understand its language. Therefore‚ knowing the significance and effectiveness of bilingual education and the fundamental characteristics of the Latino community is a perfect way to begin a journey into the depths of the Spanish language and the culture surrounding it. To begin‚ before high school‚ I knew next-to-nothing about the Hispanic population nor Latino culture in the United
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Growing up bilingual meant that not only was I lucky to be cultured in two languages but it also meant that I had an expanded vocabulary with words in Spanish and in English. In elementary‚ I felt uncomfortable speaking either language around my classmates because they would look at me strange if I spoke Spanish with someone and then weird again if I spoke English and I felt that I had to identify with just one. Once I got into my teenage years I learned that being bilingual was not a disadvantage
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If I could interview anyone‚ who would it be? Jesus If I could interview anyone‚ dead or alive‚ it would have to be Jesus. I would want to interview him because he was a man different from you and I. He was the son of God‚ a man without sins. Being of the Christian faith‚ there are many questions that are unanswered concerning God‚ Heaven‚ and the Bible. What impresses me is how he endured the hostility that came to him without going sour on people. How could he do it? The Bible indicates his never
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Bilingual and monolingual dictionaries both have advantages. The chief advantages of a bilingual dictionary are its brevity and simplicity. In a bilingual dictionary‚ you can look up a word from the target language (the language you are learning)‚ and you will see a direct translation for this word in your native language‚ without having to navigate text in the target language that you may not easily understand. This makes a bilingual dictionary quick and easy for a learner at any level to access
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Rebecca M. Callahan and Patricia C. Gándara’s 2014 edited volume The Bilingual Advantage: Language‚ Literacy and the US Labor Market‚ aims to examine the economic and employment benefits of bilingualism in the era of globalization. By presenting 12 recent studies that initiate a discourse of interdisciplinary perspectives‚ this four-section volume demonstrates the overall positive but evidently complex economic effects of bilingualism. The contributors’ exploration of the role of bilingualism in
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Long Hard Road of Adolescence Reading through the novel‚ Go Ask Alice‚ finding out all of the unbelievable‚ yet true‚ experiences and feelings of Alice is quite shocking. No matter how shocking they may seem‚ you can very easily relate those experiences and feelings to those of a typical day-in and day-out teenager. Those characteristics being loneliness‚ a generation gap‚ and defiance. At the beginning of the novel‚ Alice finds herself to be very lonely. As like other teenagers‚ she
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elementary school children received bilingual education‚ which is double the current level. In 1968 the Bilingual Education Act was passed‚ which did not require bilingual education‚ but used students’ native languages in the curriculum to one degree or another. With the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001‚ bilingual education was left far behind‚ and was no longer a part of the national framework for elementary schools (“Bilingual Education”). Now‚ bilingual education in the United States
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Final Project: Interview‚ Day in the Life of a Counselor‚ and Reflection The purpose of this paper is to introduce an interview with a Marriage Family Therapists‚ since in the state of California we do not have as yet Mental Health Counselor. The interview is about the viewpoint of the therapist regarding certain questions. The paper will be formatted in APA style Section I: Summary of Mental Health Counselor Interview Juliet Velarde Betita‚ MFT who is located in Santa Barbara California. Ms
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Company Secretary Statement Why did I decide to take this job? - Even before we distributed the jobs among our team‚ I knew I wouldn’t mind being any of these directors. I read the characteristics that people who wanted to do the following jobs had to have (Managing Director‚ Company Secretary‚ Finance Director‚ Operation Director‚ Sales & marketing Director) and I recognized almost all of them in me. I was ready to take any role. When we stared to choose our jobs‚ I told my team that I
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people. In fact there are actually more bilingual individuals around the world compared to monolingual‚ suggesting that many countries are bilingual (Bialystok et al.‚ 2012). A bilingual individual is defined by society as being able to fluently speak two languages (Woolfolk et al.‚ 2012). Contrastingly‚ a monolingual individual is defined as only being able to speak one language‚ which is often called the mother tongue (Woolfolk et al.‚ 2012). Bilingual education is certainly a subject of controversy
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