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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Transgressing Monolingualism and Bilingual Dualities: Translanguaging Pedagogies Ofelia García‚ Nelson Flores and Heather Homonoff Woodley A. Yiakoumetti (ed.). Harnessing Linguistic Variation for Better Education. Peter Lang. Throughout the world language minorities are most often educated in schools that have been designed for language majorities. Usually they are educated only through the medium of the dominant state language. But even when they are given the opportunity to be educated
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Everyone has those things that they like doing. Something that i enjoy doing a lot is coding. It is something that i starting doing because it was something that i was somewhat interested in. I was one to usually not be interested in a lot of things. This topic had interested me enough in that i decided to try it. It eventually because something that i enjoy learning about a lot. Eventually it helped me find something that i thoroughly enjoy doing and helped me become open to other things. I always
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Why is it important to be bilingual? Answer: Being bilingual allows you to communicate better with other people. It can aid you in school‚ business‚ travel or everyday life. Many people find that learning a second language also helps them improve their first. Phonetics‚ grammar points‚ and other things that native speakers usually take for granted‚ you will start to notice in your own language after learning about them in another. It’s important to be bilingual because it knowing two different
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six years (Porter‚ “The Case against Bilingual Education”). This is the serious and worrying problem that BE presents to our immigrants and ELLs. Continued segregation will result in lower and lower performance in school SEI programs provide radically different results: A Washington Post study revealed that many immigrant children participating in SEI programs are at the top of their classes after only a few years (Geyer‚ “Schools Should Not Employ Bilingual Education”). As seen time and time again
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fear of violating the principle of “separation of powers.” The Higher Education Act (1965) raised federal aid to public and private universities‚ granted scholarships and low-interest loans to students‚ and set up a National Teachers Corps. The Bilingual Education Act (1968) helped local school districts address the English-language needs of
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To my question asking what the bilingual students’ strengths are‚ Melissa answered that she appreciates the diversity that her “ELLs(English language learners)” bring into the classroom including different experiences in their home countries and different background knowledge as the strengths that the students have. She said that the ELL’s mainstream English-speaking peers are very curious on their ELL peers and love to hear about their countries and why they are here. On the other hand‚ what Melissa
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opportunity to interview Ms. Maria‚ a third-grade bilingual teacher with a little over ten years of experience‚ and the mother of my classmate. Ms. Maria just like her students has English as her second language but began her journey at the age of seventeen. This experience allows her to be more compassionate and understanding with her students’ situations as she went through the same thing but at a later age. I personally have never been enrolled in a bilingual class so this interview was insightful to
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that is not strange. We can become so focused on just getting by with good grades in school we can forget what an amazing opportunity we have‚ and when we can access to each other’s minds the possibilities are endless. I definitely agree with Luis Rodriguez. I notice myself leaving behind the spark of learning just to complete a task and move on to the next. I may even change my answer on a test because I think that is what the teacher wants to hear but is not what I think. I see this in others as well
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one another. In today’s society it seems that knowing multiple languages is almost a necessity. The United States is largely monolingual. Only about 15-20% of Americans consider themselves bilingual‚ compared to 56 percent of Europeans surveyed in 2006 by the European Commission.The advantages of being bilingual is practically never ending if you think about it. We live in a multilingual universe. This universe depends on being able to find and build the bonds and bridges that connect us across our
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