Analysis Of Ethos And Pathos In Aria By Richard Rodriguez

He goes further in depth, using an ethos appeal, informing the reader about his very own experience to a new language and the problems he encountered, and overcame. However, Rodriguez lacks to provide any other evidence other than his experience, to use in his argument; the absence of any other evidence in his writing makes his argument unfair and hard to trust.

Dual language learners are children learning two or more languages at the same time, as well as those learning a second language while continuing to develop their first (or home) language (Dual language learning, 2008). The number of children being raised in bilingual homes is large and growing, however the mechanism of language development in children from bilingual homes is not well described or understood (Hoff et al., 2011). A large body of research has refuted the opinion that dual language input may confuse children, and other research indicates that children exposed to two languages can distinguish those languages from infancy, learn two phonological systems, two vocabularies and two grammars (Kova´cs & Mehler, 2009a; Petitto,

This essay, titled “Aria”, originally published in 2008, is an autobiographic essay of the author’s childhood, Richard Rodriguez’. In his essay, Richard is against bilingual educators, who think that children in their first years of school should be educated in their native language. According to him this education system is wrong, won’t be beneficial, therefore children should be educated in the same language as the public one.

With successive bilingualism a child has the advantage of their first language as a base. They use this to both analyze and develop the second.  For example, the child knows that language is organized in a particular order.  The more mature a child is they also have a better vocabulary base, acoustic perception, and comprehension. Therefore they would make fewer errors in a second language.

In my opinion bilingualism plays a major role in the educational development of children. This is because research has shown that children who are fluent in their home language are more successful in learning a second language. Furthermore, being bilingual offers greater sensitivity to language, more flexibility in thinking and better ear for listening. It also improves a child’s understanding for the native language. Moreover, knowledge of other languages increases a career of opportunities offering several job options.

In Richard Rodriguez's essay , “ Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood ” he writes about how he struggled as a child who only spoke Spanish language but lives in a society where the “public” language is English . He believes that speaking proper English will somehow help him fit into society and find his “true” identity. Throughout the essay he contrast the Spanish language identity and English language identity. As a young boy, Rodriguez finds consolation and safety in his home where they only speak Spanish. He feels that he only has a true identity when he is at home surrounded by those who speak the same language as him . On the contrary , he becomes trapped and disoriented when not being able to speak / understand the English language . He feels as if he is not part of “their world” and has no identity in society. By comparing and contrasting Spanish language identity and English language identity . Rodriguez's essay is an example that speaking different languages should not make anyone choose an identity . In fact being able to speak and understand multiple languages in his case Spanish and English makes the language a part of his identity, but with two different sides .

The reader disagrees with Rodriguez’s idea that other languages besides the primary language of a society cannot be used in the classroom. Rodriguez says that “it is not possible

Bilingual Education involves teaching academic content in two languages, in a native and secondary language with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model. Bilingual Education has been around for some time since the settlement of the Polish settlers during colonization in the 17th century. Although, Bilingual Education has been a great controversy in the United States on whether it should be taught or not, Bilingual Education in schools is necessary for the understanding and convenience of students and staffs.

To begin, Rodriguez uses ethos by demonstrating his personal experience as a Spanish speaker, in order to gain the sufficient amount of reliability to evaluate the negativity of bilingual classes in schools.

People of all ages constantly learn how to speak multiple languages. Children are taught to become bilingual, which increases their knowledge. A young boy named Richard Rodriguez grew up in San Francisco, California with a household of Spanish speaking family members. Rodriguez barely knew English when he entered his early years of Elementary school. Through the course of his education Rodriguez took note of how different he was from his family, and slowly began to lose his heritage. Rodriguez’s family embarrassed him since he was categorized as a Scholarship boy, which means a good student yet also a troubled son whose moderately endowed (Rodriguez 19).

Bilingualism has to do with an individual being fluent in two or more languages at work or educational facilities.

Bilingualism is the ability to speak and understand two different languages. You don’t have to speak both languages fluently to be considered bilingual; most people will still have a dominant language. People used to think that learning a second language is something you can do only when you get older.

Rampton (2009) stated that Bilingualism is the ability to use two or more languages. Definitions of bilingualism range from the basic ability to communicate in two or more languages to a fluent level using those languages, which allows the speaker to function

What is Bilingual Education? The term refers to the practice of teaching non-English speaking children in their native language, and was developed in the 1960’s; these programs were intended to allow students to progress in science, math and social studies while they learned English in a separate class.

Language are our human’s foundation to live with others, and currently more than 6000 types of language are spoken by human. There are various components that create language. The combination of letters and sounds create meaning and can be represented verbally (communication), physically (written) or mentally (thoughts). Our ability to communicate and speak is represented within the brain and relies on other cognitive processes, such as memory, to process, store and retrieve language. What makes language special is its universality. There are various formations of language evident across different cultures and strongly influence an individual 's ability to effectively communicate. People who can control more than two language, call as bilingual people, can voluntarily utilise which language is in use at any given time. In recent year, Grosjean has stated a definition of bilingualism which describe as “the regular use of more than one language, and thus bilinguals are people who need and use more than one language in their everyday lives. Bilinguals are also a common, worldwide fact that is observed to exist.” (Grosjean, 2006) More than half of European, nowadays, can handle more than one language and quarter of them are able to speak at least two languages on their conversation according to the recent research. If we concern about bilingual person, there are obviously two types of pattern which can be separated. Age of acquisition is one way to separate bilinguals types,