Bilingual education

Education is one of the most important aspect of our life, Cambridge University Press(2016) suggests the definition of education is the method of acquiring knowledge and distributing information, especially in study environment such as high school, university. For example, lecturer will distribute knowledge to the university students while having a lecture and other example will be tutor are having a tutorial with students that seek for help , both lecturers and tutors are distributing…

States at the age of five and was enrolled in the Bilingual program. Hannah was fluent in Swahili, with a year and a half of the program, it provided her the English skills she needed. Unfortunately, today Hannah cannot read, write nor speak fluent Swahili. The Bilingual program is a program designed for immigrant students who are learning English. There are two main types of bilingual programs; Bilingual Education and English Immersion. Bilingual Education is where students are taught both in…

Bilingual education has been a very controversial topic since the 1970’s when the civil rights movement had already passed and the thought of integration was becoming more welcoming. However, there have always been some people against the bilingual education movement and the implementation of programs in the school systems. The views of the American people have always been important because we live in a country where the voice of the people is what makes up the country. For that reason, the…

Bilingual Education Act 1968 With the combination of the rise in immigration and actions of the activists, congress finally decided to create Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 1968. Also known as the Bilingual Education Act (BEA), Gloria Stewner-Manzaneres defines it as “the first federal recognition that LESA (Low English Speaking Ability) students have special educational needs” (1). Before, the development of the native language of the student was pushed to the side.…

cover English, but schools would be bilingual. I know that this is a huge, time-consuming, expensive jump forward, but it is one that I hope to see expand nonetheless. Although our texts barely covered teaching ELL’s, they did seem quite supportive, “We are advocates of the bilingual instruction, which offers instruction in both English and the students’ native language, and are strongly opposed to the ‘English only’ movement, which would limit bilingual education and reduce acceptance of…

In chapter 8 it discussed a reason why we have to teach a balanced bilingual curriculum in the classroom. The textbook “Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism” by Colin Baker expressed the cognitive theories of bilingualism and the curriculum. There are three theories that make up the cognitive theories for bilingualism; The Balance Theory, The Iceberg Analogy, and The Thresholds Theory. Within the Iceberg Analogy it broke town the 6 parts of the Common Underlying Proficiency. Also…

In America, bilingual education is considered to be a controversial topic. Bilingual education can be anything from classroom instruction for those that have a native language other than English to secondary language classes in school. Making Bilingual Education mandatory in schools would be a great benefit to our society. Adding bilingual classes to the curriculum not only puts children at an advantage of different learning styles, but they become more culturally involved and they become a high…

I have honestly never taken politics into much consideration because I wasn't aware of the impact it has to bilingual education. I knew politics always had a connection with society, but to this degree. The changes the policies they create are constant and numbing to our students success. To them, it's all about the numbers. State testing scores, students are referred as ID numbers that follow them until college, only to receive a new set of numbers. When policies are passed they are not from…

stereotypes often associated with special education and bilingual education. For example, in special education some people tend to think that the students are crazy and hard to understand therefore they don't want to associate with them. They also think that students with disabilities are special and look different and because of this they should be treated differently than the rest. I believe that they shouldn't think like this of a child in special education because each child is capable of so…

language learners (NCES, 2015). Since there are a growing number of ELLs, it is vital for me to be aware of the instructional programs school districts are using to help these students become proficient in the English language. Bilingual Education Program A bilingual education program is one instructional program elementary schools…