ipl-logo

Summary Of Richard Rodriguez Anti-Bilingual Education Act 2016

965 Words4 Pages

FOX NEWS Home Video U.S. Option Business Entertainment Tech Science Health Travel Lifestyle World On Air

E D U C A T I O N Linda Chavez: Richard Rodriguez Opinion towards the new Anti-bilingual Education Act 2016 Published December 16, 2016 FoxNews.com

Richard Rodriguez a bilingual writer who was raised in San Francisco by his two immigrant parents. As a child, Rodriguez faced many obstacles in school, which shaped him not to want to speak his private language. He was forced to speak his public language at home to help his fluency in English. He grew up speaking his public language which influenced his future career and viewpoint against bilingual education. Rodriguez struggled to fit in with the rest of his classmates …show more content…

Later in the years he wrote his first book in 1982 titled The Hunger of Memory. In his autobiography, he explains to the reader his interpretation of Private Language and Public Language. Where private language is the language used to speak with his family and private language for society. Through the explicit novel, Rodriguez won a variety of awards, however, his strong stand against bilingual education brought discontent to many of the Mexican American people.

Welcome to our education news, where we will discuss our new law which is the Anti-bilingual Education Act 2016. Tonight, Richard Rodriguez will give us his opinion on the new act established. First, however, we will discuss the disputable subject of bilingual education.
LINDA CHAVEZ: Good Afternoon, joining us now in a cable exclusive Richard Rodriguez the famous American literary author who wrote Hunger of Memory!
RICHARD RODRIGUEZ: Hey, Linda. Nice to be with you here in California.
LINDA CHAVEZ: I would like, to begin with a few questions regarding the Anti-bilingual Act of 2016, in which forbids all children to speak their private language at schools. This Act automatically excludes the students' ability to express themselves using their private language. What are your thoughts towards this …show more content…

At a young age, I recognized my private and public identity as discrete from the rest. English as my unknown language with unrecognizable sounds, and as I was to speak English, there was always an audience. I grew up in isolation not being able to express myself like any other American citizen. My cultural background haunted me in a negative way that I became anxious to dominate the English language. I went through enough discrimination to the point that I value the Anti-bilingual Act. I do not want other young students to feel like they cannot fit in society and completely isolate themselves.
LINDA CHAVEZ: Many Americans happen to be against the Act, they claim knowing more than one language is effective in a children's future for careers and jobs since our world revolves around different ethnicities. What do you think about this?
RICHARD RODRIGUEZ: Personally, from my experience being bilingual is quite the controversy. Yes, it will benefit them, but to what extent? To the extent where they are being marginalized and silenced? To the point where it is more than just being able to speak two languages, where it becomes a racial problem? We cannot look at what benefits use we also have to look at the consequences and how it can affect one. I would say I am for the Anti-bilingual Act.
LINDA CHAVEZ: What effect will this act have, not only in education but in our

Show More
Related
672 Words | 3 Pages

Rodriguez’ is able to immerse audience in his childhood experiences through vignettes, allowing them to relate to the author as well as develop an understanding as to why he does not support bilingual education. Though Rodriguez uses an extensive amount of vignettes, he also develops his claim through the periodic structure of his essay. The events of his childhood are not retold in the way they ordinarily would be, which is the linear order in which they occurred. Rather, Rodriguez chooses to introduce specific memories in a way that gradually leads up to his final argument.

Read More
1320 Words | 6 Pages

A study at Johns Hopkins found that bilingual education teaches bilingualism without compromising English proficiency. Comparable studies have shown that students gain proficiency in the second language and outperform their nonimmersion peers on standardized reading in English. The Current Status of Bilingual Education Programs in Arizona In 2000, Arizona passed Proposition 203, which required English-only instruction in all public schools.

Read More
440 Words | 2 Pages

In this article, Author Gloria Anzaldua writes about growing up in America as a Mexican-American and the struggles that she faced due to the language barrier. Gloria claims that she grew up around a variety of different forms of both Spanish and English, “Standard English, working class/slang English, standard Spanish, Standard Mexican Spanish, and North Mexican Spanish dialect”, are just a few. The language spoken, or combinations of the languages correlate with where the Hispanic person was originally from and where in the U.S. they are now, for example, “Chicano Spanish” is spoken in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Another focus of this article is how Gloria would be punished in school for speaking in her native tongue and then at home by her for not speaking English properly. Gloria also felt the university she attended made the Hispanics take two speech classes, “in order to get rid of our accents”, she claims.

