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A Memoir Of A Bilingual Childhood

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Moses Maximov
Jorge Villalobos
English 100
September 22, 2014 Bilingual Education Draft 1 Bilingual education is a term that describes the different kind of educational programs such as English as a Second Language. Bilingual education methods involve teaching students school subjects in their native tongue, while they are being taught English. The main purpose is to keep the children from falling behind in other subjects while they are learning English. This program is provided to teach English as a second language until the students are ready to be in all English class setting. There is an ongoing debate where people are in favor of bilingual education, and against it; however, I believe that bilingual education should not be implemented in K-12 because and it is too costly for United States government to maintain this program, and it may create a slow learning …show more content…

In this essay he shows his readers a part of life that many have never experienced. He is a good example of how not showing up for bilingual education courses can help students develop a successful English. Richard claims that he was finally able to raise his hand in class and talk, after learning English on a more elaborate basis. Rodrigues’s teachers influenced his parents to start talking on English at home to help speed up the learning process for him. Each day he stayed after school for English tutoring. Students that had bilingual classes throughout K-12 may find difficult to obtain a successful career. If person cannot use the language of the country, then how do you think he could possibly succeed in his life? One of the biggest problems of bilingual education is that it does not give students a chance to learn the public language. No matter if individuality is trying to learn English throughout books at school, this person will never learn a public jargon by using this

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