Pros of Bilingual Education
More than one hundred thousand child immigrants are assumed to arrive in America by next year, however restraints on bilingual education makes it harder for children to adjust within schools. Obviously school is important because young children start school at the age of four or five and learn basic math, reading, and comprehension skills. These skills pave the way for higher education classes like calculus, critical reading, and writing. A problem people believe that dual language education has is that the native language is lost as the child learns english and thus they are against the program. However, bilingual education is as important as special needs education because it allows english language learners to …show more content…
Jeffrey Nelson, an author and someone who is bilingual, has defened bilingual education because of their benefits. Mr.Nelson learned how to speak spanish because his girlfriend at the time, now wife, was about to have a child and struggled about how to raise his child bilingually so he wrote a blog for other parents struggling with the same problem. On his blog he has written,” Someone who is bilingual has an easier time learning a third, and subsequent, languages. It promotes brain growth in the area responsible for spatial navigation and learning new material,” (Nelson). The brain is a complicated organ and can easily be manipulated, by being bilingual the brain can function better than monolingual brains because of the strength the brain has. Dual language brains have an increased concentration and focus level, meaning that the brain can be hardwired to function better at tasks. Jim Cummins, of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, has written,”when the first language is not well developed, then the academic and linguistic performance in the second language is degraded,” (Cummins). Mr.Cummins has a good point, how is one supposed to excel in a language while this individual's other language is weak. This ideology can be applied to school subjects for example; in order to take a physics class one must be proficient in Algebra II , however one may take the chemistry class if they are taking the Algebra II class alongside it. The comprehension of the native language one may speak can be compared to the foundation of a building, without that understanding of the language the rest of the building- the math, reading/writing, and science values- can crumble and be worth nothing. Mr.Cummins ideals are similar to Stephen Krashen, a researcher for the Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education), who has written an article
More than one hundred thousand child immigrants are assumed to arrive in America by next year, however restraints on bilingual education makes it harder for children to adjust within schools. Obviously school is important because young children start school at the age of four or five and learn basic math, reading, and comprehension skills. These skills pave the way for higher education classes like calculus, critical reading, and writing. A problem people believe that dual language education has is that the native language is lost as the child learns english and thus they are against the program. However, bilingual education is as important as special needs education because it allows english language learners to …show more content…
Jeffrey Nelson, an author and someone who is bilingual, has defened bilingual education because of their benefits. Mr.Nelson learned how to speak spanish because his girlfriend at the time, now wife, was about to have a child and struggled about how to raise his child bilingually so he wrote a blog for other parents struggling with the same problem. On his blog he has written,” Someone who is bilingual has an easier time learning a third, and subsequent, languages. It promotes brain growth in the area responsible for spatial navigation and learning new material,” (Nelson). The brain is a complicated organ and can easily be manipulated, by being bilingual the brain can function better than monolingual brains because of the strength the brain has. Dual language brains have an increased concentration and focus level, meaning that the brain can be hardwired to function better at tasks. Jim Cummins, of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, has written,”when the first language is not well developed, then the academic and linguistic performance in the second language is degraded,” (Cummins). Mr.Cummins has a good point, how is one supposed to excel in a language while this individual's other language is weak. This ideology can be applied to school subjects for example; in order to take a physics class one must be proficient in Algebra II , however one may take the chemistry class if they are taking the Algebra II class alongside it. The comprehension of the native language one may speak can be compared to the foundation of a building, without that understanding of the language the rest of the building- the math, reading/writing, and science values- can crumble and be worth nothing. Mr.Cummins ideals are similar to Stephen Krashen, a researcher for the Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education), who has written an article