Why is it important to be bilingual? Answer: Being bilingual allows you to communicate better with other people. It can aid you in school‚ business‚ travel or everyday life. Many people find that learning a second language also helps them improve their first. Phonetics‚ grammar points‚ and other things that native speakers usually take for granted‚ you will start to notice in your own language after learning about them in another. It’s important to be bilingual because it knowing two different
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The article “By Bilingual Acquisition”‚ Genesee (2006) explains how children learn and acquire languages. There are a lot of children who live in different environments from their mother languages such as Arabic. They are exposed to another language‚ and it may affect them. There are also careful parents and educated people who think negatively about childhood bilingualism. This phenomenon is common in some communities where some children grow up with their mother tongue‚ and the parents try to speak
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students by developing bilingual education. Bilingual education refers to the academic instruction of two languages‚ which include the students’ native language and their second language. In the past few decades‚ there has been a debate over the implementation of bilingual education and many organizations have opposed bilingual
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studied the advantage of being open-minded and self confident in an immigration context. They collected data from 102 polish individuals ranging from the age of 17-58 years old. The participants were evaluated by personality and socio-biographical questionnaire. They found that openness and self-esteem were significantly beneficial to the use of a second language. Again‚ both Travis and Leticia immigrated to another country. While Travis was temporarily‚ their ability to take advantage of their situation
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We live in a world where more people from other countries are moving to new ones‚ knowing different languages can help the world be seen in a different light. It can also open windows for jobs that allow working with other countries. Being bilingual means that a person can speak two of the roughly 6‚500 known languages fluently. If a child is taught a foreign language in the early stages of life‚ it allows them to understand subjects faster than kids that are monolinguals‚ one that speaks one language
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– Benefits of Being Bilingual: Every person knows one language‚ which is the language that you learn during your childhood. In “My Spanish Standoff‚” Kuntz writes‚ “my daughter is frustrated by the fact that I’m bilingual and have purposely declined to teach her to speak Spanish‚ my native tongue.” The information given as well as the information in “English Only‚ but Where” and “English-Only Classrooms‚” has been brought to my attention that being bilingual has advantages. Language is very important
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Do Spanish-speaking immigrants have rights to bilingual education? With the increase of the Latino population in New York City during the 1960s caused the school system to be faced with a new issue of language rights. My topic of bilingual education is important because with the increasing presence of Latinos it brings an increasing number of Limited English Proficient Students to the country. Being a first or second generation Latino having a bilingual education makes a difference in one life by causing
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States 1971-2011”)‚ a marked growth that can be attributed in part to the great influx of immigrants from South and Central America. The struggle to assimilate into American communities presents great difficulty to these people‚ especially children; for those children who lack proficient English skills‚ it is
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Movements for bilingual education rose in 1974 with the Equal Education Opportunity Act and Bingual Education Act‚ which ordered federally funded schools to meet special educational needs for students not proficient in English. Unfortunately‚ dropout rates and lack of English-language proficiency alarmed the states that these bilingual programs were not efficent. Because of this‚ arguments between English-only advocates and supporters of bilingual educations emerged. Articles such as the New York
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fear of violating the principle of “separation of powers.” The Higher Education Act (1965) raised federal aid to public and private universities‚ granted scholarships and low-interest loans to students‚ and set up a National Teachers Corps. The Bilingual Education Act (1968) helped local school districts address the English-language needs of
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