Multilingualism

In today's diverse day and age being bilingual is very helpful and important. Being able to speak spanish opens the door to so many career opportunities. It will help with trade and communication with spanish countries. Job opportunities for example helping people at places that don't speak english will open up. Also becoming a spanish teacher is possible. It is greatly important that students should be required to learn spanish in school. Being able to speak spanish is a great thing. All…

Before talking about the arguments for and against the bilingual education, it is essential to define this notion. Bilingual education is often mixed with bilingualism, but those notion are slighty different. The bilingualism is to characterize someone who “has the minimum ability to complete fluency in more than one language” (Hornby, 1977), whereas the bilingual education is “the use of two languages as a media of instruction for a child or a group of children in part or all of the school…

It is a proven fact that by the age a child is 3 their brain is fully developed. When they are in the mothers whom that is when they can differentiate the the various sounds around them. There mothers voice is the first voice they pick up. It also has to do with the environment. Babies will adapt to the style of speaking it is around. When people talk around the babies they are taking statistics on what is said around them. If they are in American, then English is all that they knew because that…

The Guadalupe Harber Scholarship and The Rodolfo Jacobson Scholarship Itzel Esquivel Bilingual. That is what I like to consider myself. Growing up I didn’t necessarily have the best bilingual education experience but I did not let that stop me from pursuing my education to become at bilingual educator. I have seen that with the right people and the right tools in the classroom, bilingual education can go a far way. I have seen that being bilingual education has its many benefits that help…

According to the Society of Neuroscience, bilingualism not only improves an individual's concentration ability, but might also protect the human brain against age-related diseases (Susan Perry). There is no doubt that bilingualism brings out individual cognitive benefits. But, what about collective advantages? James Fallows effectively addresses those benefits in his article "Viva Bilingualism." The article states that bilingualism is a positive attribute for both Americans and foreigners in the…

Are Bilingual Children at a High Risk for Misdiagnoses of Impairments? One of the many duties of a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) is to provide services to clients regardless of their cultural and linguistic backgrounds. This requires SLPs to often treat clients who speak multiple languages, including languages other than their own (Verdon et al. 2014). In recent years, there has been a significant growth in the U.S. of individuals with linguistically diverse backgrounds. As a result,…

Pros of Bilingual Education More than one hundred thousand child immigrants are assumed to arrive in America by next year, however restraints on bilingual education makes it harder for children to adjust within schools. Obviously school is important because young children start school at the age of four or five and learn basic math, reading, and comprehension skills. These skills pave the way for higher education classes like calculus, critical reading, and writing. A problem people believe that…

Bill #3 General Debate Pro- I am in support of this bill because it is giving all citizens of the United States a fair chance to succeed in this world. Bilingual education breaks down the biggest barrier to acceptance into a new culture. Often times a person is unable to effectively transition because they are unable to understand the language being spoken. Researchers have found that students experiencing discriminatory practices such as the inability to be taught in their native language…

This essay discusses being bilinguals as an advantage as being bilingual children. Section 2 introduces the definition of the term “bilinguals children” and the types of bilingual children. With the global communication getting closer and more frequent, the percentage of bilinguals in the global population is getting higher. It is believed that more than one-third of the populations are bilinguals in some countries in Africa and Asia (Wei, 2000). Section 2.2 discusses the distribution and life…

I would like to do an independent research of bilingualism and stuttering. Whether learning a second language affect stuttering is a common question that has been asked by many people over the years. Although this question started raising in the 19th century, it is still a myth whether there is a relationship between bilingualism and stuttering. According to The Stutter Foundation, 31.8 million people in the U.S speak a language other than English, and it has been claimed that nearly 50% of the…