Second language

While some success is apparent in reaching goals of employment and English language abilities, overall indicators suggest many refugee households need assistance with job placement and language training beyond their first year in the U.S.(Shaw & Poulin, 2015). Actually, as soon as they arrive, acculturation to a new society is difficult for all immigrant groups, regardless of age and country of origin (Baffoe, Cheung, & Asimeng-Boahene, 2012). The critical issues are involved in the multiple…

to all countries and their citizens. Most Australian schools give the chance for students to learn different languages or more about their own. There is a wide range of languages students are able to learn such as Italian, Chinese, Japanese, French and many other languages. Not only do they learn the language but also their culture and traditions. Through this, learning different languages, gives the opportunity and enables us to travel to other countries, communicate with different people and…

we should teach cursive because in the future you will have to sign a bill or a check. And you will have to sign it in cursive and some people. Might still need a little help with cursive and then that will help a lot in the future. The reason we should still teach cursive is that you might have a little sibling that needs help with cursive. then they might ask you and then you would have to tell them to ask the mom or dad. If we don’t keep teaching cursive then some children might miss…

should learn another language, yet at the same time they are emphasizing that it is normal for this kind of learning to not take place at home. The school starts by making it seem like language is a natural thing that kids learn just by being exposed to it. The teach herself says they are teaching mandarin only using it as a tool making it seem as though kids will just pick up the mandarin as they learn other things. The school believes in acquiring not learning of language. There is also a…

Ricardo describes his childhood as a child of Mexican immigrant parents studying in an English school in America, where he had problems in communicating at school because he did not know the “public language”, English. At first, he was shy and timid at school because he was feeling uncomfortable with English, but with his parents’ and teacher’s help he “raised his hand to volunteer an answer”, from that day he “moved very far from the disadvantaged child”(288). He then started feeling as an…

other and no be a different person . Children of immigrant often feed they must lose their cultural identity because they lose their language, change their appearance dress, and change their traditions. Went the immigrant child star to learn English they start to learn a different language, the year be passing and they start to forget some of the primary language. And all is done teacher speak English and the students have to be communicated with then that is a reason they have to be learning…

1. Considering what Nicholas Carr, author of the article, illustrates, what are the gains of new technology use? Technology has many advantages. It offers equality because others are not judged, most people have it, and everyone has an opportunity to learn from it. For example, now people like Friedrich Nietzsche can continue to do what they love even if they are disabled. It is cheaper and more widespread. Since it is easier to access, technology has increased the amount of reading people do.…

people. They therefore taught their children to speak the same language to maintain their relationship with the Americans. Ever since I started to talk, I used the English language to communicate with the whole household who speaks the same language and with other people until the time came that my mother had to get me to live under their roof. I started to go to school where I was amazed to find out that my classmates use different language from what I am using.…

Children were taught what they needed to know with the emphasis of leaning on a teacher for direction. I considered it a stricter view of essentialism because the teaching style did leave out the students going into deeper thought. The second thing that I related to class, was the thought that a teacher needs to know how to teach a wide variety of backgrounds. This class was all kids with a special need and a teacher needs to be able to know how to handle her students in a way that is…

education has its many benefits that help students be more confident on who they are as a person and who they are culturally. Bilingualism is a huge part of a student’s identity especially if they have grown up in mixed cultures and knows other languages than English. As a future educator, I will strongly encourage students to express themselves and to have no shame on…