Multilingualism

I choose auricles of “Let’s Not say Adios to Bilingual Education” by Rovira, and the article “California Republicans Vote to Restore “Bilingual Education” ”by Unz. Compare claim, evidence and audience, which makes them more useful. Firstly, I want to talk about claims of two articles. For article “Let’s Not say Adios to Bilingual Education”, the claim is about supports bilingual education. From the introduction of the article, Rovira used an example about California to stop bilingual education,…

Bilingual Benefits The characteristic that sets humans apart from mammals is the ability to communicate with one another. To be able to communicate with one another, there is what is commonly known as languages. Languages have been around for thousands of years; dating back to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. One of the oldest languages is Latin; most all European languages are derived from it. Unfortunately, there is no universal language that everyone speaks. So in order to better communicate,…

The question that will be investigated is, “Is bilingual or non-bilingual students independent on intelligence?” Several studies, such as Bialystok et al; Oller, Pearson & Cobo-Lewis, 2007 contributed to better understanding of the cognitive development in bilingual and monolingual children. The results also showed that monolingual and bilingual children performed equivalently on a test of fluid intelligence but monolingual children obtained higher scores than bilinguals on a test of English…

The paper evaluates research article that discusses current research of how bilingual advantages in executive function depend on characteristics of the participants and features of the tasks. Compared with monolinguals, bilinguals show superior performance in versions of such tasks as the Simon task, Stroop task, and flanker task. All these tasks require resolving conflict from distracting cues, switching efficiently between types of trials, and maintaining rules in working memory, all…

The Language Obstacle There is a hidden obstacle for a monolingual speaker to learn additional languages What does it mean to be monolingual? To be monolingual means to know only one language and not learn any additional languages. It is extremely beneficial to learn more than one language now than ever because it will benefit you in the future and will allow you to socialize with more people and get to know more culture and religion. Unfortunately individuals do not take the chance to learn…

Introduction For many years, there has been numerous responses to questions about the connection between number of languages spoken and its effect on our brains. Most of these responses were quick to highlight the negative impacts of bilingualism. The findings by Ellen Bialystok, Thomas Bak, and Janet Werker, all conclude that being bilingual is an advantage rather than a disadvantage. They explain the benefits of bilingualism, and the effects of bilingualism on cognitive aging. Bialystok…

“One of the bedrock areas of agreement in this country, for at least the last century, has been that education is a core commitment of our society” (Buchanan, 2012, para. 1). Developing productive citizens is essential for an educational institution. Therefore, a very school in the United States should have two languages as media of instruction. It is against this background that I will describe the setting of my bilingual program. Moreover, the ensuing paper will discuss the implications of…

According to Ford (2001), language mixing is the term used to describe the phenomenon of communication though the usage of two languages as if they were one language. Ford (2001) states that mixing is unconscious and is used by child without regard of their interlocutor's understanding of both languages. This means that the child is only using words that he/she has learned to communicate their needs at the given moment. Alina demonstrated a significant amount of language mixing errors also known…

Education: 1. With the highly changing demographics of the American public school system, is it fair to expect the education of multilingual districts, to face the expenses that require highly qualified bilingual teachers? What if your community has several minorities groups, with uniquely different languages? Would each classroom be required to maintain 3 or more professional educators, to fulfill the language barriers that exist? Most communities say yes! For thousands of years, bilingual…

Ricardo describes his childhood as a child of Mexican immigrant parents studying in an English school in America, where he had problems in communicating at school because he did not know the “public language”, English. At first, he was shy and timid at school because he was feeling uncomfortable with English, but with his parents’ and teacher’s help he “raised his hand to volunteer an answer”, from that day he “moved very far from the disadvantaged child”(288). He then started feeling as an…