Bilingual education

Most of the empirical research confirms that most children learn best in their first language as a basis for bilingual and multilingual education. Studies indicate that six to eight years of education is necessary for the development of literacy and verbal proficiency required for secondary school academic achievement. Empirical evidence suggests that the ability of a child to learn a second language does not suffer if the primary language used for instruction in the entire primary school is the…

Introduction Prior to the Bilingual Education Acts Prior to the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, the U.S. government had a change in attitude towards bilingualism and bilingual educations. At times, there was this permissive attitude that allowed teaching through the mother tongue acceptable. As long as it was within the jurisdiction of local towns and districts, schools were allowed to teach in the child’s native language. However, there were times in which higher authorities were strongly…

different you are viewed from classmates as stupid since you go to bilingual classes; Finally you get out of bilingual classes and you feel intelligent and accomplished but now your Spanish starts fading away not on purpose but because your main language is English. Richard Rodriguez’s book Hunger of Memory depicts his own childhood being of Hispanic decent and details his educational experiences. Rodriguez states that his success in education is due to his parents. The reasons…

I was bilingual. For the longest time, my world was divided in two categories: English and French. French was for home, and English was for school. French was for family, and English was for friends. French was for the news, and English was for comic books. Up until I was 15 years old, these two literacies made up my entire life. But neither of those literacies affected me in the same way that my third language did. At 15 years old, I became obsessed with the Japanese language. I remember…

When I got married I moved to the United States, and I knew zero English. I was a teacher after graduating from school in Mexico, and I wanted to teach in the United States. I got a bilingual teaching assistant job in Idaho Falls, and this experience allowed me to become familiar with teaching in this country. My second experience was in Alaska where I taught with a temporary 1-year certificate. During this time, I had to pass a required test to get certified. I failed this test five times, and…

After my time in CI 280, I learned copious amounts of vital information regarding English Language Learners (ELL) and their education. There were many important take-aways from the class, such as the importance of giving emergent bilingual students the best education possible. If I could remember anything from this class in three years from now it would be these following things. First, I would want to remember to understand the culture all of students in my class in order to relate to them on a…

believe that it should be a high priority for children’s education because, it prepares each individual for their future education. In the article of The importance of bilingual education states, “many argue bilingual education works, [whereas] many others argue it does not work. It is highly political because, in some states, like California, Arizona and Massachusetts, English-only initiatives have been passed and, as a consequence, their bilingual programs have been dismantled” (Importance).…

Black president, before we created laws against smoking. Our world has changed in ways that would have been unfathomable in 1998. And so have our education systems. Studies have been conducted, tests have been analyzed, and we were wrong. Proposition 227 was never the best answer for our students. Why would we not change our stance on bilingual education to keep up with the evolution of our world and our students? - In an interview for KQED Radio, Adolfo…

It was intended to help children overcome developmental disadvantages. Head Start was a historically new approach to addressing inequality in education. Compensatory is a term that was used to describe programs to help the poor. Critics say it implies that clients of the programs were somehow deficient and deviant. Culturally deprived is a term that is also objected. It is used to describe poor…

This quarter, we learned to critically think about education as a social institution. Throughout the course, we focused on the framework of education with the concepts of culture and language. My further understanding of student achievement and the factors that affect the outcomes of U.S. public schools has expanded immensely. After gathering research from the course authors, students were able to assess their knowledge through the video assignment. The video assignment allowed us to convey our…