Multilingualism

This quarter, we learned to critically think about education as a social institution. Throughout the course, we focused on the framework of education with the concepts of culture and language. My further understanding of student achievement and the factors that affect the outcomes of U.S. public schools has expanded immensely. After gathering research from the course authors, students were able to assess their knowledge through the video assignment. The video assignment allowed us to convey our…

While test interpretation could be complicated, when it comes to multicultural issues within test interpretation we face many problems. Initially the availability of a reliable or adequate test for the bilingual population is rarely possible, and there will probably never be a perfect test to assess this population. There are many tests available in Spanish but due to the wide variation of the language from person to person, many challenges arise. For those people who speak other languages than…

The United States, a melting point of ethnicities, was founded as a nation of diverse populations coming together for one central goal: freedom. Years later and the definition of freedom has been distorted and altered. The country has seen racial and gender oppression of many sorts, from Native American residents to Mexican immigrants, that still continues in many ways today. With a surplus of ethnicities, there lie a surplus of cultures. These cultures represent themselves with different…

1.3: Indicate whether each of the studies described below is a descriptive or experimental study, and what could be learned from these. An experimental study describes a situation in which a procedure — or experiment — is purposely introduced to a situation to determine the outcome (Nedha). Whereas a descriptive study describes a natural situation which is studied for observation without any interference (Nedha). If Instructors were to give three groups of children different types of computer…

Multilingual speakers can communicate with others in different languages. "Burning Each of the Candle: Negotiating Dual Identities in Second Language Writing" by Soo Hyon Kim and "Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Setting: Korean 1.5 Generation in Email Writing" by Kang express multilingual speakers’ identities. Kim feels confused because she can use two kinds of languages, and different languages makes her has many identities. Conflicts of different identities cause her complications.…

The process of globalization is rapidly expanding through numerous factors, such as the development of multinational corporations, the construction of international organizations, and the strengthening of international relations. One contributing factor, that is often marginalized by politicians and citizens alike, is the growing demand for learning foreign languages. More and more people around the world have been taking second, third language classes for multiple purposes, especially…

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…

As someone who has always straddled two cultures, Albanian and American, I know what it means to participate in two different language codes. One code, the private code, has to do with speaking a more intimate language. At home or in my local church, my parents have a more comfortable, personal approach when it comes to speaking. They usually speak in Albanian to one another or when they encounter an Albanian native. In this way they both can express themselves easily and have have a better…

Being bilingual has shaped the way I approach the world around me. Being able to speak two different languages has helped me understand the world a little better and, has given me the opportunity to expand my vocabulary. This helps open doors to understanding and appreciate two completely different cultures. Having the knowledge of two languages helps us to have more flexibility in ways to of thinking and in the way we handle problems. Speaking two languages has impacted me and the way I…

UC Davis states that it’s main purpose as an University is the generation, advancement, dissemination and application of knowledge. This University goal is for it’s students to apply the knowledge they have learned here to address the needs of region, state, nation and the world. In today’s world, the era of globalization has been rapidly increasing over the last decade and countries around the world have become interdependent on each other. Here in America, people are lacking necessary language…