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saying. If that was you, most likely you would feel uncomfortable and out of the ordinary. Throughout immigrants lives, some of them need to make big decisions such as moving to America. Both men, women, and children need to learn new ways of speaking english, trying to fit in, and becoming comfortable talking to other people. Immigrants don’t always feel the “happy and perfect” America they were thinking about when they moved here. They…

As a kid I grew up around Spanish and English, being bilingual has helped a lot I life in communicating with family, friends and even strangers because being Hispanic most don’t know English or don’t like to speak English. English had become my first language then Spanish because of school. I grew up speaking Spanish at home but it was not fluent at first it was more English with a few Spanish words here and there, today that would be considered Spanglish but it wasn’t even that. When it came to…

personality. As some authors mentions in their literary pieces which shows that the character is in search of their true identity. In the following literary work “Blue Winds Dancing” by Thomas Whitecloud, “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, and “The Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes in which the characters have struggled in order to find their identity. In “Blue Winds Dancing”, the narrator who moved from Wisconsin to California for his studies is coming back home for Christmas. As the…

feel distant from people. I can see where Hoffman would be confused trying to learn a “cold” English language, because eve with years of experience writing and speaking the language, I still don’t understand some of the rules of English. In some places of the passage, Hoffman states that she misses how in Polish, she could call people names and it would be taken lightly and forgotten, whereas in English people would be offended if someone called them an idiot. I sometimes get the same feeling…

My parents met and married in Mexico City, and a few years later they had me. When I had just turned one, my parents packed up our family, and we traveled thousands of miles to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Then five years after we moved, I became a big sister of twin boys. My family is a mixture of Mexican and American citizens, but we believe in the importance in taking pride of our native culture. My parents made sure that my brothers and I knew Spanish, but they not only made sure we could speak it but…

He is originally from Honduras, and lives in the United States for the past four months. Him and his family are living illegally in the U.S., but that does not impede an illegal immigrant child from attending school in the U.S. Juan cannot speak English to communicate, this lack of communication creates tensions between him and his peers in school. His peers are taking his silence and lack of communication wrong, and they began to bully Juan. Juan went to his school counselor, this learner, to…

As an adult, a wife, a mother and a librarian, I practice written language every day. At no time had anyone raised attention to my writing style, I was positive I communicated properly. I was sure I practised correct grammar and punctuation consistently. My only concerns with writing had been my confidence with abstaining from being 'wordy' together with applying proper referencing. 'Wordiness' is part of my colloquial language, ‘long-winded’ as my family says. It occurred likewise in my written…

In recent years, bilingual communication has become widespread all over the world because of some factors such as globalization, technological advances and migration. It might express that people who speak different languages use various ways to communicate with each other. Commonly, this bilingual conversation is full of language strategies that enhance meaning. One of these language strategies is the use of code-switching (Velásquez, 2010). Over the last twenty-five years the study of…

Education Act of 1968, has been one of the most important act throughout the history of Bilingual Education. (Mazanares, 1988), stated that the act is seen as one of the first official federal recognition of the needs and rights of students with limited English speaking abilities. The act has gone through four reauthorizations, 1974,1978,1984 and 1988, with amendments based on a change for students and society. Senator Ralph Yarborough introduced a bill in 1967, the bill proposed to assist…

but for many centuries to come. The reformation occured during the 16th Century. It created a schism within the Roman Catholic Church to create different groups of Christians, not connected to the Roman Catholic Church or the Pope. This led to the English establish the Church of England, which is considered the "Middle way" between Catholicism and Calvanism. This was credited to King Henry VIII. The Catholic Church had been the centre of power throughout Europe for many centuries. Its and…