Second Party System

There are millions of people worldwide who either play the guitar, or would like to play the guitar. There are equally as many people claiming to have the "miracle" training course that will have you "playing like the pros" in a week (or some other ridiculous time frame). That's impossible and here's why... What if I told you I had an 18 part video series that will teach you how to do brain surgery in 7 days or less. Would you buy it? Would you trust yourself to perform the surgery on another…

To my friends & family in Italy, I have only been in America for a few weeks now, it was a long hard journey to get to where I am now but I know it will all be worth it in the end. Leaving all of you in Italy was definitely the hardest part about all of this. After boarding a boat with not one friend or loved one, and being stuck there with them for a very, very long time it was difficult not to want to go back home to my family. But I knew that going to America was the right choice to be…

As a child, I lived with my mother who spoke to me in English, but every other weekend when I went to my father’s house, he would try to get me to speak in Spanish. My dad would speak to me in Spanish and only respond to me if I responded in Spanish. I use to hate this method as a child, but as I got older I realized how important it was for my father to do that. Now, I am appreciative that I am bilingual. I should be speaking more Spanish, but I guess my mother not speaking to me in Spanish…

Going into this class my thoughts of what an ELL was before reading Coehlo (2004) and Li, Myles, & Robinson (2012) was someone who had immigrated to Canada and English was not their first language. It is probably a common assumption among the majority of the population even though it is a wrong one. I also only viewed an ELL as someone who is initially learning the language, but as talked about in the lesson, the learning never really stops. I never would have viewed an individual who is a…

Bias #1, Page 171: “However, a CI can enable strong spoken language only when used with intensive auditory- oral exposure in extended, salient, and child-initiated interactions.6 Without a full linguistic and auditory experience, the effects of deafness- associated deprivation can derail the spoken language learning process before it begins.” (Mellon, N. K.) Author Nancy Mellon is currently the executive director at a non-profit agency providing several services for children who are deaf and…

poem in a sestina pattern, however giving her own spin off to it by incorporating Spanish words. In order for the message to be understood, Julia Alvarez places the audience in her shoes in order to recognize the difficulty of having English as a second language. Although most of the poem is English, there are a couple of Spanish words. This leaves the audience to feel lost or as if she is not getting the full message. Ironically that is how many bilingual people may feel when they are still…

Bilingualism is seen as being able to interact and connect with two different cultures. The development of Bilingualism begins at very young age, it become a form of identity among children and it creates this way of life that they consider normal. Being bilingual in America is knowing two different languages in most cases, Spanish and English. It is learning Spanish from their most likely uneducated parents and learning English from their surroundings along with perfecting the language through…

comprehensible input, affective, cognitive, and meta-cognitive strategies from the student. We must also validate the student’s culture and support their language for a minimum of 5 years. “An additive bilingual situation is where the addition of a second language and culture is unlikely to replace or displace the first language and culture” (Baker, 2001, pg. 58). Additive bilingual programs purpose is to educate the child…

then I thought That this school will change me completely.Watching the fifth graders walk by me with huge smiles.As I go into the office. Going into lincoln school holding my best Aditi's hand as we walked to be the fifth graders, fourth, third, second, then past the first-grade hallway then we get to the kindergarten hallway I leave aditi’s hand as I go into Mrs.Lamakies Class as Aditi walks into Mrs.teal Daubert's class.I despise that I knew none but then I felt it was time to make friends I…

Although it is true that there are downsides to being a bilingual child, the effect can in fact be made less severe. Bilingual children are more likely to develop a stutter, but a study conducted by Howell, Davis, and Williams suggests that “if a child uses a language other than English in the home, deferring the time when they learn English reduces the chance of starting to stutter and aids the chances of recovery later in childhood.” They added that “school performance was not affected with…