Second language

comes to the topic of a foreign language being taught at an early age, specifically to children. Most of us will readily agree that it should, because it’s teaching children how to comprehend a lot more. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of is it too much for children to remember and understand at an early age? Whereas some are convinced that children’s brains can absorb a lot more information, which is the reason why foreign language should be taught to young…

“Language is power. If you cannot understand, or be understood you have no power. You are at the mercy of everyone.” - Rudat 1995. Introducing a second language to children throughout their educational careers’ is becoming a new, yet controversial, trend in America. With commodities such as technological advances, urbanization, and international trade, along with the influx of immigrants, there is a higher demand for languages in the workplace as well as public settings. Ultimately, the goal…

the year, students have not taken this test yet. I will say that my cooperating teacher did have a conversation about are ELLs taking standardized tests. According to research report by "College Board" called "Testing Accommodations for English Language Learners: A Review of State and District Policies" discourses that an aide is to read the passage, the questions,…

How does Anxiety affect Language Learning? For some students, dialect courses are the most uneasy courses that they take. A few educators have expressed worry over the measure of uneasiness present in dialect classes others considered the levels of dialect nervous among college understudies to alert and assess that up to one portion of all language students encounter weakening levels of dialect tension. In the large scale consideration, language learning settings seem, by all accounts, to be…

adapt to a new environment, it is important and useful to find some motivations that promote us to acquire the second language firstly and secondly cultivate a vision of culture co-existence and harmony that strengthen the cultural connection. This view is supported by Julie Traves in “The Church of Please and Thank You”, who presents some potential motivations to learn another language and Kwame Anthony Appiah in “The Shattered Mirror”, who also favors culture co-existence and harmony. Eva…

find that helping CLD students who are learning English as their second language also fits for what I plan for the future. With high schoolers, some of the students that just came to America would not understand English well. When students starts to learn English around the ages of 15-18 years old, it can be frustrating and difficult for them. One of the things that I would like to do is try to connect to the student’s language. I believe there if there is a way to connect with the students,…

Concerning Tibetan Language In order to fully understand the current state of Tibetan language, historical context of modern Tibet regarding cultural and language policies needs to be mentioned. More often, researchers on this particular subject opt for the “17-Point Agreement” inked between China and Tibet in 1951 as a milestone, since this serves as an initial legal basis upon which legitimacy of future policies are examined. The agreement clearly states that “the spoken and written language…

One way to address this problem is to require students to take two years of foreign language to graduate high school. By requiring two years it allows the student to become accustomed with the language; it also mirrors the minimum requirements for entry into college. According to François Grosjean, the author of Bilingual: Life and Reality, most of the world’s population is bilingual. While quantifying bilingualism is tricky, Grosjean reports these rough measures: Europe: 56% Great Britain: 38%…

children English but also teaching it in their primary language that isn’t English. Many parents have been opposed to the idea of their child learning a foreign language. Why you may ask? Some parents believe that by their child focusing on two languages it will pull away from the English language as well as delay the learning of the English language. However, this may be true but many parents fail to realize the benefits that speaking two languages hold, the role that bilingual education plays…

I felt very comfortable with both teachers and the students’. I believe any EL’ student is in need of constant support and positive reinforcement, so that he/she will eventually reach a cognitive, linguistic and social proficiency in the English language; and with this achievement, for the student to be able to adjust to any environment,…