Bilingual education

In the articles "Bilingual Education Is Ineffective" by Christine Rossell, and "Bilingual Education Is Necessary" by Maria Estela Brisk. They both discuss the controversial issue known as bilingual education. On the one hand Rossell points how ineffective bilingual education by providing data analysis that fuels her claims, but at the same time providing recommendation/solutions to this debate . On the other hand, Brisk insist the need of bilingual education should be left for schools to decide…

The issues involving bilingual education are preventable. Teachers and students have to work together to achieve success. I see the issues as either the teacher is unwilling to go the extra mile or the student lacks the motivation. The text book states the the drop-out rate of minority populations is higher than fifty percent. That is unacceptable. The student has to have the drive but in a way I think the teacher has the ability to spark it. The teacher gives the student a reason for motivation…

Introduction Nelson Mandela stated that “education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” thus each country desire to provide their constituent the best education to enhance human resources and economic stability. If the academic achievement of a country is thriving, then it follows that the economic status is soars to success. Changes in the Curriculum Design According to Danielson, students’ achievement has not significantly improved since 1983 (2002, p viii).…

PRESERVING BILINGUAL SCHOOL IN INDONESIA Do you think that learning foreign language is important? How about entering the children to bilingual school? Will it increase their second language ability? In fact, there were many researchers and experts had been discussed about the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of bilingual education. One of the reasons why the bilingual schools can be unacceptable studies is when the study did not appropriate statistical tests (Rossell & Baker, 1996). On the…

According to François Grosjean, the author of Bilingual: Life and Reality, most of the world’s population is bilingual. While quantifying bilingualism is tricky, Grosjean reports these rough measures: Europe: 56% Great Britain: 38% Canada: 35% United States: 17%. By just looking at the rough estimates of these numbers we see that the United States are falling far behind the rest of the world. There are many advantages to becoming or being bilingual. Among them is that you will have better and…

Bilingual Education Has it ever occurred to you that every class you’ve taken in school was taught in English? That might be a good thing for you, but for non-English speakers it’s a different story. It’s a given to not being able to understand material leading to struggling to keep good grades. This is what non-English speakers have to deal with through their schooling, due to language barriers and lack of knowledge of the English language. The only solution to this problem is to integrate…

to bilingual education. Programs designed for children to learn English should be chosen for what works best for the family, and their students. Historically, legislators have made decisions for communities without asking the needs of the community. Parents must have a choice in what type of bilingual education their children receive, and should be given all the necessary information to make an informed decision. “Texas is one of only four states currently requiring bilingual education.”…

The purpose for the bilingual education is to help the kids that need to have access to that language barrier that they want to knock down for awhile. However, there have been some cases around the globe that have said that bilingual education is not appropriate for this certain school. A lot of the students in some school for today are complaining about not being able to communicate with their peers. But, in some cases that this type of education has helped with most of the students to be able…

include foreign people coming into America, according to the article “Bilingual Education: An Overview” (Feinberg and Morencia). Many of the immigrants will have young children who will enroll in schools across the country; therefore, schools need to be prepared for the amount of foreign children that are preparing to enroll in American schools, according to the article, “Language Barriers: Only the Beginning” (Guthrie). Bilingual education should be implemented in schools in the United States…

Pros of Bilingual Education More than one hundred thousand child immigrants are assumed to arrive in America by next year, however restraints on bilingual education makes it harder for children to adjust within schools. Obviously school is important because young children start school at the age of four or five and learn basic math, reading, and comprehension skills. These skills pave the way for higher education classes like calculus, critical reading, and writing. A problem people believe that…