Bilingual education

Richard Rodriguez, in “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood,” demonstrates how a child should be taught in school when he/she is a non-English speaker and the changes Non-English speaking families face when they move to the United States: by describing his school experiences, by describing his beliefs in bilingual education and by describing how his relationship with his family changed. Firstly, one example of Richard Rodriguez school experience was when he first recognized the…

Texas Education Agency. “Texas Academic Performance Report.” Division of Performance Reporting. Aug. 2013. Web. 30 September 2015. This is a data set, made by the Texas Education Agency that shows various statistics of the academic success of schools in Texas. The Texas Education Agency measures success through graduation and dropout rates.The data set includes statistics for all Texas students in general while also breaking these statistics down into subpopulations at a state level.…

Scholarship and The Rodolfo Jacobson Scholarship Itzel Esquivel Bilingual. That is what I like to consider myself. Growing up I didn’t necessarily have the best bilingual education experience but I did not let that stop me from pursuing my education to become at bilingual educator. I have seen that with the right people and the right tools in the classroom, bilingual education can go a far way. I have seen that being bilingual education has its many benefits that help students be more confident…

Globalization, and Education November 27, 2016 Educational Improvements for Immigrant Students The composition of American public schools has evolved, and the education system is struggling to accommodate the diversity of the student population. Immigrant students face barriers that prevent them from receiving the same quality of education as native English speakers. There are many ways in which schools could break down these barriers and provide an equally excellent education to all students.…

Cognitive skill is one of the great outcomes of bilingual education. When being bilingual, the brain is naturally translating everything into the languages spoken. “Researchers have shown that the bilingual brain can have better attention and task-switching capacities than the monolingual brain, thanks to its developed ability to inhibit one language while using another” (Marian and Shook, 2012). The brain is constantly alternating back and forth between languages. This also led to children…

of instruction. According to Baker (2006; cited by: Pacific Policy Research Center, 2010), there are three major levels of language immersion education divided according to age: • early immersion, from age 5 or 6, • middle immersion, from age 9 or 10, and • late immersion, from ages 11 and 14. In programs that make use of immersion language education, learners may enter and commence studies at different ages and different levels. Research (cited by: Pacific Policy Research Center, 2010)…

Over the past few decades, researchers have agreed that different types of human experiences and capabilities, such as being bilingual, can alter the structure and function of the brain over time. However, there has been a lack of research concerning other aspects of bilingualism. This has created the impression that the effects of bilingualism are well understood and very specific, when in reality, bilingualism causes profound changes to the way in which the brain functions and scientists have…

immersions programs are claimed to raise performance and result in higher test scores. For example, Ken Noonan, a superintendent of schools in Oceanside, California, and founder of the California Association of Bilingual Educators (CABE), which for years actively campaigned for bilingual education, he states “After one year of implementing English immersion, the district achieved amazing results in English-administered state tests. Specifically, Spanish-speaking students achieved dramatic…

practices. Different terms are used when in the evaluation of ELLs in educational settings. Additional terms utilized when conducting assessments of ELLs include bilingual assessment or nondiscriminatory assessment. Although the term bilingual assessment may suggest that the student has mastered both languages and is, in fact, bilingual, in practice the term generally refers to a student who speaks a native language other than English. It is understood that this other language may have a…

interest in learning foreign languages as a way to communicate with different people around the world. Consequently, the amount of bilingual people has been increasing. The UNESCO (2005) estimates that approximately half of the world population is bilingual and fairly does not exist any country in which the bilingualism is not evidenced. On the other hand, people who are bilingual possess higher malleability and flexibility than the monolingual people (UNESCO, 2005). Macnamara (1967) states…