Bilingualism Research Papers Samples For Students

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Abstract
The United States of America currently does not have an official language. Nevertheless, many advocates are vouching for the officialization of English in a federal level. This would mean that border states will not be able to make their immigrants more welcome. A Constitutional amendment is being fought over and over, and legislator have tried to pass this project through every official channel, but it hasn't been successful so far. Children of immigration would suffer even more because officializing English would mean the end of bilingual education programs, as well as difficulties businesses, federal services and other entities. ...

How many of us here alone speak more than one language? In my paper I will discuss some of the benefits a bilingual education may provide. It will also include the programs available and the debate over their effectiveness or ineffectiveness over time. I will discuss the three readings I chose from class (Lu, Tan, and Rodriguez) and provide information on their experiences.
However, the way educators approach bilingual education is still an ongoing subject of debate, up to and including the terms used to describe students. As noted by Fránquiz, “The two labels, LEP [Limited English Proficient] ...

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The issue of bilingual education is a concept worth exploring. Apart from being a popular and somewhat fashionable political trend, this topic is in fact a tight knot of interdisciplinary problems which provide certain key learnings which help us better understand the existing reality around us. While bilingual education may be defined as a system of educational processes, standards and specific activities performed in two languages (normally at a fluent, native -speaking level), it should not be confused with traditional language training. Almost every educational facility in almost every country in the world has courses ...

Introduction

Studies on psychology and cognition have shown that a child’s language has a great impact on his/her ability to regulate his emotions and behavior. In order for two people to understand and share meaning with one another, a clear ground should first be laid out to avoid misunderstandings. A study involving 120 children aged 18 months to 4 years old showed that participants who had superior language skills expressed less anger upon reaching 4 years old (Roben, Cole, & Armstrong, 2012). Most children in their early stages learn to use language as a means of self-expression and self-regulation, because ...

The process of becoming fluent in writing and speaking a second language is a complex process that relies on a number of influences; individual personality characteristics such as maturity, past experiences, exposure to the new language, learning environment, motivation, and natural inclinations to adapting to new skills are some factors that promote or hinder progress. Research involving experimentation, investigation, and empirical studies has been conducted to describe individual factors that influence the quality and speed of children’s learning a second language and will be examined. Some children are born into multilingual families with different cultural backgrounds and it ...

Voting Rights Act 1965

Introduction
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a very important piece of legislation in the history of American civil rights. The voting rights act has a long history of alterations and revisions before it was consented in 1965. The effects of the legislation had, and still have far reaching implications. The Voting Rights Act of 1965was assented to law by the then president Lyndon Johnson on the sixth of August in 1965. The new legislation outlined the disenfranchisement of African Americans characterized by discriminatory voting practices that were adopted by many Southern states after the end of the civil ...

The graduation rate for Hispanic students has risen, but the dropout rate for Hispanic students is still the highest among their African-American, Asian, and White peers. This results in too few Hispanics enrolling in college or other higher education programs, which segues into low employment rates and a higher level of poverty within Hispanic families. Hispanics are the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the United States today. Hispanic children are an important part of America’s future. Taking into account their growing numbers, they are going to become a crucial part of the work force once they reach adulthood. They are going ...

International Air Law

Air transport is currently considered the fastest and safest means of transport globally, Passengers want to feel secure when flying from one place to another and expect the airline to be responsible in the event where they experience any form of injury while under the airline’s care. However, the application of treaties and agreements in determining the liability of airlines in instances of accidents has triggered debates as to what extent the airlines are liable for the damages experienced while the plaintiff is onboard. A particular question arises regarding the extent of injuries that an airline can be ...

Language Shift is one of the research topics that is recognized as a field of methodical question among the professional students of language behavior. Particularly, the study of the language shift and maintenance focus on the relationship between change or stability regarding habitual language utilization. According to Fishman that the language maintenance involves the intergenerational language transmission. It implies that when the intergenerational language transmission stops, then it means that the speakers shift to another language. For example, an intergenerational transmission of a language from parents to their children and a successive utilization of a certain language in the ...

Bilingual incorporation in education is a matter that appears to have taken root in most of the world’s education systems. This means that second language use has become something of great importance. In the contemporary education system, teachers are being encouraged to have bilingual skills with English having the second priority in the United States. This means that the teachers should have the ability to communicate effectively in English to a point that they can effectively teach the language to the young children (Michael, ix).
Elementary education mainly comprises of the young children who are in their initial phases ...

It is a well-known fact that school is a place for students to gain a great amount of knowledge and develop new skills. Therefore, it is of high importance to create appropriate environment for such purposes. In this paper, I will describe and present my opinion considering the possible actions a school administration can take to ensure that all the students are safe and able to study without any threats of discrimination or concern about achievement in today's society. Two main areas of diversity – race and age – will be discussed based on review of the school's implicit and explicit curriculum, practices and policies ...

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Introduction
The diversity of students in the elementary classroom posits concerns about providing instruction to embrace multiculturalism. Teaching standard American English takes precedence, and teachers should promote this way of African American students acquiring the language skills. Nonetheless, teachers should recognize their young students’ language peculiarities of Ebonics despite the negative connotations attached to it. Specifically, many people interpret Ebonics disapprovingly due to a corrupt form of English (Ramirez, Wiley, Klerk, Lee, & Wright, 2005, p. 41). This is the reason why both school teachers and ...

The policy of multiculturalism, national identity and the fight against racism is extremely relevant today. Which theory to stick – fusion of many cultures into one, or preserving the cultural identity of each nation and race – that is the question that is now concerned by not only politicians but also by ordinary people. It can be said that it is mainly addressed to the people who face the representatives of different cultures in everyday life. Therefore, it is important to understand how the policy of multiculturalism has developed in countries such as Canada and the US as it is in ...

Memory is one of the most explored areas in psychology. It is defined as a means by which individuals retrieve past experiences for purposes of using the information in the present. It also refers to the process by which individuals retain and maintain the information about past events (Cardwell & Flanagan, 2005). Memory is conceptualized by many psychologists as an information processing system that involved three fundamental processes. The processes are encoding, storage and retrieval (Nevid, 2013). Encoding involve changing the information format that is usable in memory while storage means retaining the information in memory. On the other hand, retrieval ...

Introduction

Second language acquisition refers to the process through which people are able to learn a second language over and above their first language. It is essential to note that second language acquisition connotes what learners of such a second language do, rather than the practices involved in the teaching of such language. More significantly, the concept of second language acquisition may extend to cover the learning of a third, fourth or any other subsequent language in addition to the first language of a person (Norris and Ortega 23-26).This reference is a book. In this research paper, I examine the difficulties that beset a second ...

English Language Learners

The number of students who speak English as their second language continues to increase in the United States, especially in Arizona, Texas, California, New York, and Florida (Cho & Larke 1). It is common in elementary classrooms for these students to communicate with other students in the class who are bilingual in order to learn the lessons that are being taught. This type of communication and learning style is known as conversational repair. It helps to reduce the misunderstanding of the English Language Learner (ESL) students that often exist due to the lack of language comprehension. However, many teachers do ...