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The Pros And Cons Of Being Bilingual

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My hypothesis is that being bilingual makes you a better student than a non bilingual student. The believe that knowing two languages was not good for children because it made them confuse. It’s been proven that this is wrong because it actually makes them concentrate better in school. The growth of children who are bilingual has increased in the years 2014-2015 to estimated 4.6 million in public schools. Furthermore, the study conducted was to show how know to languages helps school performance. Therefore, 50 Antelope valley college students received a survey that had eleven questions. Some of the questions asked about how well are they doing in school. All of the participants needed to be bilingual for the study to show their success rate in school. The study was not a success because of the bias in the researcher. In addition, there could’ve been better questions asked in the survey. The participants should’ve also been non bilingual so there could’ve been a comparison within the …show more content…

Language is very important because it helps us communicate with others. Knowing two languages Throughout decades scientist believe that there was only one section of the brain that dealt with language , but that is wrong there are multiple sections of the brain that deal with language (Ratey,2002). In schools many teachers believed that teaching a second language was going to confuse the student and was going to make them do bad in school. This has been prove to be the opposite, learning a second language actually helps students. However, there is a ‘‘hold-back’’ which deal with the appropriate time for infants to start learning a second language and what should they first expose, which carries additional presuppositions about the direction that conceptual mapping and/or transfer of knowledge in human learning obligatorily flows (Petitto, L. 2009).The percentage of public school students in the United States who were ELLs was higher in

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In the Great Depression era novel The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck deploys descriptive language to convey Man’s perseverance. For example in chapter 3 Steinbeck describes Man’s perseverance by using a turtle and it struggles to represent the Joad family’s struggles. One can see Man’s perseverance when narrator states, “Now the hands, braced on top of the wall, strained and lifted, and the shell came slowly up and rested its front end on the wall.” In this passage the phrases “strained and lifted” and “came slowly up” evoke the reader's sense of struggle and hardship because the turtle is slowly lifting itself with all its might over a large obstacle. This dialogue also expresses life’s will to survive regardless of the

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The timeliness of the article is recent, it was published in 2014. The authors are reliable, both Bialystok and Craik have degrees in psychology, as well as conducted some of this research themselves. This article proves its truthfulness with citing where they received some of their information about advances of bilingualism. The purpose of this article is to educate the scientific audience that there is evidence of bilingualism being a benefit on our

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Bilingual people often get pushed away or bullied for not being able to speak a new language. Bilingual speakers should feel like they belong in their own identity. They should also speak out about their struggles and challenges with bilingualism. In the essay, "Hunger of Memory", Richard Rodriguez explains that being able to keep his native tongue while also learning a new language can be very helpful in the outside world. Being able to acknowledge different languages can help at school, work, or even just the grocery store.

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Their findings were, "that bilinguals are more accurate than monolinguals in comprehending syntactically complex sentences in the presence of linguistic noise"(Northwestern). Bilingual children do not get confused between their two languages instead, they are ahead. This research shows that bilingual children can differentiate between the syntactically complex sentence and the linguist noise while monolingual children could not. Bilingual children naturally have that skill because they already have to differentiate between two languages so,

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This removes the motivation to learn a new language, even if it is an important life skill to possess. If American education systems resembled those of Europe’s, then it is likely that bilingual rates will

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Learning and speaking a foreign language requires the use of grammar skills and, this causes a double reinforcement in that area of language which leads to better comprehension when reading. Additionally, learning a second language improves cognitive development and the outcome of all of this is better grades in classes at school Now, on the other hand, some parents and students argue that learning a foreign language is a waste of time and money because it has no effect on a student’s academics and life skills. However, in a recent study done by The College Board, they found that students with at least 4 years of a second language scored roughly 140 points higher in all three sections of the SAT, unlike their peers without any years of learning a second language. Also, with these higher test scores, it makes it much easier for these students to get into better colleges and do well in these

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The more language knowledge significantly helps towards your career as you know. Bilinguals have the privilege of get their information from a wider variety of resources. Also, it has great educational benefit to kids. Many studies suggest that bilingual children tend to have a higher concentration and are better at working through distraction while doing their school work. Research has shown that bilinguals score higher on average on tests involving creative thinking or problem solving.

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Bilingualism in children broadens their horizons by expanding their accessible social circle as well as encouraging them to think positively of other cultures. Additionally, some experience seems to point to the fact that early bilingualism can enhance a child’s ability to learn other languages as well as improving their overall language skills, both important skills in today’s world (King and Fogle). Even with all its myriad benefits, there are some drawbacks to bilingualism in children. Grover also states that bilingual children may recognize their differences from their peers, and thus feel closed off and excluded, or even ashamed of their other language.

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Although they see a drop in students’ scores at first, it does not last for long, and they are above average by the time they get a hold of the language and the

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With nations becoming increasingly connected through mediums like the internet, the world has changed substantially within the last decade. It’s a time where Spanish songs such as Luis Fonsi’s Despacito can top the American music charts, where traveling to the other side of the world takes a few hours instead of weeks, and more importantly, where states like California and Utah are continuing to promote and provide for a growing demand for bilingual education through dual-immersion programs. Although the states have great strides in the right direction, bilingual education should not be encouraged but rather be required for K-12 students. Because bilingual education integrates languages into the student’s lifestyle through instruction, it enriches the lives of children, the adults they will become, and the community to which they will contribute to.

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Other studies have found that even if they are instructed in their home language they will still have the same English results that are no different from results of English students who are taught in all-English instruction. Some of the experiments came from researches in Johns Hopkins University where they rigorous study how well bilingual education conducted to the society during the times it was passed. Some of the researchers from Johns Hopkins University studied data from Spanish speaking students in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley. From that information they concoured that bilingual education can help promote bilingualism without causing any problems to the learning of non english students. Other results have shown that even with Mandarin students who are in the bilingual education program tend to sustain or in more cases, excel in their classes with all English speakers in Northern California.

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The outcomes of the research will be intended to increase understanding about bilingualism and used as an aid to parents to choose suitable school for the children and to students to decide which university to go to study. The research includes several different methods. This enable the data and information accumulated by one technique to be checked and affirmed by an alternate.

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There are many limitations and difficulties to attain accurate results on the differences of bilinguals and monolinguals, however, researchers and educators are positive about the benefits of being bilingual or multilingual. Hopefully new research and studies in the near future will be able to solve the questions and

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Being bilingual has got many advantages. It has been debated that bilingualism has multiple advantages such as cognitive, cultural, academic benefits as well. Cognitive benefit reveals that being bilingual help to facilitate human brain. People who are bilingual have two language systems which are working simultaneously. These systems don’t create hindrance in individual’s performance and ensure brain’s functioning of both cognitive aspects (Bialystok, 1999).

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