“Philosophy of Bilingual Education” sounds so official‚ so academic‚ and a bit intimidating as well. How and when does a teacher form a philosophy of bilingual education? That question has caused me to dig into my past and ponder each of my teaching experiences as well as the opinions of respected loved ones. I have also taken into consideration the philosophies and opinions of other teachers I have known and spoken to on this matter. My Experience Teaching LEP Students After graduating from
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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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language. My first point is learning foreign language has a wonderful effect on human’s brain. This is because the research which looked at brain densities of bilingual people. There were three types of people‚ some of them speak only one language‚ and some of them learned a second language before 5 years old‚ and others became bilingual between ages 10 and 15 . This research was carried out by Mecelli (Micheli) who is London’s Department of imaging Neuroscience researcher. Brain imaging showed
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continued‚ as teachers explored different approaches to teaching bilingual students. New teacher training programs and student assessments were available. But because bilingual education was implemented before an adequate infrastructure of teacher education programs‚ or material existed‚ program designers were confused about what bilingual education meant. Still‚ the bilingual education movement grew. After 1987‚ the types of bilingual education programs that were funded expanded to include English
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between monolingual and bilingual children was Erika Hoff’s observations in childhood concentration‚ which was published in her book “Childhood Bilingualism”. Hoff explained that when a bilingual child learns multiple languages‚ it changes how that child uses their cognitive resources. Furthermore‚ bilingual children often switch their mental dialogue from their native language to their second known language. It is this switching ability according to Erika Hoff that enables bilingual children to improve
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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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they were not afraid to take risks. Since they had lower anxiety‚ they had a higher self-confidence leading to a higher motivation to learn a new language. A similar study conducted by Ozanska-Ponikwia and Dewaele (2012)‚ 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
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stigmatized statuses that are presented in the world that they start to become normal in everyday life. By normal‚ I mean that stigmas such of race‚ gender‚ and sexuality are generalized in ways that people forget the hurt behind these oppressed groups. Being an African American woman‚ I have two stigmas against me from the beginning. Without even getting to know who I am as a person‚ I am judged by the stereotypes that have been presented towards my race and gender from the past. The population that I
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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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Transgressing Monolingualism and Bilingual Dualities: Translanguaging Pedagogies Ofelia García‚ Nelson Flores and Heather Homonoff Woodley A. Yiakoumetti (ed.). Harnessing Linguistic Variation for Better Education. Peter Lang. Throughout the world language minorities are most often educated in schools that have been designed for language majorities. Usually they are educated only through the medium of the dominant state language. But even when they are given the opportunity to be educated
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