INTRODUCTION This report presents an interview with a bilingual called H.D . H.D. is a daughter of a Turkish immigrant family who lived in Australia for 12 years .H.D. gives examples from her personal life about how she became bilingual background ‚ the challenges of second language acquisition ‚ benefits and the role of languages in her life. H.D was asked the following questions : (a) Could you please explain how you became bilingual? (b) Could you describe the bilingual environment you grew up in
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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
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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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Working at an elementary school has giving me the opportunity to choose from many teachers to get this work completed but I chose to interview one of the best teachers in this school. I interviewed a teacher at the school where I currently work as a Bilingual Teacher Assistant. The teachers name is Adriana Sanchez‚ she currently teaches 4th grade at Manuel Jara Elementary school located in Fort Worth‚ Texas. She decided to become a teacher because all her family is in the education field. Her husband
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THE BILINGUAL RESEARCH JOURNAL Winter 1996‚ Vol. 20‚ No. 1‚ pp. 45-53 TEACHER ATTITUDES TOWARD THE PRINCIPLES OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND TOWARD STUDENTS ’ PARTICIPATION IN BILINGUAL PROGRAMS: SAME OR DIFFERENT? Fay H. Shin California State University‚ Stanislaus Stephen Krashen University of Southern California Abstract 794 elementary and secondary teachers filled out a questionnaire probing attitudes toward bilingual education. While support for the principles underlying bilingual education
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States. According to the United States Census Bureau‚ inhabitants of the United States speak a total of 382 different languages. Language adds to the diversity of the country. Due to the various types of languages spoken in the United States‚ being bilingual has become a necessity. Parents play a major role in their children’s education. Encouraging students to learn another language can become extremely beneficial for the student in the long-run. Having the ability to speak multiple languages makes
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Bilingual Essay What does bilingual means? A bilingual is involving or using of two different languages. Nowadays‚ most people are actually bilingual. The most used and common language is English which is the universal language. The majority off the world’s population can speak and understand English language. Being able to understand and speak two different languages is a talent. It is an extra factor to one’s personality‚ and it could also help one to build-up one’s self-esteem and confidence
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people who hear me speak Spanish (my mother tongue is English) that I am fluent in it. That alone should be enough for me to call myself bilingual. However‚ I have encountered numerous situations over the years where I felt completely lost in Spanish. So‚ if I am so fluent‚ why would this happen to me? The answer is a simple but often overlooked one. Bilinguals usually acquire and use their second ( or third or fourth) language for specific purposes and when they get outside of this specific linguistic
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Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood Not having really pondered over bilingual education before‚ I must admit I did not have a formed opinion concerning this issue. Of course‚ I was aware of the ‘phenomenon’ of bilingual children but I have never spent much time reflecting whether they should receive formal education in their mother tongue or whether they should learn in the language of their present surroundings. The decision is not an easy one to make‚ but I have set my mind against the
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University‚ published a preface called “Bilingual lives‚ bilingual experience” in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development‚ in which she claims that a bilingual faces some problems in expressing and distinguishing between emotions on both languages. She gives the example of her Polish-English background and supports that often people who are bilingual make confusions regarding the cultural and deeper meaning of emotions. However‚ I argue that a bilingual learns to perceive the world in a
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