;.c . rJJ; L. Erlbkrm ‚ /c/ic. - I0 I The Relationship Between Degree of Bilingualism and Cognitive Ability: A Critical Discussion and Some New Longitudinal Data 320 HAKUTA AND DIAZ ! Kenji Hakuta Yale University ! I Rafael M. Diaz University of N e w Mexlco II I ate bilingual saniples to a n extent such that the prototype of subsequent studies o n bilingualism became group comparisons of balanced bilinguals 10 monolingual counterparts matched o n appropriate
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An Argumentation on the Bilingual education and English-only Movement The question of whether the U.S should have an official language and whether bilingual language education can be accepted is highly controversial. Hispanic concentrated areas like California‚ the Southwest and Florida are especially troubled by the proposed English-only movements. People stands for English-only movement claims that linguistic divisions is harmful to political unity‚ while single official language can provide
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Heritage Language Maintenance Breanna Miller Hamline University Submitted to: Professor Kathryn Heinze ESL 7660: Second Language Acquisition Fall 2010 Introduction What affects heritage language maintenance and what are some approaches to maintain heritage language? This paper will discuss the properties of heritage language maintenance and will describe what can be done to preserve a learner’s home language. All second language learners
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CONTENTS 1.Abstract: 2 2. Introduction: 2 3. Findings: 2 3.1 Brain development 2 3.2 Social advantages 3 3.3 High tuition fees 4 4. Conclusion: 4 5.0 Recommendations: 4 5.0.1 Let more people know bilingual kindergarten 4 5.0.2 Policy support 5 5.0.3 Funding 5 References: 5 1. Abstract: Bilingual kindergarten is a new way for the parents to choose for their children. Even the bilingual kindergarten is not known by most of the parents‚ more and more people are getting more
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Professional Article Review ESL-433N 15 Jan 2014 Professional Article Review Bilingual education is a rapidly growing issue for educators all across the United States and dates back farther than many might assume. The impact of bilingual education quite possibly dates back to the early settlers in North America in 1664. It was said that at least eighteen different languages were spoken during the time of the 17th century in addition to the many Native American languages
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INTRODUCTION This report presents an interview with a bilingual called H.D . H.D. is a daughter of a Turkish immigrant family who lived in Australia for 12 years .H.D. gives examples from her personal life about how she became bilingual background ‚ the challenges of second language acquisition ‚ benefits and the role of languages in her life. H.D was asked the following questions : (a) Could you please explain how you became bilingual? (b) Could you describe the bilingual environment you
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Movements for bilingual education rose in 1974 with the Equal Education Opportunity Act and Bingual Education Act‚ which ordered federally funded schools to meet special educational needs for students not proficient in English. Unfortunately‚ dropout rates and lack of English-language proficiency alarmed the states that these bilingual programs were not efficent. Because of this‚ arguments between English-only advocates and supporters of bilingual educations emerged. Articles such as the New York
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Language Identity Are the people who become fluent in a second or third language at risk of losing their own identity? Language has been a way of communicating with each other for thousands of years‚ maybe even more. Since the day we were born we started to learn to speak the language of our fatherland and we’re all still learning. I don’t believe that you can necessarily lose your identity because you speak two or three languages. Identity is a very big word to use and is influenced by many
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This article focuses English-only policies that are imposed in the workplace and the effects/possible effects that it has on employees whose first language is not English. While many companies are aware that they need to be "multilingual friendly" from a customer services standpoint and will hire bilingual and multilingual employees to accommodate non-English speakers’ needs; they also impose rules that do not allow multilingual speakers to speak anything but English in the workplace‚ even within
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Richard Rodriguez and Amy Tan are two bilingual writers. Rodriguez comes from a Latin background where both his parents speak Spanish. Tan is a child of Chinese parents. Though they share some of the same situations; each has a different way of portraying it. This gives the readers two different aspects of being bilingual. Rodriguez told his story in Aria: a Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood. Tan told hers in Mother Tongue. In spite of the fact that they both wrote about their experiences of being
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