China should end compulsory military training for students of all ages. Do you remember the tough time in last year September. That we wearing the battle fatigues‚ standing under the heavy sun everyday half a month. We called it military training and the globe called ours military training as “toothbrush training”. Because everyone is taught to make the bed in the same way. Everyone is taught to place the toothbrush at the correct angle on a sink. I don’t know how boys feel‚ but in a girl’s eye
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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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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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the hardships of being bilingual. Teachers never realized how hard it was for me to follow and comprehend oral and written information just because of a slower process time due to being bilingual. I also took intense courses in Spanish while in school. I would rather characterize myself as a person of moral obligation and word. Once I set my mind on something I always do it. I always follow through on my promises be it cutting the grass for my church‚ or tutoring a bilingual child. I will show up
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The Canadian anthem “O’ Canada” Should not be changed at all. The anthem is and always will be a big part of being Canadian‚ as well as the symbolism of Canada. The biggest thing that people remember as a kid growing is singing the national anthem in school every day and proudly standing in front of the Canadian flag. As Canada is a bilingual country it would be hard to transfer and make a new anthem that will be properly formatted for both languages without any uncanny expressions. Also as O’ Canada
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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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language in a fairly fast amount of time. Onwuegbuzie‚ Bailey‚ and Daley (2001)‚ examined the cognitive‚ affective‚ personality‚ and demographic predictors of foreign-language achievement. They sampled 184 students ages 18-71‚ enrolled in four different language courses at a University. Students were given a questionnaire and were allotted two weeks to complete it. What the researchers found was that GPA was the highest predictor of foreign-language achievement‚ with foreign language anxiety following
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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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argument that bilingual education should be completely integrated into schools. It attacks the old ways of forcing all English classrooms‚ and gives the idea that children should be allowed to speak their native language while in class while slowly learning English. The article argues that this concept is too tough for many people to understand. http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr047.shtml This article is more of an informative one. The site describes the bilingual process with education
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no study on the phonological process in Cantonese-Spanish bilinguals learning English as an L2. De Houwer (1995‚ as cited in Law and So‚ 2006) and Romaine (2001‚ as cited in Law and So‚ 2006) indicated that numerous studies on bilingual development in different language combinations have found‚ that bilingual and monolingual language development differ qualitatively and quantitatively. Bilinguals are classified as simultaneous bilinguals or sequential
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