Multilingualism

world of linguistic flexibility. The refusal to acknowledge the language resources of students and their families limits the possibilities for students’ educational success and achievement and shuts down opportunities for the development of multilingualism” (Hornberger and Link p. 262). On the other hand, just as was described in Beatriz's scenario, when the students' linguistic resources are valued, then the students see greater success in both academic and social contexts (Hornberger, 2012…

Culture in the Classroom • What techniques did Diane use to help her ELL students learn English more quickly? Created a flash card system that helped the Korean students to speak and read English more quickly, and to recognize the English language sounds. She wrote the Korean letters representing the English sounds. It also helped with their intonation. • How might you replicate some of her strategies in your classroom? Even if you are a monolingual English speaker, what outreach or other…

cardiologist in India. I acquired a different experience in that I communicated with patients from various socioeconomic backgrounds and observed the ways in how diseases impact people from varying backgrounds. I was beyond surprised to see how multilingualism allowed the doctor to effectively communicate with patients from different parts of the country. (I understood the responsibilities and obligations of being a…

Ixelles, a district of Brussels, and spent her childhood in Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. She learned to speak many languages, including English, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and German. For example, “Throughout her life, she used multilingualism to great advantage with international press in both her careers as an actress and humanitarian”(IMDb.com). Her father was an English banker who was approximately one quarter English and three quarters Austrian descent while her mother was…

DIVERSITY AS A RESULT OF IMMIGRATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: Immigration in France is widely being influenced by its former colonies in Africa, morocco, Algeria, Vietnam and a little part of India mainly Pondicherry. The influx of immigrant population were high as a result of World War I and II. Post World War, the soldiers who fought were given French citizen ship in a manner of paying tribute to their service to the country. As a result France has not only accommodated people of different…

preface of the book, “Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development”, Anna Wierzbicka explains that the people who are bilingual, are facing problems every day, due to the sense of the meaning of an word or a frase. She is focusing on multilingualism and emotions, the things that make harder the meanings of understanding between people. Also, she gives examples from her own life, whice are accurate, and shows very clearly the differences between languages. She was born in Poland but…

Warren J. Blumenfeld is a progressive author dedicated to the forward evolution of the United States and its extremely reserved systems. Being a well decorated writer in the Purple press and The Beacon press with modern and progressive articles means that Blumenfeld has a plethora of knowledge when appealing to the reserved audience of The Huffington Post. Using this background serves him well in his opportunity to convey the problems with modern English through his extensive use of logos and…

necessary. The occasional quotes from Greek poets in Paul’s writings allude that Paul also learned Greek and other languages from Gamaliel. By the end of his life, Paul could speak three main languages, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. He incorporated multilingualism into many of his letters. Paul was a tent maker by trade, but he was also a persecutor of the Church. Paul believed that the law…

the tower was a symbol to God of their arrogance and he saw one language as the culprit of this arrogance. By God’s creation of multiple dialects he shattered the dream of the tower and the harmony that existed. “…the Tower of Babel presents multilingualism as a divine curse meant to hinder our understanding” (McWhorter). A person living in Florida is not going to understand a pure Baltimorean. I witnessed this confusion first hand when my Aunt came to visit. Steven Pinker, author of “Grammar…

Inspired by the writings in the article titled “Vanishing Voices” by Russ Rymer, particularly the writings titled “Tuvan, I became aware that many endangered languages and cultures have neared extinction when faced with infrastructure growth and global progress. Much of the economic, technological, and political growth is greatly attributed to a globalized society. The article describes the Republic of Tuvan, in which a family is portrayed as living “ between the border of progress and…