Multilingualism

Summary The broader issue presented in this paper is to determine if there is “a principled way to understand the nature of rehabilitation in bilingual aphasia such that patterns of acquisition and generalization are predictable and logical” (p. S299). This study is attempting to provide further knowledge of the manner in which people with bilingual aphasia reacquire and develop their language skills in order to help construct some patterns that “are predictable and logical” (p. S298). This is…

Early acquisition of vocabulary, and the development of linguistic and communicative competence have been largely associated with the input children get from their environment. The social world, home environment, and routines children are exposed to provide the input they need in order to become competent speakers. Even when the child is in utero, the spoken language outside of the womb affects children’s sensitivity to certain sounds. Consistent with this idea, there is evidence showing that…

Most of the empirical research confirms that most children learn best in their first language as a basis for bilingual and multilingual education. Studies indicate that six to eight years of education is necessary for the development of literacy and verbal proficiency required for secondary school academic achievement. Empirical evidence suggests that the ability of a child to learn a second language does not suffer if the primary language used for instruction in the entire primary school is the…

Statistics show that the Mexican-American race has the highest number of people that populate the United States, and this demographic continues to grow even more. A Mexican-American is an American of full or partial Mexican decent. My parents, both born in Mexico, migrated to the United States in search of a better future for themselves and children. Because of my Hispanic roots, and my birth in the U.S., I am considered a Mexican-American. As a result of my equivalent exposure to two different…

a) In the late 1960s, Singapore government introduced a bilingual education policy. Mother Tongue languages such as Mandarin, Malay and Tamil are known to be the students’ second language in Singapore. It is mandatory for each student to take up at least one second language. However according to an online news "Much Ado About Mother Tongue", students have not been coping well with their Mother Tongue language over the past years. Instead, the students are excelling in other subjects such as…

Persuasion Pursuit: Viewpoints on Multicultural Communication What precisely is multicultural communication? It is a form of communication that consist of different languages and cultures. This nation is loaded with a huge number of multilingual people. A considerable lot of the people experience serious difficulties with multicultural communication in their homes, school, and other open settings. In these cases, a large number of the people whose first language is not English are judged on…

“Aria” is a chapter from a book titled Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez concerning the topic of English acquisition for migrants. Rodriguez shares his past experiences as a Mexican-American whom had attended public schooling in Sacramento, California during his childhood years. The purpose of bilingual education is to allow foreign speakers to communicate in their “family language” at school to develop skills before maneuvering into standardized classes. His bitter interpretation of this…

The Benefits of Bilingualism Being bilingual means being able to use two languages effectively in four skills such as reading, writing, speaking and listening. Because of the demanding of English language in almost every aspect of life since English language is one of the global languages, there are a lot of people who are willing to learn English as a second language to improve their life. However, learning second language is not limited to English only, but also there are different languages…

There is an increasing interest in learning foreign languages as a way to communicate with different people around the world. Consequently, the amount of bilingual people has been increasing. The UNESCO (2005) estimates that approximately half of the world population is bilingual and fairly does not exist any country in which the bilingualism is not evidenced. On the other hand, people who are bilingual possess higher malleability and flexibility than the monolingual people (UNESCO, 2005).…

Bilingual education has been a very controversial topic since the 1970’s when the civil rights movement had already passed and the thought of integration was becoming more welcoming. However, there have always been some people against the bilingual education movement and the implementation of programs in the school systems. The views of the American people have always been important because we live in a country where the voice of the people is what makes up the country. For that reason, the…