Multilingualism

PRESERVING BILINGUAL SCHOOL IN INDONESIA Do you think that learning foreign language is important? How about entering the children to bilingual school? Will it increase their second language ability? In fact, there were many researchers and experts had been discussed about the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of bilingual education. One of the reasons why the bilingual schools can be unacceptable studies is when the study did not appropriate statistical tests (Rossell & Baker, 1996). On the…

The politics of speaking English well While reading Stephen Grootes’ article, “The politics of navigating the English Language”, I became increasingly annoyed. In a country with 11 official languages why are we overly concerned with how well people speak English? Grootes’ article looks at prominent political leaders and how they fair when presenting themselves in English. The unintended consequence of writing such an article is that Grootes appears to be an elocution “Nazi” rather than a…

The Basque people have throughout history endured a prolonged fight for their right to become an independent country and live together in unity. As they are split in two countries, progress seems far away. Furthermore, since they are living in two different countries and, therefore, speaking two different languages communication provides an interesting difference for comparing and contrasting. This essay shall introduce into the Basque culture regarding their cultural and intercultural issues.…

in Europe, value languages much more than this country does. Learning languages would help improve both American general education and encourage higher levels of cognitive development from a young age. To catch up with the rest of the world in multilingualism, it would be beneficial for America to teach foreign languages with immersion programs starting in preschool. A language immersion program is a…

Language Diversity Language Diversity The diversity of languages is a fact of life There are about 6,500 different, mutually unintelligible languages, which belong to 250 large families. There is immense diversity in terms of contrastive sounds (phonemes) from a dozen to 100; in word order - Subject-Predicate, or Topic-Comment; some use inflections while others use particles. Linguistic diversity is related to the diversity of life—humans, animals, plants, and microbes. Every being communicates…

The article “English Only” Laws divide and Demean by Warren J. Blumenfeld states the author’s view against enacting a law making English the official language of the federal government. Mr. Blumenfeld’s premise in "English Only" is that the law is unnecessary and divisive in the United States. He is seeking a call to action in his home state of Iowa against the “English-only” law because he believes that it will negatively impact the beliefs that our nation is founded upon, rather than…

Unlike Belgium, the people of Switzerland accepted the fact that there are many ethnic groups and languages spoken in their country, and they promoted official multilingualism. It was decided that a common language was not necessary. Switzerland also created a direct democracy and a homogenous nation state that favors political power sharing between all ethnic groups in the country. Switzerland has a will to create…

Children are a valuable resource and should be educated as such. The generations in the past that were filled with prejudice could have been filled with love. Instead, the little boys and girls of yesterday were taught irrational ideas by their teachers and parents. Today times are much different. The manner in which everything is taught today focuses a lot more on diversity. As a society though, the current standards must be up kept and the education that the future is receiving must be…

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Aminata’s multilingualism helped her become a valuable asset in the ship ride for the captors. For instance, when the Medicine Man allows her to stay with him because of her abilities of being fluent in many tribal languages, which helped him and his men communicate with…