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    being able to use English for communicative and academic purposes, being able to read academic texts in Italian and understanding general conversations in such language, being able to understand general ideas from conversations in French; makes me multilingual. It is clear I am not able to use any of those languages with the same level of proficiency as I use my first language, Spanish. Speakers very seldom use two different languages for the same purposes. For example, most of my academic…

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    Education: 1. With the highly changing demographics of the American public school system, is it fair to expect the education of multilingual districts, to face the expenses that require highly qualified bilingual teachers? What if your community has several minorities groups, with uniquely different languages? Would each classroom be required to maintain 3 or more professional educators, to fulfill the language barriers that exist? Most communities say yes! For thousands of years, bilingual…

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    Throughout time, there has been much debate about the authorship of William Shakespeare’s theatrical pieces. Many theories have been developed over time, all crediting various individuals with the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, but none have been truly accepted as the outright truth as there are “more than 5,000 books on the Shakespeare authorship question with more than 50 possible candidates.” (PDF from oxford) To thoroughly formulate a coherent argument towards discrediting Shakespeare…

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    Every culture is different in their ways, not only do people with different cultural backgrounds speak different languages, but their styles of using languages are also different as they possess diverse values and beliefs. Modern society’s transnational flows of people will force us to confront these differences in the context ranging from language, arts, education,etc. The novel “Looking for Alibrandi” by Australian author Melina Marchetta published in 1992 has identified and addressed a set of…

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    the United States. Fallows supports his thesis with two main points. First, he claims that English is no such thing as a polygamy, but, a situation such as having two children. This argument is sustained by three cases: Scandinavians and Swiss' multilingual…

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    Multilingual Americans earn more than monolingual Americans and can compete better in the workforce. If applying at an American business and the applicant speaks more than one language, they already have a leg up on all their competition. Due to the fact that…

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    gathered donations and funds for the Corvallis Multicultural Center and the 4-H Foundation, and we have shared the importance of culture with others. Having cultural pride leads me to attain the brightest future for myself. The fact that I am multilingual and speak Spanish, English, and some French has truly impacted my plans for the future. I have learned about the importance of assisting others and placing a grin on another person’s face, which is my primary motive for becoming a family…

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    Example Of Code Switching

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    element in that particular conversation actually changed. That element is called code-switching. If you're not familiar with the term code-switching, this refers to switching between languages or registers while speaking or signing. Bilingual and multilingual individuals do it all the time and reasons vary. For the sake of brevity, this article only touches on two reasons why we code-switch and these are (1) We do it to accommodate others, or (2) We do it to converse with someone who…

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    many instructional toys and tv episodes that were available to me. Those lessons slowly adapted my communication from random babbling to words and sentences. I am thankful for these simple things she did for me as these things have led me to be multilingual. She also provides me with delicious food…

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    mother until she was twelve and then moved to America to live with her Canadian/American father. During this interview, I learned many things about Anna’s culture, there are aspects that point to the stigmas that come along with growing up two a multilingual household, the focus of this interview was linguistic stigmas, prestige differences, and linguistic identities. There seemed to be a lot of stigma surrounding language in both households Anna grew up in. At one point in the interview, Anna…

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