Before talking about the arguments for and against the bilingual education, it is essential to define this notion. Bilingual education is often mixed with bilingualism, but those notion are slighty different. The bilingualism is to characterize someone who “has the minimum ability to complete fluency in more than one language” (Hornby, 1977), whereas the bilingual education is “the use of two languages as a media of instruction for a child or a group of children in part or all of the school curriculum” (Cohen, 1975).
Thus, bilingual education is taught mainly through school, unlike bilingualism which can be acquired thanks to two parents who gives two different native language to their child.
Arguments in favor of bilingual education. …show more content…
Methods that seem effective. The more the culture feels comfortable, the more the second language will be dominant and proficient, thus it is essential to make the children feel comfortable with the culture in order to help them develop their second language skills.
In order to do that, it is important to teach a second language at school at a very young age, indeed, the younger the child is, the more naturally he will speaks the language, according to the critical period of acquisition (Denham & Lobeck, 2013, p.43). Teaching a second language at a very young age imply that the methods must be adapted to this young public, consequently, the teaching won’t be done through essays and lectures, but through the teaching of songs, games and story time, as Goodman said in 1982 “we learn to read by reading”. Remaining the idea of making it easier for the children, the teaching of the second language should be done with the same method as the teaching of the native …show more content…
This training is onerous, and the more the country is poor, the less the politics will prioritize the bilingual education.
Moreover, for some, teaching and learning a second language has a bad social value, the government and politics will avoid the opening on other cultures, and prioritize the acculturation of their native language because of the attachment people can have with their country, and the fear that the heritage would disappear through the assimilation of another country.
An example is summarize the ineffective experience of the bilingualism education, in San Francisco, in the 1970’s, thousands of children who had a foreign language as their native language were assigned to bilingual classes, but the important number of children made things harder, and instead of being put in a class according to child’s need, the repartition was made along with the availability of the teachers, and the disponilility of the class. Thus, Chinese american children who needed english class could end up in a Spanish class instead. Some organization explains that this experiment was totally mindless and was more used as a “dumping ground for educationally disadvantage students”. (Thomas Sowell
Thus, bilingual education is taught mainly through school, unlike bilingualism which can be acquired thanks to two parents who gives two different native language to their child.
Arguments in favor of bilingual education. …show more content…
Methods that seem effective. The more the culture feels comfortable, the more the second language will be dominant and proficient, thus it is essential to make the children feel comfortable with the culture in order to help them develop their second language skills.
In order to do that, it is important to teach a second language at school at a very young age, indeed, the younger the child is, the more naturally he will speaks the language, according to the critical period of acquisition (Denham & Lobeck, 2013, p.43). Teaching a second language at a very young age imply that the methods must be adapted to this young public, consequently, the teaching won’t be done through essays and lectures, but through the teaching of songs, games and story time, as Goodman said in 1982 “we learn to read by reading”. Remaining the idea of making it easier for the children, the teaching of the second language should be done with the same method as the teaching of the native …show more content…
This training is onerous, and the more the country is poor, the less the politics will prioritize the bilingual education.
Moreover, for some, teaching and learning a second language has a bad social value, the government and politics will avoid the opening on other cultures, and prioritize the acculturation of their native language because of the attachment people can have with their country, and the fear that the heritage would disappear through the assimilation of another country.
An example is summarize the ineffective experience of the bilingualism education, in San Francisco, in the 1970’s, thousands of children who had a foreign language as their native language were assigned to bilingual classes, but the important number of children made things harder, and instead of being put in a class according to child’s need, the repartition was made along with the availability of the teachers, and the disponilility of the class. Thus, Chinese american children who needed english class could end up in a Spanish class instead. Some organization explains that this experiment was totally mindless and was more used as a “dumping ground for educationally disadvantage students”. (Thomas Sowell