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first language you realize more. The more you know about English, the more aware you become of your native language. Why? That's because most of often you compare the differences between English and your native language. Any learner of English as a second language does that. It's natural to think about one's own language at the same time when we are using English. Everyday humans show their expressions of point of view to others in some form of language. It can be through speaking, writing or…

Most of the time immigrants underestimate the difficulties they might face in their new destinations. Such as overcoming language barrier, adapting to the new culture and environment. One of the writers who discussed the issue of challenges immigrants face was Lan Cao. This essay will clearly analyze the weaknesses and strengths of the article "The Gift of Language" by Lan Cao. In the excerpt, the author tells about a Vietnamese girl and her mother who immigrate to America during the Vietnam…

the French language and examined if mixing the two languages generated a different result in the Stroop effect. The experimenters created three separate experiments. One of the experiments focused on the Stroop test with the English language, the second experiment focused on the Stroop test with the French language, and the third experiment conducted the Stroop test with both of the languages mixed together. In total, thirty-one English-French bilinguals participated in the experiment, five of…

To my friends & family in Italy, I have only been in America for a few weeks now, it was a long hard journey to get to where I am now but I know it will all be worth it in the end. Leaving all of you in Italy was definitely the hardest part about all of this. After boarding a boat with not one friend or loved one, and being stuck there with them for a very, very long time it was difficult not to want to go back home to my family. But I knew that going to America was the right choice to be…

As a child, I lived with my mother who spoke to me in English, but every other weekend when I went to my father’s house, he would try to get me to speak in Spanish. My dad would speak to me in Spanish and only respond to me if I responded in Spanish. I use to hate this method as a child, but as I got older I realized how important it was for my father to do that. Now, I am appreciative that I am bilingual. I should be speaking more Spanish, but I guess my mother not speaking to me in Spanish…

Going into this class my thoughts of what an ELL was before reading Coehlo (2004) and Li, Myles, & Robinson (2012) was someone who had immigrated to Canada and English was not their first language. It is probably a common assumption among the majority of the population even though it is a wrong one. I also only viewed an ELL as someone who is initially learning the language, but as talked about in the lesson, the learning never really stops. I never would have viewed an individual who is a…

Bias #1, Page 171: “However, a CI can enable strong spoken language only when used with intensive auditory- oral exposure in extended, salient, and child-initiated interactions.6 Without a full linguistic and auditory experience, the effects of deafness- associated deprivation can derail the spoken language learning process before it begins.” (Mellon, N. K.) Author Nancy Mellon is currently the executive director at a non-profit agency providing several services for children who are deaf and…

poem in a sestina pattern, however giving her own spin off to it by incorporating Spanish words. In order for the message to be understood, Julia Alvarez places the audience in her shoes in order to recognize the difficulty of having English as a second language. Although most of the poem is English, there are a couple of Spanish words. This leaves the audience to feel lost or as if she is not getting the full message. Ironically that is how many bilingual people may feel when they are still…

Bilingualism is seen as being able to interact and connect with two different cultures. The development of Bilingualism begins at very young age, it become a form of identity among children and it creates this way of life that they consider normal. Being bilingual in America is knowing two different languages in most cases, Spanish and English. It is learning Spanish from their most likely uneducated parents and learning English from their surroundings along with perfecting the language through…

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” (Baker, 2001, pg. 58). Additive bilingual programs purpose is to educate the child…