Multilingualism

Another benefit that bilingual education is that native students are able to have in contact with another culture and it also helps to ELL student maintains their culture. One of the reason why maintaining culture, especially for immigrant families because the first generation are from another language, so they don’t really speak English. On the other hand, second generation is more fluent in English because they had their education in America. While they are being taught English, at the same…

Compare and Contrast essay The two texts, from The Winged Seed the autobiography of Li-Young Lee written 1995, and the text from the book Multilingualism written by John Edwards in 1994 are talking about growing up as a bilingual child in a monolingual speaking country. Even though the theme talking about growing up bilingual is easy to spot in the two texts, there are still a lot of differences. They agree on one thing; being bilingual is not the problem. In Lee’s text he mentions how he was…

have been various scholars writing about English as a language. Their viewpoints differ significantly, but at times agree with each other. An example of these linguists is Franklin Raff and Warren Blumenfeld. Raff wrote the article “American Multilingualism: A National Tragedy” While Blumenfeld’s article is “’English Only’ Laws Divide and Demean”. The…

Over the course of weeks nine and ten, there was a substantial amount of reading material that touched on multiple different, interesting topics. In week nine, we started by reading chapters three and five in the course’s primary text, Educating Emergent Bilinguals by Ofelia García and Jo Anne Kleifgen. The selection from chapter three touched briefly on the history of educational policy surrounding ELLs, with examples including how Brown vs. Board of Education, Lau vs. Nichols, and other…

however, it’s full intention is to promote immigrant acculturation [into the states]. The official-English movement approaches multilingualism with caution, although they do not plan to entirely dismiss the rights of individuals who need certain language services in their mother tongue such in situations of public safety and health (Crystal 131). Policy makers who support this movement…

spheres of life on personal, social and professional levels. Knowledge of foreign languages are beneficial every day, either you are communicating with foreign people for personal matters or dealing with professional business at work. Furthermore, multilingualism broadens career perspectives. Nevertheless, the main problem seems to be that people are unable to comprehend these facts, which shows the importance of learning foreign languages. According to the survey done by Eurobarometer…

I state this based on Grosjean’s perspective that “the bilingual is not just someone who speaks two languages, but he possesses… communicative skills in two languages at different levels” (in Wei, 2007). In this paradigm of bilingualism (or multilingualism), being able to use English for communicative and academic purposes, being able to read academic texts in Italian and understanding general conversations in such language, being able to understand general ideas from conversations in French;…

Thus, multilingualism, the turning point of Proposition 227 to Proposition 58, is lost when dealing with individuals that strongly identify as AAVE speakers, for instance. As Kroskrity stated “‘I only have to hear someone talk for a short while before I know who they…

The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of decision-making factors of caregivers of children with hearing loss regarding the use of speech, the use of sign, spoken language multilingualism, and spoken language choice. Often, caregivers are making these important decisions while often not knowing the effects it will have on them and their child. According to the article, the previous studies “(a) allowed for a comprehensive set of potential factors to be examined, (b) allowed for…

explains that having limited knowledge about Spanish is frowned upon the Spanish speaking community and women who lack in their native language are seen as “agringadas” (Anzaldúa 2007, 80). The solution to the language shaming is to celebrate multilingualism and encourage the younger generations to learn both languages…