Maria Nieto Lopez
Mrs. Kohntopp
Senior Project
September 24, 2014
Bilingualism
It is time, for families to know about new opportunities for the future of their children and the new help that the children can get just by being bilingual. The United States has 21% children under
Ages five to 17 speaking other than English languages. Frank Smith contemporary psycholinguists recognized for all the contributions in linguistics and cognitive psychology says, “One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way” (Smith). Bilingual individuals have shown that they can be more creative, better at planning, and solving problems. This is why the bilingual programs should be integrated into public school system to help the no English language speakers and the English speakers to learner another language better and master the state objective and also integrated to a new culture. Being bilingual provides advantages to everyone, so all children in the U.S. Should be educated in
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Parents who don’t speak the same languages as their children are tired because they cannot communicate with the young. The ones who suffer the most are the parents because they didn’t get an education and not an opportunity to learn other languages. Parents should learn new languages because that will help them to understand the needs of their children, and to help at other languages classes, and ask things about the school of their children. Most of the Hispanic and American from ages five to seventeen that study for a better future on the United States always forget that learning both English and Spanish is