Second Class Citizens Essay

Heart is a two-story brick and stone structure located at 813 Baugh Avenue in East St. Louis. There are five classrooms on the first floor as there are two grades of students taught by one teacher. While one class is being taught the other is working on their assignments. On the second floor of the school, there is a spacious hall. In addition, the basement is used for society and club meetings. Mass usually starts the day at 8:00, but the actual school day begins at 9:10 and ends at 3:30.…

Any honest scale will tell you that the costs of foreign language instruction dwarf the benefits. Think about it: Even ignoring teachers' salaries, we're currently burning two years of class time per graduate. The payoff? Making less than one student in a hundred fluent. He goes on to say: the world usually has what economists call "diminishing returns": you can improve outcomes by spending more money, but the more you spend, the less…

5). Children move through the stages of learning a language at different rate whether they are learning one language or more than one language. I was enlightened by finding how important it is to support a DLL in their own language as the learn a second language. It is worthy to note that, Collier said, as cited in Nemeth (2009), in the Meeting the Meeting the Home Language Mandate article, that it could take eight years or longer for children to reach fluency. (p. 37) It is equally worthy to…

corporations, the construction of international organizations, and the strengthening of international relations. One contributing factor, that is often marginalized by politicians and citizens alike, is the growing demand for learning foreign languages. More and more people around the world have been taking second, third language classes for multiple purposes, especially professional advancement. Being multilingual has become so essential that many countries such as France and Switzerland, have…

mother tongue. Is this methodology the most apropiate one? As I see it, Spain provides an appropiate education for this students for many reasons: first of all, they are integrated in the rest of the class, so children are more open-minded with other cultures and religions; in addition, the learn a second language through social interacction, in real situations. Furthemore, this methodology has not any negative consequence in their mother tongue because according with the information found in…

point, the political thoughts and ideas today in the United States seem similar to the Tao-te Jing. However, the freedom today in the United States is not totally free; the freedom is still bound by the laws, whereas long as you are a law abiding citizen, your freedoms will not be taken away. However, in Tao-te Jing, in Lao-Tzu’s idealistic thought, the government should give people total 100% freedom. He neglected the negative impact of unlimited freedom and overlooked the quality of people.…

global status, a language needs to fulfil two requirements. First it should receive due official recognition in the international community. Second it needs an expanding number of non-native users.…

History and Summary of Current Situation Realizing that a lot of countries around the world open their doors for globalization to grow their economy and languages become more important to communicate between individuals, Rosetta Stone wants to help people to learn languages quickly and effectively. According to The Nielsen Company in the textbook, they find out that “the language-learning industry produced over US 83 billion in consumer spending.” The founder, Allen Stoltzfus, used his own…

It has grown over 60 percent in the last decade and 10 percent of all students nationwide represent ESL students. 1 out of 10 public school with ESL students in the United States are still learning to speak English. The majority of ESL students are second generation immigrants born in the United State, who do not speak English at home (Quintero,2017).There…

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…