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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Some would argue that being a parent or a child existing in a bilingual environment may be only of an invaluable merit. This is true‚ with the assumption that both parties have similar expectations or do not have any that would conflict them and there is no the outside or a so called family pressure. Let us dwell to some extent on the merits. To begin with‚ the unquestionable advantage children would experience is the exposure to double language environment. If the learning process is not
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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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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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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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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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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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Is Bilingual Education an effective way for our students to be learning in our schools today? This is a question that has been asked in this country for many years. It has been an issue of controversy for many years. Many people believe that Bilingual Education is a modern day issue that has recently been a focus point in our country. Bilingual Education and all of its components has been a part of our education system for over 100 years and since then the battle of how to teach it and what the effects
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LCC Sandra Luz Martínez Navedo sandy.navedo@gmail.com Types of Bilingual Education According to Baker (1993)‚ there are ten types of bilingual education which are divided in weak and strong forms of education for bilingualism. I will pinpoint the characteristics that define each type of education. Submersion Education is a weak form of education for bilingualism which focuses in using majority language instruction during the day by both‚ teachers and students
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Bilingual education is unquestionably a controversial issue. There are several people and organizations in this country‚ who‚ for various reasons are opposed to bilingual education. In today’s society regarding education there has been a big issue about whether bilingual education should be taught in classrooms for immigrant students who do not speak English. Bilingual education began about 1967 as an effort to help immigrants‚ (mostly Spanish speakers) to learn English (Hoover‚ Bilingual Education
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