Second grade

young learner to the end phase of young learner. A theory of language acquisition about learning language stated that learning language will become natural and easy if the age of children is young, early is better. Children should start learning a second language at early stage in order to help them from the procedure and acquire as much as possible from the foreign language. Basically, young learners are children who take a new step or level in learning process. Because of they are still…

from the two language backgrounds are integrated for all of their instructional time. In other programs, students are integrated for the majority of their content-area instruction but segregated to receive additional language instruction in their second-language (Adelman-Reyes & Kleyn, 2010). Other programs segregate students from the two language backgrounds for the majority of their instructional time (which may be through one or two languages), and then integrate students for a small portion…

of domains (2011, p. 3-8). Her academically-related language competence was highly developed during her education in the parochial school because the school curricula was only in English. Although she learned the language when she was in the fourth grade, her conversational competence was at a low level since she did not use English in the street. Baker describes such competence as a surface fluency (2011, p. 12). In spite of this, she was able to gain language proficiency using complex contexts…

Increasing proficiency in a student’s native language is beneficial in acquiring a second language and does not hinder the process of learning English. According to authors Zelasko and Antunez, Bilingualism produces many benefits. Students can develop better intellectually, transfer academic skills from one language to another, retain…

The school that I decided to do my EL service paper on is San Juan Unified School District which served in Arden-Arcade, Carmichael, Orangevale, Citrus Heights, Fair Oaks, parts of Rancho Cordova, and parts of Sacramento. In their district they value diversity and it is a valuable asset that strengthens and enriches their community. EL students belong to their community and it is their mission to educate and inspire EL students to succeed. EL students are placed into their neighborhood schools.…

Americans earn more than monolingual Americans and can compete better in the workforce. If applying at an American business and the applicant speaks more than one language, they already have a leg up on all their competition. Due to the fact that a second language is not strictly taught in American schooling, multilingualism is getting harder to find and American businesses welcome applicants who are fluent in two or more languages. Especially in the business world, multilingualism is a much…

Carolina in school, if being bilingual affects her development, also the biculture she is a part of. In my interaction with Carolina, we talked about her school performance. She said she was doing fairly well on all of them (Her father had shown me her grades…

recognizable. It was also noted that bilingual students were less able to distinguish the various comparisons then the adult speakers. Some vowel sounds gave the bilinguals trouble but for the most part two differing vowels could be distinguished. The second research question was answered as follows; there was no significant difference between the adult and child identification skills, although children did need more time while answering questions. The final understanding of the article was that…

write and communicate well." This might apply for the native language, in my case Arabic, but since I learned other languages (English, German, French), I can say from my personal experience that this is not always the case. Rather, when it is a second language spoken, listening and reading are first developed, then slowly writing and lastly speaking. This order is due to the fact that we first learn the language by listening and reading, saving what we have learned in our receptive memory.…

global status, a language needs to fulfil two requirements. First it should receive due official recognition in the international community. Second it needs an expanding number of non-native users.…