Second grade

students to communicate efficiently as they progress in american culture. Collins also claims that bilingual educators are blind to the issue that easing immigrants as they come to america through bilingual education, helping them receive adequate grades in comparison to other students, gives them short term results and has a major effect of long term abilities that can be detrimental the nation (Collins, “Bilingual Educations Does Not Help Students”). The immigration surge in america today may…

power, especially when people know what you are saying. It makes me curious how schools devise English as a Second Language programs, and if language is truly taught in a productive manner. Watching a movie in a foreign language was a very eye opening experience. It was something I had never done before, and I am glad that I took the time to do so, and not only because it was for a grade. Such a simple task has allowed me to be more understanding and will hopefully allow me to be an even better…

study English in the first year of elementary school, in Italy. At that time I was only six years old and I do not remember how I studied in school. In middle school it was mandatory to learn two foreign languages. English was the first one, while the second one was either Spanish or German. I chose Spanish because it was closer to Italian, my first language. I had the same teacher for the English and Spanish classes, and as far as I can remember she did not speak in the target language. The way…

Every person has a place they enjoy: a classroom, at home, or a club where they love to spend their time. People do not use these places for social interaction only, but that it gives them a true sense of joy and love being there. My place is the ASL classroom in Founders Hall, at the University of North Florida (UNF). The class is not only one of my favorites, but it has truly shaped the culture of my life. The class focuses on Deaf culture and the budding popularity of learning American Sign…

Name: Jette Lykke Møhl, Silkeborg Ungdomsskole Age Group: 4th to 10th grade Title and competence area: • Integrating the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking in English • Kompenenceområde 2: Sprogtilegnelse og fremmedsproglig kommunikation • Kompetenceområde 4: Fremmedsprogsdidaktik Name: Jette Lykke Møhl Age Group: 4th to 10th grade Title and competence area: • Integrating the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking in English • Kompenenceområde…

When I was still in the 7th grade, my middle school began to send me to the local high school to take classes because they did not offer a rigorous enough curriculum. This was in large part due to my school district lacking the funding to diversify the classes they offered. I was not the first student in my district to do so, in fact, there were a few students that I knew personally that had been sent to the high school while they were in middle school. I saw their frustration when they, as…

be hardwired to function better at tasks. Jim Cummins, of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, has written,”when the first language is not well developed, then the academic and linguistic performance in the second language is degraded,” (Cummins). Mr.Cummins has a good point, how is one supposed to excel in a language while this individual's other language is weak. This ideology can be applied to school subjects for example; in order to take a physics…

English as New Language (ENL) students benefit from direct reading instruction. Most schools and classroom teachers are not prepared to meet the increasing needs of the ENL’s. According to the National Education Association only 2.5 percent of the teachers who instruct students have a degree in ESL and about 12 percent have 8 or more hours of training to support their instruction (Denise McKeon, 2005). There is a rise in the number of the ENL population and most of the teachers that are…

peers, but from teachers as well. The fact that is so often forgotten is that these children are not "stupid" or "slow" but are working on becoming proficient in a second language at such a young age. In comparison, it would be almost comical to see a group of "English Only" adults survive a day in a native French or Spanish 3rd grade class. A critical question: when does the term "modernization" expire? What was considered modern at the turn of the 20th century certainly does not remain true…

social functions when communicating in a foreign and second language classroom (McMillan & Rivers 2010). This article covers a survey that was done that includes twenty-nine native English speaker teachers at a university in Japan. The native English speakers were required to use the target language that is a key detail of the foreign language learning environment. Researchers believe that the first language can be beneficial in enhancing a second language learning and the learner’s emerging…