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Being completely honest I never had an option on being bilingual. I never had the option of weather or not to absorbing the words of those late night novelas that spilled out of my dimmely brightened living room television, or early morning songs filling the kitchen with Chayanne or Los Tigres del Norte, and I didn’t have a choice on weather I went to Catholic Sunday school where I wrote and recited dozens of prayers by memory. It was never a choice because it was part of me and my culture that…

Cross-cultural Analysis of Bilinguals Most of the people who I know in the United States are bilingual, and I think that is a result of the diverse, and multicultural nature of the American society. So, it is quite easy to choose someone, and interview him/her for a cross-cultural analysis. I chose Amandine because she has the most inspiring, and eye-opening experience of all of my bilingual friends. After interviewing her, I knew that we shared similar and different linguistic experiences.…

According to Maastricht et.al. (2016), the research represents that native speakers may distinct second language learners based on their "prosodic features", such as intonation, rhythm and utterance speed. Especially, the placement of "pitch accent" are the key source to make difference between the native speaker and second language learners. These can be the cause of confliction on communication if non-native speaker unable to use "prosodic" properly. Secondly…

be an extremely multicultural nation, it is inferred that as a nation, educating immigrants in the english language is beneficial, however accustoming to various languages is destructive to the standard tongue used. Bilingual education has been a major aspect in the history of the American education system. However, bilingual education has become a less used term due to the disloyalty it brought over the course of history and is now referred to as structured english immersion programs (SEI).…

These postulations are answered in the following paragraphs titled with The Cost of Multilingualism and The Dis-United States. The author illustrates two major reasons, which are reducing the cost of the federal spending and avoiding a series of severe constitutional crisis. First of all, the author states clearly in paragraph 11, “The federal government has spent over $100 million to study the effectiveness of bilingual education, only to discover that it is less effective at teaching…

Language immersion is a method of teaching language, usually a second language, in which the target language is used as both the content of the curriculum and the medium of instruction. According to Baker (2006; cited by: Pacific Policy Research Center, 2010), there are three major levels of language immersion education divided according to age: • early immersion, from age 5 or 6, • middle immersion, from age 9 or 10, and • late immersion, from ages 11 and 14. In programs that make use of…

Second language question: Bilingual Children Age plays a significant role in learning a new language. It is not easy to learn a new language for adults. There are many difficulties and obstacles facing those who want to learn a new language. Languages differ from each other, the most important way of reading and grammar. Learning a new language like a child at the beginning of learning to speak. According the essay “Literacy: A Lineage”, by Melanie Luken, who was a French and English major at…

of Immigrants To understand the issue of language loss in immigrant generations one must know the different generations. The first generation is the immigrant themselves who are foreign born, the second generations are born with at least one foreign…

ENL: English as a Native Language is traditionally assumed to be a language that is acquired from birth without formal instruction (versus a language that was learned as a second or later language). ENL is also referred to as L1 (first language), mother tongue, or inner circle variety. An issue with the term “native language” or L1 lies in the fact that it is based on the premise of a monolingual society, whereas many societies are multilingual. In multilingual societies, a child may grow up…

Many college students may think that their mandatory foreign language classes are just requirements to check off their list, they may also wonder: “Is learning a second language in the United States worth it? What are the benefits of learning a second language?” These are common questions that not only college students, but many workers across the United States have faced and tried to answer during their education years. In an increasingly competitive international economy, while high GPA,…