Language immersion

Language is one aspect of social culture. Language can only be used in social environments. Today, society continuously sets a new demand on the structure of knowledge, and learning a foreign language is no longer the fashion; it is a necessary demand of social development in the present time, and a kind of essential quality talented person should possess. Language and culture are related and interdependent. One’s ability to learn a language to a great extent depends on his/her level of…

two-way or one-way immersion. Even though there are programs that help the student become bilingual and biliterate, we must look at the translanguaging, comprehensible input, affective, cognitive, and meta-cognitive strategies from the student. We must also validate the student’s culture and support their language for a minimum of 5 years. “An additive bilingual situation is where the addition of a second language and culture is unlikely to replace or displace the first language and culture”…

The spread of English across the world have resulted in overtaking or replacing of other languages. In order to maintain the usage of these languages, many efforts were implemented. This was evident in Singapore where the overemphasis on English has led to children frequently using English at home thus decreasing the usage of their Mother Tongue languages (MT), such as Mandarin, Malay and Tamil (Bolton & Ng, 2014). Hence, Ministry of Education (MOE) implemented a MT approach, also known as…

“Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children” (Michael Grove). For children just beginning their journey in school their enthusiasm to learn is profound. They are excited to learn anything and everything. For most schools this includes the basics such as math and reading, but for Morningside Elementary School this is not the case. The children at this…

Second Language”, the writer, Meg Butler, mentions that students learn a second language through making flash cards and spending hours memorizing verb conjugations. Although children may be able to gain a firmer grasp on second languages before the age of 10, I am not sure that they would be as receptive to the same method of teaching. The article points out that certain schools “like Language Stars capitalize on this window and are able to teach children a new language simply through…

Dual Immersion programs, sometimes called the cooperative immersion or dual language education, are an enhancement method of bilingual education in which English learners and native English-speaking students are joined through the entire school day and taught the minority language for fifty percent or more of the day. There are two mutual differences of dual immersion programs: 90/10 and 50/50. In a 90/10 model, the second language is taught to students for about ninety percent of the day…

teaching a system, especially when language instruction takes place outside the target country. In such outside environments, teachers need to immerse the students in the language and culture as much as possible by assigning them tasks that encourage language production in real and meaningful contexts. Often, in traditional classrooms, communicative…

The United States, contrary to popular belief, does not have an official language. Although English is the de facto language of the United States, the Constitution makes "no reference to choice of a national language" (Heath, 1995, p.179). This tolerance of foreign languages, along with mass immigration, has enriched the linguistic diversity in the United States. Not surprisingly, this diversity has also made multilingual education an important component of American schooling—most American high…

must be exposed and prepared to communicate and collaborate with individuals across a variety of languages and cultures. Although English is the current language standard for global communication, more than half of people in the world speak two or more languages and the number continues to rise with an “estimated 85 percent of the world’s population [being] multilingual by 2050” (Center for Language and Brain). Put another way, the steadily increasing interconnectedness of the world and all that…

of the languages used in school. However in Moore’s research parents knew the benefices to offer that type of education to their children. They knew they had to be present and have a high involvement in their education. This problem is quite similar to the one American parents, who have children in immersion school, are facing. Therefore, the author will compare the solutions and techniques used in both countries, further in this paper. Situation in the United States of America Language…