Advantages Of Task Based Teaching For The Marginalized Learners

Thesis: All three authors portray the voice of many people, who, on a daily basis, are underprivileged of speaking their own language, thus, emphasizing onto the lives of linguistic minority students around the world and how they struggle to cope in school and at home.

Even the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Health and Human Services (HHS) are rallying support for those citizens who do not currently speak English well or at all. The EEOC is fighting

It is important for immigrants to learn to speak and write in English while keeping their native tongue. Without knowing how to speak the common language here, it is impossible to blend

The author, Melinda D. Anderson, sheds light on a growing problem in America. Today, thousands of students are experiencing difficulties when trying to earn an education because of the language barriers that prohibit them. Additionally, educators are ignoring this dilemma and making matters worse by enforcing English-only policies. The author believes that educators should discover a way to intertwine languages in order to help struggling students to overcome their language barriers.

Much like many immigrants are ridiculed for speaking broken English. John Baugh (2000) tells of a story from his childhood where he would mock students in his class who did not speak English as a first language. He would repeat what these students said with a mocking tone. As he grew older he began to realize that the way he teased many fellow students because of their broken English, was similar to the way he, and many of his fellow African American community members, were teased (p. 7-8). Baugh (2000) goes on to say that the mocking and false-sense of superiority he felt over the students learning English as a Second language was the same feeling many feel about those who speak Ebonics (p. 10). The reputation of Ebonics being a lower class dialect of Standard English, especially within the academic world, has created an academic disadvantage for many African American students (Baugh, 2000, p. 6). For these students, who are native AAVE speakers, there is no extra ESL or bilingual help to strengthen their Standard English, because Ebonics is not considered a language, but rather a dialect (Baugh, 2000, p. 3). This causes many African American students to never speak Standard English proficiently, and in turn do not read or write at grade

Having a “standard” for a language such as English, creates a set of biased and unrealistic expectations because connecting language mastery with intelligence, ultimately degrades and oppresses those who speak differently from "the norm." Tan, Anzaldua, and Sedaris all bring up these points of bias and tie together one central idea that intelligence and ability do not directly correlate to language mastery.

How I feel about the argument in the text of learning english is it would be hard to do daily tasks around the community. The argument thats been amplified to know is to speech the language is everything. A assumption about learning english is people want to study the language to have a better career to start a better life there are programs like ELS allowing immigrant and refuges to study english as their second language. However, ESL program takes time to learn and immigrant and refuges don’t have the time with the long hours of work to the busy schedules. A viewpoint about learning a new language would be very hard on me and the pressure of feeling like the outsider of a new country. The purpose for me to read about the language struggle

It is perfect to remember that the minority societies have the right to learn a language like other healthy individuals in the society. This is because the success or failure of the students has a lot to do with the language command they receive in the education system. For this reason, they all need the chance to receive language education as others. The pragmatics also discusses the possible ways of developing individuals who are fluent in English, and this shows their interest in linguistic education to the minority communities. This is one of the important things that the pragmatics believe in, and I also support it fully. I believe that it is the time minorities feel the same weight as

As mentioned previously, there are many people from the same origin in which it makes the demand of learning English not necessary. This challenge not only prevents those migrants from finding jobs but it is also troublesome when they need access to the social and health services. Even though there are ESL programs for adults; however, it is not well coordinated enough for the people to fully learn the language. Furthermore, in order to permanently stay in Canada and become a Canadian citizen, learning the local language crucial. When people are asked to go for the immigration interview, the level and complexity of English that is expected of the people are much higher compare to before. Hence, this is also one of the problems that elder people or middle-aged people have. People tend to stay in areas where their mother language are spoken and therefore neglect the learning of English; therefore, interpreters are often

When the immigrant’s native language is not one of the general population, certain difficulties arise. For immigrants to be functional in society, it is highly important for them find a way to communicate with the culture around them. One way of doing this is learning the language of those in the surrounding culture. If immigrants decide to not go through the trouble of learning a new language, they often find that when they apply for jobs employers are, “discouraged by the fact that [they know] hardly a word of English” (Fox

This paper will explore the types of obstacles and barriers first-generation students encounter. Consequently, an imbalance in the educational system creates disparities that allows for hindrances pertaining to language barriers in first-generation students.

In the lecture “Public and Private Language”, the author narrates the discrimination he experienced when he talked in Spanish language and one of the terribly striking works found is that he felt a socially disadvantaged child. He concluded, despite his early age that Spanish was the private language, the intrinsic language and that he needed to learn the required language, the language of public society, the English language. Furthermore, there are several talented people in the world who are rejected and who cannot develop their careers because they do not have the English language. What really matters is the knowledge, the ability to create things. Why does society discriminate so much against a person who does not have the English language? It is unfortunate that society discriminates and criticizes people who do not speak

However as Amy Tan reflects upon in her essay ‘’Mother Tongue’’, ‘’She used to have me call people on the phone to pretend to I was she.’’(Tan, Tongue) A young Amy would have to translate her mother's broken english whenever an important call would have to be made, or any transaction was needed. Making it very difficult for her family to afford what they needed, along with the overall discrimination.‘’The fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.’’(Tan, Tongue) Not having the ability to communicate as easily as her daughter meant that her options for work were very

Society is so used to hearing the phrase, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” In reality, this is just a metaphor for how people actually judge each other based on a first impression or how someone speaks. Certain individuals are judged because of their accent, the way they speak, how much English they truly know, or on their ability to speak a different language. As a result, they are often denied jobs when applying because of that specific language barrier. Often times, if certain human beings have broken English, they are thought less of, and have a harder time fitting in because they are judged. Employers need to realize that minorities who speak broken English, are faced with certain disadvantages, and have a harder time fitting into society’s norms.

Acquiring and learning a second language do not refer only to handling oral communication skills. It is more than that; it takes the students´ abilities in enhancing their lexicon, their management in syntax, and their perspective about words´ influences in people. Thus, summing this up, it is indispensable that ESL students have a grand deal about linguistic knowledge. In other words, ESL learners not only require speaking, but also reading, writing and thinking in English when they complete whatever English career.