Many jobs have a bi-lingual pay bonus. My co-worker gets a bonus because he speaks "Hungarian". How many hungarians do you know around here? In my previous job‚ the bonus pay was like 2.5% added to your paycheck. Some jobs require you to be bi-lingual‚ and some jobs prefer bi-linguals (in any language)‚ hence putting a non-bi-lingual person at a disadvantage. It gives you a back-up language to fall onto when you’re having a communication issue‚ thus having a higher chance of communication. For
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Immersion or Bilingual Education? One in every nine students today speaks a native language other than English‚ and it has been predicted that within the next twenty years‚ non-English speaking students will become as common as one in every four students (Goldenberg 10). This raises a question of how to give students the best education while helping them learn English. There are two basic forms of education used in schools today for English language learners (ELLs)‚ English immersion and bilingual programs
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Advantages of Being Bilingual Being able to speak two different languages is one of the best abilities to have in todays world. Especially living in the United States‚ which is such a diverse country‚ it really does come in handy. Benefits of being diverse in languages are that you have a greater change of getting that job that’s extremely competitive‚ and you’ll have a wider range of culturalism in your life. As someone who is bilingual‚ I can say that I have experienced certain advantages
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An Effective Assessment Plan for a Bilingual Early Learning Program: Integrating Montessori‚ High/Scope‚ and Constructivist approaches from a Leadership and Personal Point of View Adriana Ferrari University of Calgary Summary Montessori‚ High Scope‚ and recent constructivist theories are properly integrated in this paper in order to create an effective assessment plan in a two-way bilingual early educational program. Montessori Method promotes the 21st Century Competencies such
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Bili Bilingual Education: A Life-Long Advantage Alexa Adams It is concerning to see the U.S. continue to academically fall behind countries like China and Finland. The Program for International Student Assessment or PISA‚ is an international standardized test taken by 15 year-olds in developing countries. The U.S.‘s Secretary of State‚ Arne Duncan (2010)‚ was disappointed in the results‚ “The United States came in 23rd or 24th in most subjects. We can quibble‚ or we can face
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As a boy‚ the main problem he faced was he struggled to speak sufficient English. One factor that contributed to this problem was the bilingual education he received from a Roman Catholic School. Rodriguez described bilingual education as a “scheme” that “was foolish and certainly doomed.” The second contributing factor was his parents. As mexican immigrants‚ Rodriguez’s parents never learned how to properly communicate in English
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Bilingual Education in the United States can be defined as “a program that seeks to permit non-English speaking children (many from lower-class homes) to use their ‘family language’ as the language of school” (Rodriguez 256). In other words‚ it is a method of education that suggests that a child whose native language is not English should learn English in institutions while being instructed in classes in his or her home language as well. This form of teaching has been a strong point of controversy
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BILINGUAL PROGRAM: CHILDREN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT ABSTRACT This paper discussed on bilingual program that become one of the reasons parents choose schools for their children and its effect on children language development. As the impact of globalization English become a necessity for everyone in exploring and finding new things across the globe. Educational institutions see this as an opportunity to introduce bilingual program as a respond to the demand of society. Keywords: Bilingualism
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psychological scientists‚ have started analyzing bilinguals in order to see if there are any differences in the way they think‚ behave and if speaking multiple languages affects them. They soon reached the conclusion that there are shifts in bilinguals’ personality and even their brains suffer changes. Emotions‚ expressing and interpreting them‚ also differ in the case of a bilingual person‚ as research shows. In her article‚ “Bilingual Lives‚ Bilingual Experiences”‚ Anna Wierzbicka explores this exact
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Stereotypes: Bilingual Education for Hispanic Students Bilingual education has been looked down on for various reasons. Most of the beliefs behind the reasons are due to misconceptions about bilingual education students. While bilingual education can be for any student who’s primary language is not English‚ those of Hispanic descent are the largest majority. Possibly due to this fact‚ they are looked down upon and are seen in a negative light. Opponents of bilingual education believe
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