Dual language

graduating from The College of William and Mary with an undergraduate concentration in Government and Spanish Language. Coming from a family of educators, her mom is a retired high school Spanish teacher and her dad is a retired university professor, Julie did not initially want to become a teacher when she went off to college. However, upon graduation Julie knew that she wanted to use her language skills in her future career and thus applied to The Peace Corp, Teach for America, and a few jobs…

Are Bilingual Children at a High Risk for Misdiagnoses of Impairments? One of the many duties of a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) is to provide services to clients regardless of their cultural and linguistic backgrounds. This requires SLPs to often treat clients who speak multiple languages, including languages other than their own (Verdon et al. 2014). In recent years, there has been a significant growth in the U.S. of individuals with linguistically diverse backgrounds. As a result,…

Bilingual Education and Public Schools The United States is currently experiencing large influxes of immigrants in the public education system. Since the majority of these immigrant children speak a language other than English, schools are faced with the burden of educating them in content, language, and culture, with few effective resources. The Supreme Court places immigrant children in the public education system with their ruling that all persons, regardless of documentation, have the right…

American Language Policy Should there be an official language policy that needs to be adopted such as in other countries? The United States was created by immigrants that left their countries due to many reasons. With such a diverse crowd of ethnicities full of culture and traditions, it would come as no surprise that these ethnic groups would have their own languages. One reason some feel that there should be a language policy is that of communication problems between two different language…

students L2. So, to help immigrant student’s performance is encourage develop their L1 at school and home. Finally, authors provide ideas and avidities to help developing L1 in class. APA citation for article #2: Genesee, F. (2008) Dual language in the global village. In T. Fortune and D. Tedick (ed.), Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education (pp. 22–45). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Summary of article #2: The…

One way to address this problem is to require students to take two years of foreign language to graduate high school. By requiring two years it allows the student to become accustomed with the language; it also mirrors the minimum requirements for entry into college. 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%…

appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country”. I believe going to the origin of the language and culture will better allow me to master the necessary language skills that in turn will benefit these students as well as my future students. My major in Psychology with Dual Certification in Childhood and Special Education has provided me access to work with a diverse population of students in the New York State district of…

parents, monolingual parents included, start to become aware of and appreciate the importance of mastering a second language and wish their children to be bilingual. Considering the practical advantages of being bilingual, such as better future career opportunities, positive effects on self-image, and the development of skills of enabling effective communication within different language-speaking communities, parents appear to be highly supportive of bilingual school programs (Lao, 2014). As a…

bilingual classroom had better “cognitive control skills” (Christofells et al). This shows that the effects of bilingual education on the student’s minds are positive overall. Students will gain a lot cognitively and socially through knowing two languages. The culture of the world is more focused on bilingualism than ever. Students will be more likely to get jobs if they are bilingual. Students will also be able to communicate with more people and will gain a greater understanding of the…

Wardhaugh terms language as a “communal possession”: an entity that belongs to a certain group of people. However, it can be argued that scripted language is not only a possession but also evidence of the existence of a people and culture: the absence of any written records from the Xia dynasty keeps us from acknowledging it as China’s first historical dynasty. Scripted language disguised as inscriptions on oracle bones or streaked characters in the foreground of modern artwork, carry forward…