EFFECTS OF BILINGUALISM TO THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF FOURTH YEAR HIGHS SCHOOL STUDENTS IN PASIG CATHOLIC COLLEGE Chapter 1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Introduction The use of mother tongue in learning allows students to learn the lesson quickly. It helps them to read and probably write quickly. (Yolanda Quijano‚ 1994). The use of the Filipino language in teaching develops lifelong learners who are proficient in the use of their native language and other languages. (Mona Valisino‚ 2006) Using
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Are Bilinguals Smarter Than Monolinguals? A Review of the Literature Luke James Walkington La Trobe University Are Bilinguals Smarter Than Monolinguals? A Review of the Literature ‘Bilingual’ people are differentiated from ‘Monolingual’ people by their frequent communication with two or more languages (Barac & Bialystok‚ 2012). Bilinguals are thought to be smarter than Monolinguals (Rubio-Fernández & Glucksberg‚ 2012). Smartness is a measure of successfulness in their education
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Blog Entry- English Language Imperialism Over the years‚ an estimate of 4000 languages die yearly. The main cause of this is the need for schools to teach English as a second language‚ indulging the idea of children learning another language causes the slowly dying out them speaking their native tongue. Language Death can manifest in various ways‚ like learning a new language and using it more than you use your native language‚ meaning that they can eventually lose their native language. Imperialism
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Argumentative Essay on Bilingual Education Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages. Bilingual Education is being taught school subjects in two different languages. The United States is home to millions of immigrants each with their own native backgrounds. The United States require the immigrants to learn the full English languages when settling into the country. The schools should give the opportunity to bilingual students‚ or new student immigrants the advantage to learn the English
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Cognitive flexibility sites http://www.health.am/ab/more/the-benefits-of-being-bilingual/ Source: The Journal of Neuroscience‚ 9 January 2013 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130108201519.htm Jan. 5‚ 2013. Society for Neuroscience (SfN). "Cognitive benefit of lifelong bilingualism." ScienceDaily‚ 5 Jan. 2013. Web. 12 Mar. 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/bilingual-brain-cognitive-flexibility_n_2432948.html 01/09/2013 http://linguistics.as.uky.edu/second-language-shows-benefits-aging-brain
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Language represents both unity and pluralism because the writers are united due to the fact that they are all writers but they are different in the sense that they all write about different things in different ways. In Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue”‚ Tan uses in the way that peoples language helps shape the way of life for many people as wells as their developmental stages. In the story‚ Tan’s mother speaks “broken” Chinese‚ so it’s her responsibility to translate her language into proper English. Tan
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Chapter 1 Introduction Code-switching‚ which may be defined as the alternation between two or more languages in a speaker’s speech‚ occurs naturally in the scheme of bilingualism. Studies have reported that code-switching often happened subconsciously; ‘people may not be aware that they have switched‚ or be able to report‚ following a conversation‚ which code they used for a particular topic’ (Wardaugh‚ 1998‚ p. 103). However‚ although bilingual speakers claim that code-switching is an unconscious
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In this modern era‚ majority of the world’s population is characterized as being bilingual. This is in most cases is manifested as a result of cross movement and interactions by people and societies which initiates the need to fit in and survive. The trend is seen as an important emerging perspective as it facilitates cross-cultural communication and positively affects cognitive abilities. Research shows that the bilingual brain can have better attention and task-switching capacities than the monolingual
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The loss of any language means a contraction‚ reduction and impoverishment of the sum total of the reservoir of human thought and knowledge as expressible through language. To what extent do you agree with this? As globalization takes place‚ languages spoken by the majority became lingua franca of different regions. English for example as its most widely spread across the entire world‚ is spoken by 360 to 400 million as their first language and 470 million to more than 1 billion as their second
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A TERM PAPER IN RESEARCH SEMINAR II SUMMER 2012-2013 SUBMITTED AS A PARTIAL REQUIREMENT TO DR. EMMANUEL DE GUZMAN BY SHIRLEY PEREZ-LOPEZ THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND The increasing number of pupils who obtained low grade in Mathematics is a cause of alarm to the Philippine educational system. Many studies have shown that there are actually many factors affecting achievement in Mathematics and one of these is the language factor. The mandate of a Bilingual
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