“An additive bilingual situation is where the addition of a second language and culture is unlikely to replace or displace the first language and culture” (Baker, 2001, pg. 58). Additive bilingual programs purpose is to educate the child …show more content…
This may be by visuals, manipulatives, or repetition. The teacher can provide multiple ways to teach the students a lesson. Some resources the teacher would be using clues from the reading, self-testing, and making visuals from what they have read. The child may also summarize the whole story or summarize by paragraph. At the end of the day the child will use their cognitive strategy for them to understand the lesson.
Meta-cognitive strategies are methods to help the student understand how they are learning. They are provided with problem solving questions which help them think cognitively, and think outside the box. The students are also provided with real world problems so they can cognitively use their minds. Giving the students these type of problems is helping them for the real world because when they grow up they would be encountered with situations that they would need to think critically.
Socio-emotional support is a way of molding the student into doing something by repetition by experience and emotions. The student needs to know how to establish a relationship with other students, so when they are adults they would be able to build associations. Having this skill would benefit them in every association when they are …show more content…
One way the teacher can show that they appreciate their culture is celebrating it by month. They can have a month to present their culture to the classroom, and they can bring supplies to show the students. The teacher can also provide them with facts, videos, games, and movies from their culture so the other students can learn more from where they are from.
The students first language will be supported for a minimum of five years through their academic years. Students need one to three years to acquire the social language. If we allow the students to learn in their first language for five years, by then they would have already acquired the second language socially and academically. By forcing the student to learn the second language within a year they would not learn because they are not emotionally there. Allowing them to learn within five years would help them learn the second language better.
In conclusion, there are programs like the two-way and one-way immersion to help students in becoming bilingual and biliterate. We need to know the translanguaging, comprehensible input, affective, cognitive, and meta-cognitive strategies from the student. We must also validate the student’s culture and support their language for a minimum of 5 years. By knowing this we will be successful in guiding the student in becoming bilingual and