is not only true for adults but also for children. For children ages 8-18 is estimated that including when they are multitasking children consume an average of 7 hours and 11 minutes of screen media time per day. (Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood ‚ 2016) This book discussed the theory that by remaining sedentary we are not only hurting our bodies but also limiting the potential of our brains. Spark talks about the relationship of exercise and the brain and how it can make a difference in
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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 result in lower and lower performance in school SEI programs provide radically different results: A Washington Post study revealed that many immigrant children participating in SEI programs are at the top of their classes after only a few years (Geyer‚ “Schools Should Not Employ Bilingual Education”). As seen time and time again
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To my question asking what the bilingual students’ strengths are‚ Melissa answered that she appreciates the diversity that her “ELLs(English language learners)” bring into the classroom including different experiences in their home countries and different background knowledge as the strengths that the students have. She said that the ELL’s mainstream English-speaking peers are very curious on their ELL peers and love to hear about their countries and why they are here. On the other hand‚ what Melissa
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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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opportunity to interview Ms. Maria‚ a third-grade bilingual teacher with a little over ten years of experience‚ and the mother of my classmate. Ms. Maria just like her students has English as her second language but began her journey at the age of seventeen. This experience allows her to be more compassionate and understanding with her students’ situations as she went through the same thing but at a later age. I personally have never been enrolled in a bilingual class so this interview was insightful to
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English in the Indian Subcontinent Just as in the Caribbean‚ the English Language arrived in South Asia as a result of colonisation. Unlike its history in the Caribbean‚ however‚ English has always co-existed in the Indian subcontinent alongside thousands of local languages. So for most of the population‚ it has only ever been a second language. The origins of English in India The British first arrived in India in the early 1600s and soon established trading posts in a number of cities under
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feel like they had anything in common. After the administrators at the school corrected the error and placed him in the bilingual program‚ he said that everyone was easier to talk to and he had more in common with them. Gibbons (2015) states that “Learners need models of new languages […]”‚ which often comes in the form of interaction with teachers for students in a one-way bilingual program (p. 28). For Gaby‚ the mainstream program might have been a good opportunity to interact with good models of
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Bilingual in America {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} Bilingual in America {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} Shonese Warrington {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} AED/200 October 18‚ 2009 Kimberly D. Jackson Bilingual in America There are many ongoing debates on whether or not our children should learn more than one language. I feel that it is imperative in today’s society to know more than one language. Knowing more than one language opens up so many
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one another. In today’s society it seems that knowing multiple languages is almost a necessity. The United States is largely monolingual. Only about 15-20% of Americans consider themselves bilingual‚ compared to 56 percent of Europeans surveyed in 2006 by the European Commission.The advantages of being bilingual is practically never ending if you think about it. We live in a multilingual universe. This universe depends on being able to find and build the bonds and bridges that connect us across our
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The First World War spawned a great variety of war novels and memoirs. German novels such as All Quiet on the Western Front and British memoirs by Robert Graves‚ Siegfried Sassoon‚ and Edmund Blunden helped to create a mythology of "disillusionment." I will survey several German and British memoirs in this essay‚ making comparisons between them with a view to drawing some conclusions as to how German and British soldiers sustained morale. Ernst Jünger’s The Storm of Steel is a unique and interesting
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