Second grade

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…

percent or more of the day. There are two mutual differences of dual immersion programs: 90/10 and 50/50. In a 90/10 model, the second language is taught to students for about ninety percent of the day starting in kindergarten (Whitacre, 2015). With each added school year, English is amplified by ten percent until students obtain instruction for fifty percent of the day in the second language. As soon as students obtain fifty percent of their instruction…

the case. The children at this particular school in Salt Lake City, Utah, are able to learn a second way to communicate. This language immersion school teaches the children a second language of either Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, or Portuguese along with the standard curriculum.…

Introduction The ability to communicate in more than one language has become really important, and not only in the professional world. According to UNESCO, learning another language opens up access to other value systems and other ways of interpreting the world, while encouraging intercultural understanding and even contributing to reducing xenophobia. The globalization of the 21st century’s economy, international business mergers and the growth of technology, have contributed to the need to…

Much research showed the benefits of bilingualism in many aspects. The most important benefit is bilingual children can use languages for traveling, learning the other culture, making new friends, and working. Bilinguals have better social understanding than monolinguals. Also, bilinguals show cognitive advantages. Research showed bilinguals have a little better performance than monolinguals on tasks that involve switching between activities and inhibiting previous learned responses (Bialystok,…

In this 21st century society, it is absolutely essential that every child is fully equipped with the ability to speak, read and write using the international language— English. Anyone unable to do these skills would enormously face a limitation in this information- flooded world. In order to speak, read and write using the English language, one has to acquire phonemic awareness. According to Dewitz and Pearson (1997), phonemic awareness is the understanding that language is composed of small…

makes expanding there much easier than to a non-English speaking country. Columbia International College is one of Canada’s top private boarding schools. It offers academic programs from grades 9 – 12 as well as Junior Middle School programs (JMS). It offers English as a Second Language (ESL) programs to assist the second language English speakers to learn better. Columbia International College offers a Scientifically Tested Total Care Education System. It is made to meet the specific academic,…

Language immersion is a method of teaching language, usually a second language, in which the target language is used as both the content of the curriculum and the medium of instruction. According to Baker (2006; cited by: Pacific Policy Research Center, 2010), there are three major levels of language immersion education divided according to age: • early immersion, from age 5 or 6, • middle immersion, from age 9 or 10, and • late immersion, from ages 11 and 14. In programs that make use of…

The United States is a country made up of many different racial groups, with White Americans being the largest and Hispanic and Latino Americans being the second largest. Due to the increasing amount of Hispanics and Latinos immigrating to the U.S., I feel as though the U.S. needs to enforce the Spanish language into education, along with the English language. Allowing students to learn Spanish at a younger age will allow them to become proficient in both English and Spanish. In order to…

advantages in teaching listening. So songs are excellent means through which children have fun and at the same time acquire language. Here we would like to prove the effect teaching listening by using songs by gathering the data from the seventh grade students of SMPN 7 Banjarmasin by giving a…