According the article by Olena Centeno a person who is bilingual is inclined to have an interest and immerse themselves into another culture. Olena Centeno also states that bilingualism experience tolerance for a different culture. Bilingualism can also boost one’s confidence with communicating with…
Bilingualism will connect to different parts of the world and respect the different cultures while becoming friends with more people who will respect you back. First, to Martin Espada bilingualism means more than just speaking one language, it means to have the right retain your own identity while also having the choice…
Without any doubt, I fully agree with Richard Rodriguez's say on this topic about bilingual education, because everything he says is true. Although assimilating to a new place can be hard, and have some negative effects in your life, in the end, the benefits that integrating into society can give a person, outrun the bad…
As a bilingual myself, I believe that being bilingual can be useful in various ways. Whenever I have traveled across the world (which is fairly often), I find myself able to communicate on some level with the locals, because I speak Spanish. I can often deduce what they are saying because there are similar roots in their language and mine. Locals also prefer that you attempt to speak their language rather than speaking English, and it greatly improves their attitude towards tourists when they try to speak their language. That’s why I believe that people should have bilingualism in their public lives.…
Rodriguez grew up in a Spanish speaking family thriving and eager to expand his education and vocabulary in the “loud, booming with confidence” English language. According to Rodriguez, bilingual educationists have strong disbelief in the idea that schools should be assimilated with bilingual education because the students lack “a degree of ‘individuality’” This sense of individuality is absent in public society because often your heritage sets you apart from most others around you.…
and are expected to learn in an English-only classroom. There has been controversy over whether or not bilingual education hinders students in their education. Like all journeys, this one undoubtedly has its ups and downs. Bilingual education encourages students to learn material that they are not familiar with in ways an English-only classroom cannot. Considering that students are unaccustomed to the English language, bilingual classrooms can make them feel more safe.…
My position on bilingualism is: I believe people should attempt to retain their culture and identity, but also should try to accept and learn the language of the area, but should not be shamed in the public place. The first example of my idea comes from Espadas essay, “The New Bathroom Policy at English High School.” Espada implies, “I have never met a single person who didn’t want to learn English. What they want to do is also retain their own language, culture, and identity. ”(164-168).…
Introduction Prior to the Bilingual Education Acts Prior to the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, the U.S. government had a change in attitude towards bilingualism and bilingual educations. At times, there was this permissive attitude that allowed teaching through the mother tongue acceptable. As long as it was within the jurisdiction of local towns and districts, schools were allowed to teach in the child’s native language. However, there were times in which higher authorities were strongly against languages other than the English. This hostile climate would culminate in the some of the nation’s most drastic changes in the public schools resulting in the reduction of any type of bilingual instruction offered by some states (Nieto, 2009).…
I have seen that being bilingual education has its many benefits that help students be more confident on who they are as a person and who they are culturally. Bilingualism is a huge part of a student’s identity especially if they have grown up in mixed cultures and knows other languages than English. As a future educator, I will strongly encourage students to express themselves and to have no shame on…
In a modern world like ours, it has become commonplace for people to know more than one language. Being bilingual is an incredible asset in Canada that incredibly increases your job prospects or chance of being hired right out of university. It benefits you in various ways, ranging from knowing the language to help communicate with others, to having a successful and well paying job. Science proves that learning another language also improves your multitasking skills and improves your memory.…
A lot of people do not understand that not everyone speaks English. Bilingualism means being able to communicate effortlessly in two languages. However, not only speaking, but reading and writing fluently as well. I am grateful to have been taught how to read and write in Spanish while attending church. I am also appreciative to have learned English at a very young age, because little did I know that it would become a big role in my life.…
As a kid I grew up around Spanish and English, being bilingual has helped a lot I life in communicating with family, friends and even strangers because being Hispanic most don’t know English or don’t like to speak English. English had become my first language then Spanish because of school. I grew up speaking Spanish at home but it was not fluent at first it was more English with a few Spanish words here and there, today that would be considered Spanglish but it wasn’t even that.…
Today, many immigrants come to the United States from different parts of the world, bringing wonderful cultures and traditions. Some people receive an education in their homelands, and come to the United States speaking some English, but others only speak their native tongue. In order to “make it” in America, it is important for immigrants to learn how to speak English. Why is it so important for immigrants to learn how to speak English in the United States? It is an advantage for immigrants to learn the language in the United States, it opens more opportunities for better-paying jobs, which will allow them to have a more prosperous life being able to provide for the family.…
Studies also shows learning another language does predict brain health in old age and improves certain mental functions because you have to control the two languages you know, While you communicate in one language, you 've got to manage and control the other language." Also According to why everyone should learn a second language(march 21, 2015) by Kayla Mattew, said that being bilingual can improves your hearing by force you brain to pay more attention to the surrounding around you and helps improve memory and eliminate some bias and making better decision. (greater attention focus ognitive performance on tests and had greater attention focus, distraction resistance, decision-making, judgment and responsiveness to feedback Language learning is described as a kind of re-wiring of the brain which can form new neurons and connections among the intellectual network. So adding another language to…
Studies concerning deficits or benefits of bilingualism have been researched for many years. Early studies from the 1920’s era, which had poor designs, caused people to believe that teaching children to be bilingual and or just being bilingual led to great cognitive deficits that were highly detrimental linguistically and cognitively (Hakuta et al., 1985). Later studies recognized the faults in the prior studies and attempted many different methods to try correct issues with methodology as well as maintain better balance with subjects that was lacking in the early research. Hakuta and Diaz (1985) pointed out many studies that showed that bilingual children focused more on semantic differences with words than how they sound as well as differences…