Bilingual education

These observations range from mere observing students to being a tutor with bilingual students. Each class would have 15 observation hours to undergo dealing with elementary through high school education giving me an understanding of the needs for level of education whether it be academically or environmentally structured. There’s an academic structural need in the teaching field whether it’s the certified teacher; bilingual teacher; primary, secondary, Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) and…

and delay is just a misunderstanding. Research has shown that bilingual and multilingual students display far more cognitive advantages than monolingual students, once the child’s mind is well developed.(Brisk,1998). I believe that bilingual education is good for students, especially if it’s started when they are young. In the lecture slides, we discussed that younger children learn languages more easily than adults. Bilingual education can also help sharpen the minds of the students and…

The class has 26 students in which 19 of them are bilingual and most are learning English as a Second Language. I noticed the same reaction as Di Giallonardo had with his students. I would add that some students that I was tutoring would make an error in pronunciation and instead of shying away, they would…

some special programs where they learn the official language of the country with the help of specialised teachers; so they do not learn in their 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…

However, what cultural diversity means can differ. For example, single parent families versus two parent families or low income families versus privileged families. Families that speak one language versus families that are bilingual. Also there is variation in religious practices for different cultures. Because there are so many cultures, there are just as many ways of handling life’s problems. You can imagine how this easily creates challenges when trying to bridge the cultural…

This gives bilinguals an edge over monolinguals. From "Speaking in Tongues" Li-Chi Wang stated at the San Francisco Board of Education, "We now know that children acquire 2nd or 3rd language more effectively at an early age, and most importantly their knowledge of a second language also stimulates and enhances their learning of other subjects as well." Many parents are concerned learning another language will compromise their ability to learn and speak English. In reality, being bilingual…

3.c.1 Select, adapt, and use culturally responsive, age‐ appropriate, and linguistically accessible materials. This artifact is documentation of a lesson taught during my two-week internship in Alabaster City Schools. The internship was with an ESL Summer Camp, pertaining to third-grade students. The focus of this ESL Summer Camp for third grade was architecture around the world geometry in buildings, drawing shapes with tools such as (protractors, rulers, compass) Construction, design,…

Griselda indicated that her bilingual peers provided her support learning and practicing English. Anytime she needed to tell something to the teachers she would ask her friends and they would translate it for her. Griselda would then write it down and memorize it. Griselda’s friends…

it creates awareness in the Latino Culture. It is important for bilingual education because students can learn from both languages. By teaching children authors from this genre, we can better explain how the Latino culture is growing and how it makes up society. When we read to children from Latino Authors we can show children that their lives and related experiences matters. In the book, Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children: Their Words, Their World it states, “The intended…

In response to a question on bilingualism, Barack Obama said “You should be thinking about how can your child become bilingual. We should have every child speaking more than one language.” Bilingualism, the use of two languages, is on the rise in the United States, with two most commonly spoken languages being Spanish and English. Amidst many different cultures in the U.S., more than one language is taught to children and thus the practice of code switching is known. Code switching is the…