“ Despite some positive developments, overall foreign language instruction has decreased over the last decade and the achievement gap has widened” (Pufah and Rhodes, 2011, p 258). The efforts shown to improve language instruction in schools districts in the United States couldn’t beat the lack of funding to world language programs. The funding decrease can be observed on the type of learning tools world language teachers use daily to instruct students. According to Wallis and Steptoe (2006), school students are using textbooks that are out of date the moment they are used in classrooms. Some schools do not have sufficient funds to buy new textbooks once a new edition appears on the market. Teachers and students have to use the textbooks for
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The communication using different world language benefits business, education, research, technology, medicine and tourism, consequently benefits the economy. “Today’s economy demands not only a high-level competence in the traditional academic disciplines but also what might may be called 21st century skills…kids are global citizens now” (Wallis and Steptoe, 2006, p 2). It is obvious that citizens should possess excellent math, science, language-arts, and social science skills. On top of previous skills, today’s economy also challenges citizens to be exposed to other cultures and be able to talk and understand different languages to be part of the new global economy. “Minority languages and minority language speaking populations are present in countries all over the world” (Valdez, 2014, p 321). The instruction of world language or using world language as communication tool is a need in all schools in the world because economy moves business around the world and therefore moves …show more content…
The United States, as well as other countries, is in a constant technological, engineering, and scientific competition where the communication with their abroad partners is a need. The need to teach world languages to our student population is not only an educators’ concern anymore. According to Pufah and Rhodes (2011) for many years, politicians, teachers, parents, employers, and researchers have been looking for an educational system capable to prepare USA students to become world citizens able to communicate in different languages. The tendency to increment world language learning opportunity for American students is increasing more lately. According to Valdez (2014) there is an important political increase support on teaching world languages. The conversation around supporting world language instruction is more notable now than before but there is still more to do. Not everyone thinks about the importance of teaching world language at all learning levels. “Policy makers, as well as educators, do not recognize the vital importance of the ability to communicate in languages other than English, nor do they realize the well established cognitive, social, and academic benefits of world language learning” (Pufah and Rhodes, 2011, p 272). Some sectors of politicians and educators do not have a clear picture that learning a world language
The communication using different world language benefits business, education, research, technology, medicine and tourism, consequently benefits the economy. “Today’s economy demands not only a high-level competence in the traditional academic disciplines but also what might may be called 21st century skills…kids are global citizens now” (Wallis and Steptoe, 2006, p 2). It is obvious that citizens should possess excellent math, science, language-arts, and social science skills. On top of previous skills, today’s economy also challenges citizens to be exposed to other cultures and be able to talk and understand different languages to be part of the new global economy. “Minority languages and minority language speaking populations are present in countries all over the world” (Valdez, 2014, p 321). The instruction of world language or using world language as communication tool is a need in all schools in the world because economy moves business around the world and therefore moves …show more content…
The United States, as well as other countries, is in a constant technological, engineering, and scientific competition where the communication with their abroad partners is a need. The need to teach world languages to our student population is not only an educators’ concern anymore. According to Pufah and Rhodes (2011) for many years, politicians, teachers, parents, employers, and researchers have been looking for an educational system capable to prepare USA students to become world citizens able to communicate in different languages. The tendency to increment world language learning opportunity for American students is increasing more lately. According to Valdez (2014) there is an important political increase support on teaching world languages. The conversation around supporting world language instruction is more notable now than before but there is still more to do. Not everyone thinks about the importance of teaching world language at all learning levels. “Policy makers, as well as educators, do not recognize the vital importance of the ability to communicate in languages other than English, nor do they realize the well established cognitive, social, and academic benefits of world language learning” (Pufah and Rhodes, 2011, p 272). Some sectors of politicians and educators do not have a clear picture that learning a world language