English Chapter 1 Summary

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Chapter 1 starts with describing how much the U.S has changed when it comes to teaching students that don’t speak English as their first language. It gives three setting: first language classrooms, bilingual classrooms and english-language classrooms. First language is where is where all interactions is in the primary language of the students, bilingual is a classroom taught in both english and the student(s) main language while english-language classrooms are classrooms in all English. For language is to learned a child has to understand/know words, sounds, grammar, discourse and pragmatics of the lanuage. The chapter later gets into how children can quickly begin to understand 2 languages if exposed early. This differs from acquiring a new