Bilingual Education Research Paper

Another benefit that bilingual education is that native students are able to have in contact with another culture and it also helps to ELL student maintains their culture. One of the reason why maintaining culture, especially for immigrant families because the first generation are from another language, so they don’t really speak English. On the other hand, second generation is more fluent in English because they had their education in America. While they are being taught English, at the same time some of them neglect their native language. They may be fully involved in the American society, but the cost to become fully American is quiet significant. For instance, it is basically tuning away from their origins and a form of connection between family, such as identity, relationship, and traditions (Duessen 1). Culture is one of the …show more content…
He said, “I’ve had tearful conversation with [parents who are saying, “I’m losing the ability to communicate with my child, what do I do?” Then, “That’s kind of a hard thing to address. There are a lot of social pressures involves in that none of us can really control,” said Cornish (Huerta 2). Even a professional like Nate Cornish has a hard time solving this kind of problem once it is created. It shows how frightening it could be when the language becomes a barrier rather than a tool to unite people. An emphasis on a culture is what keeps on culture is what keeps family together. Maintaining and knowing another culture is not only beneficial to ELL students. According to Fauve Johnson, “Bilingual children have the advantage of knowing two culture, being able to communicate with a wider variety of people, and taking advantage of possible economic advantages on their future” (Johnson