Read More
1780 Words | 8 Pages

Patricia Gándara writes about the crippling segregation within our modern school system for Latino students in her essay Overcoming Triple Segregation. She examines the Latin American’s struggle for education by pointing out how not only are they segregated racially; but socioeconomically and linguistically. Gándara states that segregation towards Latinos will result small amounts of academic success and fewer citizens entering the workforce. Then the article takes a turn to advocate the use of bilingual classrooms, stating that by assimilating them into our culture, they will be able to become successful future contributing members of society. Gándara states that Latinos are forced to overcome the racial hostility placed before them, a lack

Read More
883 Words | 4 Pages

That is why Filemon Lopez, who is part of the Benito Juarez Civic Association states that they are working hard to teach the Mixtecs their rights, about the importance of health, housing but overall of education. Even in the Madera school district, the importance of education is being advocated for, for teachers such as Carmen Hernandez states that it is important that both children like adults learn both Spanish and English, so that they can later be able to function in an English speaking society, but also so that they can keep their language and their pride in their background. Such as in the lecture about linguistic anthropology lecture that we went over in class, where it was explained that for the most part once English was learned that native languages were used less and less then forgotten, for only a subset of the population usually those who are older are the only ones who maintain the language going until they are gone. That is why Carmen emphasizes the importance of providing bilingual classes for Mixtec adults and children. So that in the future as Apuleyo Guzman states, that he hopes to learn more English so that he can get a better job so that e can get a better job, so that he can better provided for his family and his village, yet also still has his culture, his language and his ties to

Read More
734 Words | 3 Pages

This had caused Richard to feel alienated at home, and at school, and felt ripped apart from his mother tongue, causing him in his adulthood to detest bilingual educators. I disagree with him. In his memoir Rodriguez

Read More
1004 Words | 5 Pages

This fight is something we should continue not only for Spanish but for other languages and cultures. Learning the public language will always be something beneficial. However, culture, language, and our voices are things to

Read More
187 Words | 1 Pages

Richard Rodriguez apprises his experience as a bilingual child by writing a book called, The Hunger of Memory. He experiences the feeling of alienation and non acceptance because his native language isn’t English. As a bilingual, Richard is socially disadvantage. His world is separated by two distinct sounds, English and Spanish. English represent the public society while Spanish represent his private world, which is his home.

Read More
601 Words | 3 Pages

He shows this through his many experiences with bilingual court and education. At the end of his essay, Espada concludes with a basic summary of what he has learned. Espada claims “The repression of Spanish is part of a larger attempt to silence Latinos, and, like the crazy uncle at the family dinner table yelling about independence or socialism, we must refuse to be silenced.” Through the summary the reader understands despite English being the prevalent language the in the U.S. today the Spanish culture is still being preserved through bilingualism. On the other hand Rodriguez argues that in order to gain a public identity, one must be willing to sacrifice some part of their own cultural identity.

Read More
651 Words | 3 Pages

My personal experience being multilingual is that i am able to freely express myself in words or phrases that come natural to me. Being able to speak Vietnamese, English, and French with ease while using some commonly known phrases from the Japanese language. Martin Espada and Richard Rodriguez, two authors that speak Spanish and English have different standpoints on the subject of bilingualism. In Martin Espada’s essay “The New Bathroom Policy at English High School” explains the need to maintain cultural identity through bilingualism, while in Richard Rodriguez’s exert “Hunger of Memory” depicts the necessity of becoming bilingual to be able to function well in society. “The New Bathroom Policy at English High School” by Martin Espada explores

Read More
438 Words | 2 Pages

“No Comprendo” (“I Don’t Understand”) is a newspaper article by Barbara Mujica, a professor of Spanish at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In this article, which was published in the New York Times, Mujica argues against bilingual education (teaching students in their native language as well as in English). No Comprendo Last spring, my niece phoned me in tears. She was graduating from high school and had to make a decision.

Read More
598 Words | 3 Pages

Espada is an essayist and was a tenant lawyer. He learns Spanish as his second language and defends the injustice of Latinos. Rodriguez is a son of Mexican immigrants and didn’t learn English until he was almost 7, he later earns a Ph.D. in English. Espada’s writes an essay, and Rodriguez writes a book called “Hunger of Memory”, both having pros and cons about being bilingual. Espada’s definition of bilingualism is that you need to know and appreciate the language and its culture.

Read More
839 Words | 4 Pages

In the current political climate of the United States, immigration is an extremely hot topic. Every single person – qualified or not - thinks they have something of worth to add to the heated debate, leading to some increasingly polarized views across the nation. From the day of its founding, America has been a country based on an idealized diverse and multicultural society where every single person is free to be exactly who they want to be. If the government legislated English as the national language, the multicultural and multilingual society the States worked so hard for will be driven multiple steps backward in the process. The culture one grows up in forms the basis of their personality from the moment they are born.

Read More
1764 Words | 8 Pages

His narrative shows this support and how having instruction in Spanish and English allows him to have higher academics. In less than ten years, one third of students attending public schools will not know English when starting Kindergarten. Are schools and teachers ready for this and will push for bilingual instruction? Is America ready for this? As for now, there is mixed perspectives.

Read More
1734 Words | 7 Pages

But, in contrast to bilingual programs, English immersion programs have a greater emphasis on English reading and writing proficiency integrating non-English speakers into general education classrooms with little or no use of their native language. The goal of EI programs is to use makes English language proficiency a priority in the students’ academic life, because English immersion supporters argue that English first is better for students trying to learn and assimilate in America. Educators in favor of bilingual education argue against the use of English immersion programs, claiming that the utilization of the student’s native language is just as imperative as the English language. The debate on which program is better for assimilation continues to create controversy. Several states have gone as far as banning bilingual programs in their school districts in favor of adopting English immersion programs, while other states do the opposite.

Read More

More about Summary Of Richard Rodriguez Anti-Bilingual Education Act 2016

Related Topics

Open Document