Topic: Bilingual Education General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about what bilingual education is and how it is important. Thesis Statement: Bilingual education means instruction in two languages. It refers to a range of classroom strategies that include instruction in the student’s primary language. I. Introduction: A. Attention Getter: In 1998‚ California voters passed Proposition 227‚ an initiative that limits non-English language instruction for students who are
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this experience of feeling excluded‚ I want to connect with others whether it be those who come from different or same ethnic group‚ social class‚ sexuality‚ and so on‚ to come together and share our personal experiences of being a minority. In the Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC)‚ I hope to meet new people outside my community and even those who I have not met in the Sacred Heart Prep community as well and learn from one another. No‚ I have not participated in SDLC in previous years
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Being multilingual or bilingual is the ability to speak more than one language‚ for some this can be a huge advantage as it provides more diversity and therefore can be a skill that both the workforce and college admissions look at when determining the best applicants. It is no surprise that having the ability to speak more than one language can come as an advantage‚ however what advantages does speaking more than one language offer? Parents are often concerned that using a non-community language
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My idea of interest is the importance of being bilingual. Our schools in America don’t focus on a teaching kids a second language. As a Hispanic‚ and American citizen‚ being bilingual is very important to me. I learned Spanish and English as a kid‚ and this had led me to have better communication‚ and has opened more opportunities for me. I chose this topic because it will raise awareness and lead many Americans to better communicate with the Hispanic community. The American society needs to adapt
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Quyen Dao Writing 5 Advances to being bilingual Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an globalized world. Many countries in the World has demanded that every student has to take foreign language. Today‚ many companies around the World is also require their employees have to know more than one language. In recent years‚ scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse
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All university students should study abroad for at least one semester Introduction With the reform and open-door policy carried out‚ China has taken on a new look. China is developing rapidly in economic and political‚ The Chinese people become richer and richer. More and more students prefer to study abroad. It is benefit for students to study abroad‚ however everything have two sides. A Studying abroad is good for finding a good job a We can learn a good English b Acquire the different
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In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ted talk titled “We Should All Be Feminists”‚ Adichie discusses the subject matter of what the word feminists means and how feminism still affects her life today. In one of the most important points of Adichie’s speech‚ she discusses how she was led to believe that being a feminist was a bad thing‚ and how boys are put on a higher pedestal than women from the many examples she gave‚ like how a boy in her primary school was given the position of class monitor‚ just for
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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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development of English language skills resolves to excessive time spent in BE programs‚ as a symptom of the untreated dependency of students on their native language. For instance‚ the public school system of Brooklyn‚ New York faced a lawsuit from 150 parents‚ claiming that their children had been segregated into BE programs for as many as six years (Porter‚ “The Case against Bilingual Education”). This is the serious and worrying problem that BE presents to our immigrants and ELLs. Continued segregation will
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I interviewed a student at Wedgewood Park International Middle School in Milwaukee. I did it on March 6th in the morning. The interview with Gaby (a pseudonym) lasted about thirty minutes during his reading intervention time‚ so he would not miss curriculum instruction time. He is an 8th grader who grew up in Puerto Rico. He attended school in Puerto Rico‚ but he said it was very different than it is here. He also said that the culture was friendlier there. He described walking down the sidewalk
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