occupation does not describe everything about me or the path I have taken to get me to where I am today. I wish to teach for a few years in different schools in the New York City Educational System. I also wish to compare the different types of Bilingual Education Programs in New York City and decide the type of program I want to be a part of. I believe that I can make a difference in the New York City Educational System by contributing to the instruction of newly arrivals. In two semesters‚ I will
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English 101 October 22‚ 2013 Bilingual Education The United States is a diverse country of many different races and languages. Even though many languages are spoken in the United States‚ English is the preferred language in the United States. Speaking English in America is the key to success. Without English‚ acquiring employment is almost impossible. More and more immigrants are attracted to the U.S every year‚ and the populations of immigrants‚ which do not know the American culture‚ continue
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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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The analysis for the Bilingual Education Attitudes Survey theorizes that items in the survey have a strong correlation‚ which demonstrates evidence for construct validity. Measuring both the convergent and discriminant validity supports this theory because in Table 1‚ there is a very strong positive correlation between the first administration (r= .91) and a strong positive correlation with the second administration (r= .86)‚ in relation to the previously validated bilingual education scale. Moreover
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Turnbull believes that prior to addressing the issue of emergent bilingual the term bilingual definition should be tackled first. He explained that the various criteria used to determine a bilingual such as fluency‚ native-like command‚ and complete and meaningful languages production caused the different definition bilingual. Moreover‚ the two most renowned definitions for bilingual offered by Mackey and Grosjean emphasized on having linguistic knowledge and using the language on a regular base
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Bilingual Culture; The Role of a Second and a Foreign Language Children learn their native language “Nasa-yuwe” at home and it is spoken among members of their own community‚ but at the time of interacting outside their native communities‚ they must switch to Spanish. Likewise it happens when they have access to the external world like in the case of radio and the internet; what at times suggests that interaction in the outer language (Spanish) has more relevance than interaction in the
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The Academic Benefits of Bilinguals When it comes to the academic benefits of bilingual education amid students‚ it has been pointed out that grade three students who were taken through bilingual education from their kindergarten level of education did not perform in the same way Spanish-speaking students who started in English-only programs did in their class tests (Carlson &Meltzof‚ 2008). Spanish speaking children performed exceptionally better. However‚ as the same students advanced in their
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Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood by Richard Rodriguez is an essay that shows his readers a part of life that many have never experienced. Rodriguez uses this essay to show how he fights through his childhood to understand English. Speaking clear English will help him to fit in to society. He faces society while forfeiting his happy home life‚ to try to become a typical English-speaking student. As a young child‚ Rodriguez finds comfort and safety in his noisy home full of Spanish sounds
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countries started to form a closer relationship with each other. Being bilingual or multilingual is a recent trend for people who have ambition to build further and better careers. This essay will analyse why it is important to learn more than one language and elaborate some suggestions to raise children to be bilingual. On the topic of learning two or more languages‚ there are a few positive impacts on individuals. First of all‚ bilingual or multilingual are more competitive in social life. People who
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media and political representation on policies relating to the aboriginal population‚ resulted in the lack of impetus in education policies for aboriginal children. This paper will look at the reasons for NT government reluctance in implementing Bilingual education policies through examining the viewpoints of government(policymaker)‚ media (actors) and
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