The purpose of this digest is to help pediatricians‚ speech language pathologists‚ classroom teachers‚ and other professionals who work with bilingual children and their parents understand common parental concerns related to bilingual childrearing and become familiar with the current science on bilingual child development. Greater insight into both issues will allow these professionals to provide more effective and scientifically sound advice to parents. A growing number of U.S. parents view bilingualism
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Have you ever wondered what is so special about being bilingual? Bilingualism is when a person knows more than one language. There are thousands of bilinguals who do not know the value of their importance and their advantage. Bilingualism can change people’s lives because they have many cognitive and economic benefits. Bilingualism has an extreme effect on the brain. Being bilingual has a positive effect on the brain’s executive control system‚ its responsibilities are high-level thinking‚ attention
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The author Anna Wierzbicka is right about the fact that bilingualism has a major influence on one person’s emotions or thoughts because every specific language has its own lexical and cultural script in order to provide emotions and feelings. Consequently‚ that leads to an alteration of the conceptual representation of emotion‚ therefore bilingual individuals are mostly tempted to express different emotions based on the language they are speaking at the time. Moreover‚they have to adopt different
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behave in a manner that is acceptable to the public. Expectations can be seen as something that is suppose to happen. As well as societal expectations‚ which are unclear‚ and unwritten standards‚ followed by people in a specific environment. They differ for every individual depending on their environment‚ and culture. One would assume the individual would conform to their societal expectations‚ but that’s not the case. Instead the individual performance reflects the way they are treated by those around
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The factors that lead to the "collapse" of civilizations are almost directly related to those that created it. Archaeologists characterize collapse by a number of elements‚ some of which we have evidence for‚ others we do not. Most archaeologists are unsure of exactly what caused the decline of most civilizations in the ancient world‚ yet there are many clues to some of the events that could have contributed. The collapse of the ancient Roman Empire‚ the Mesoamerican Mayan‚ and the Egyptian cultures
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Web Images Maps News Translate Books Gmail more ▼ Help | Sign in Translate too easy to believe the other. For example‚ if they felt their friends closer and more understand‚ they can easily be in accordance with what is done by friends. They forget that the "friends sometimes can not eat friends." In this situation many young adults fall into the social ills. Influence of Mass Media The mass media also contribute to the occurrence of social problems among young adults today. Not everything
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Civilization vs. Savagery The idea of civilization vs. Savagery is displayed in Lord of the flies as good vs. evil where civilization is good and savagery is evil. This idea is one that exists in all human beings: It is the instinct to follow and live by rules‚ act peacefully and follow moral commands against the desire for violence‚ to gratify ones immediate desires and reign supreme over others. Throughout the novel‚ the conflict is dramatized by the clash between Ralph and Jack‚ who respectively
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John Cheever’s story "The Swimmer" depicts a protagonist ‚ and the society that has nurtured him‚ as lacking in seriousness and responsibility. Neddy‚ the bewildered protagonist‚ represents a society satirized for centering its values on social status and materialism. During the course of Neddy’s journey‚ the illusions he has constructed about his life are stripped away‚ and in the process the truth behind his society is realized. In unveiling the tragedy of Neddy’s existence‚ Cheever reveals the
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Joel Dejesus Societal Standards Essay Speech and Composition 6th Period Mr. Fields April 7‚2013 Imagine a 6’2" man with broad shoulders‚ deep voice‚ hairy body‚ masculine personality‚ and pink glittery nail polish. His friends give him a hard time about it‚ they say that he is not " a real man". He decides to hang out with more woman and when more and more people start to consider him gay‚ he becomes it. Men do not have the wiggle room to explore the feminine stereotypes.
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not a random phenomenon. As attested by Li Wei (1998‚ p. 156)‚ Sociolinguistics who have studied code switching draw attention to extra-linguistic factors such as topic‚ setting‚ relationships between participants‚ community norms and values‚ and societal‚ political and ideological developments influencing speakers’ choice of language in conversation. In the classroom setting‚ teachers at times connect the previous lesson by putting the students at ease in the classroom setting where they speak in
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