommended that children experience at least five to eight years of education in their mother tongue while gradually being introduced to other dominant languages (Thomas & Collier‚ 2002 in Oredina‚ et al 2015). The strategy of beginning school in the first language and eventually adding other languages is commonly called
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In 2010‚ professor Anna Wierzbicka‚ from the Department of Linguistics‚ Australian National University‚ published a preface called “Bilingual lives‚ bilingual experience” in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development‚ in which she claims that a bilingual faces some problems in expressing and distinguishing between emotions on both languages. She gives the example of her Polish-English background and supports that often people who are bilingual make confusions regarding the cultural and
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American Sign Language‚ commonly abbreviated ASL‚ is the native and natural language of individuals living in the United States who are Deaf. ASL finds its parentage in primarily two distinct sources; signs that were used communicatively within smaller communities of people in the 16th through 19th Centuries in the Colonies and States of the U.S.‚ and the strong influence of Old French Sign Language which was introduced in the mid 19th Century. As with any creole‚ over a matter of just a couple of
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