"Disadvantages of bilingual education" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 5 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Academic Benefits of Bilinguals When it comes to the academic benefits of bilingual education amid students‚ it has been pointed out that grade three students who were taken through bilingual education from their kindergarten level of education did not perform in the same way Spanish-speaking students who started in English-only programs did in their class tests (Carlson &Meltzof‚ 2008). Spanish speaking children performed exceptionally better. However‚ as the same students advanced in their

    Premium Education High school Teacher

    • 456 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    mine‚ I am endlessly thankful to my parents. They provided me with such a bilingual education that will benefit me in several ways throughout my life. Languages are a door to the world. Languages open our eyes towards other cultures. Languages let us interact with people of different nationalities and therefore provide us with huge opportunities throughout our career‚ whatever we choose it to be. Bilingual education must be strengthened in the United States. Schools must emphasize teaching

    Premium Second language Language Foreign language

    • 1793 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    principal in a Spanish class‚ learning about the culture of that language is almost equally as important. If you do not understand a culture‚ you can never fully understand its language. Therefore‚ knowing the significance and effectiveness of bilingual education and the fundamental characteristics of the Latino community is a perfect way to begin a journey into the depths of the Spanish language and the culture surrounding it. To begin‚ before high school‚ I knew next-to-nothing about the Hispanic

    Premium Hispanic Spanish language Hispanic and Latino Americans

    • 1872 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    analysis for the Bilingual Education Attitudes Survey theorizes that items in the survey have a strong correlation‚ which demonstrates evidence for construct validity. Measuring both the convergent and discriminant validity supports this theory because in Table 1‚ there is a very strong positive correlation between the first administration (r= .91) and a strong positive correlation with the second administration (r= .86)‚ in relation to the previously validated bilingual education scale. Moreover

    Premium Statistics Statistical significance Standard deviation

    • 387 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Critical Thinking Growing up bilingual is perceived to be a compelling account of what it means to come of age in a very economically but linguistically cultural context. Bilingualism is an integral part of any family life as well as a core aspect in producing identity in the community. However‚ children are perceived to be less preoccupied with growing up bilingual that with the notion of surviving (Zentella‚ 1997). And so‚ to heighten bilingualism in children and the NYPR community‚ there is need

    Premium

    • 538 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    they may have come from can be very useful to know. A school’s bilingual educators or resources in the community should be able to help with the knowledge you will need to make sure their classroom teacher and school know how to address that child’s specific needs (AdLit‚ 2015). One of the big barriers when working with ELL parents is language. There are some ways to combat this issue. A teacher needs to do his/her best to find a bilingual

    Premium

    • 675 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Immersion or Bilingual Education? One in every nine students today speaks a native language other than English‚ and it has been predicted that within the next twenty years‚ non-English speaking students will become as common as one in every four students (Goldenberg 10). This raises a question of how to give students the best education while helping them learn English. There are two basic forms of education used in schools today for English language learners (ELLs)‚ English immersion and bilingual programs

    Premium Second language Multilingualism English language

    • 1651 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Best Essays

    An Effective Assessment Plan for a Bilingual Early Learning Program: Integrating Montessori‚ High/Scope‚ and Constructivist approaches from a Leadership and Personal Point of View Adriana Ferrari University of Calgary Summary Montessori‚ High Scope‚ and recent constructivist theories are properly integrated in this paper in order to create an effective assessment plan in a two-way bilingual early educational program. Montessori Method promotes the 21st Century Competencies such

    Premium Education Educational psychology School

    • 3687 Words
    • 15 Pages
    Best Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Bili Bilingual Education: A Life-Long Advantage Alexa Adams It is concerning to see the U.S. continue to academically fall behind countries like China and Finland. The Program for International Student Assessment or PISA‚ is an international standardized test taken by 15 year-olds in developing countries. The U.S.‘s Secretary of State‚ Arne Duncan (2010)‚ was disappointed in the results‚ “The United States came in 23rd or 24th in most subjects. We can quibble‚ or we can face

    Premium Second language Multilingualism Language

    • 2760 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Bilingual Education in the United States can be defined as “a program that seeks to permit non-English speaking children (many from lower-class homes) to use their ‘family language’ as the language of school” (Rodriguez 256). In other words‚ it is a method of education that suggests that a child whose native language is not English should learn English in institutions while being instructed in classes in his or her home language as well. This form of teaching has been a strong point of controversy

    Premium

    • 1283 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 50