Second Language Analysis

Many parents face difficulties teaching their children a second language in the same time of learning their native language. Parents who are not proficient in the second language, which is used in their children schools, believe that they cannot contribute in helping their children learning it. However, parent-implement and literacy intervention can help children learn both languages and that have been verified by few studies.
In her article, “Effectiveness of a Parent-Implemented Language and Literacy Intervention in the Home Language,” Elizabeth Ijalba(2015) attempts to discover whether parents’intervention assists in solving children language acquisition problems and how literacy home language is effective in acquiring second language. …show more content…
The author argues that the second language which schools use can be a barrier and obstacle to improve the literacy of the native language. In addition, the author refutes the traditional expectation that using the home language will make it difficult for parents who cannot speak the second language (English) to communicate and help their children in studying. The author successfully explains her opinion by mentioning how the study she conducted helped in improving both …show more content…
She clarifies in her article that children with language impairment tend to have literacy delay and problems by using credible citations to support her claims. The argument would bemore convincing to readers if I had showed that there are no conflict between learning the second language in the school and learning the first language in home. On the other hand, the article’s primary weaknesses are that the author did not provide detailed information of the materials used in the meetings of the intervention. Also, it would have been more valid if the author had used larger sample size. The period of the literacy intervention is insufficient to show language progress in two different