Fluent

to provide a better learning environment for students that are not fluent in English. Today’s society has become very diverse and has numerous students throughout the school system who are not fluent in English. The recent studies throughout the years that I have read about have implemented tutoring for students who are not completely fluent in English, as well as providing an assistant foreign speaker in the classroom who are fluent in other languages. Teachers do not have the adequate amount…

ASL is “a formal language employing a system of hand gestures for communication (as by the deaf).” (Webster) The deaf or hearing- impaired can become fluent in reading and writing, but those who are not deaf can also benefit from learning ASL through building a better vocabulary, boosting mental stimulation, and it offers…

In cities that are fluent, where consumer demands for products are already being met, Walmart presence downsizes the economy. According to an article What It Really Costs When Walmart Comes to Town, by Business News Daily, it reveals the financial devastation Walmart can have in a developed city. The problem stems from low wages Walmart pays to its employees. In average, they pay its employees at least 3 dollars per hour below compared to other employees in similar retail stores in the area,…

Many parents will fear their children would get confused between two languages. Code-mixing normally happens in both young children and adults who are bilingual. They will mix between two languages in one sentence. Code- mixing is not a sign that shows children are confused in learning two languages (Brown, 2014). Research showed the code-mixing language and early language development are not related (Place & Hoff, 2011). Some studies showed young children understand code- mixing sentences and…

the school is trying to bring together. This is not true for all, some students pick up English rather faster than others, for various reasons, may migrate to students who are fluent in English. However, there seems to be no in between. This creates stigmas and assumptions about English –learners and students who are not fluent in English. This preserves race prejudice through group position according to Herbert Blumer, Race Prejudice as sense of Group Position, is defined as one group who…

Being a bilingual speaker myself, and having grown up in a multilingual home, I was particularly interested in this topic. Bilingualism is on the rise, “It has been estimated that more than half the world's population is bilingual, that is lives with two or more languages. Bilingualism is found in all parts of the world, at all levels of society, in all age groups. Even in countries with many monolinguals, the percentage of bilinguals is high.” (Grosjean, Myths about bilingualism). This means…

I think it is so important to help students make connections between what they have previously learned in order to build and grow their vocabulary. The kids are making important connections in order to become fluent readers. I think that this is the strategy I see kids using the most. I even introduce this strategy when I see students struggling with a word. It is just easier to break something down instead of trying to understand as a whole. After, they…

strongly identify themselves to a dialect or language by the way they speak. As a result, Proposition 58’s classification of language negative impact the non-Standard American English dialects by portraying them as the wrong form of English to be fluent on. Therefore, as Lippi-Green stated some “employers have a negative emotive reaction to this feature of AAVE, the invariant ‘be’ form” (Lippi-Green 2012…

Federal and state laws govern the education system in the United States. In Arizona there are current laws that govern English Language Learners (ELLs), specifically Proposition 203, which Arizona voters approved and went into effect in 2001. Proposition 203 changed the law by removing bilingual education and putting the Structured English Immersion models into place instead, (Jost, K. (2009, December 16). Bilingual education vs. English immersion. The CQ Researcher Blog.). According to…

Since I was a child, psychology was something that I was interested in. Understanding humans and the brain are a huge passion of mine. I struggle with depression and it's one of the hardest things that I deal with on a daily basis and it is constantly heading my curiosity about the human psyche and I would like to help others who struggle with it as much as I do and to figure out why it occurs the way it does. I have taken plenty of psychology classes at my high school and even before high…