Benefits Of Dual Language Bilingual Education

Dual language is a form of education in which students are taught to read and write in two languages. The majority of dual language programs in the United States teach in English and Spanish, although there are emerging programs that teach in Mandarin, Japanese and Hindi. The programs start of mostly in kindergarten sand 1st grade and continue throughout primary education, in addition some dual language programs depending on the grade continue through middle and high school. Even Hayward’s own Burbank

The number of language-minority children in the public schools have increased tremendously over the last ten years. Bilingual Education has continued to grow relentlessly. The number of children who have enrolled in dual language (DL) programs only continues to increase. Truly though, are DL teachers ready to teach children in bilingual classrooms? Have these teachers received the appropriate training so that their instruction would work effectively for the bilingual children? According to Baker

someone who speaks two languages?” in which the person being asked the question would usually respond with “bilingual.” It goes on to ask about those who speak three or four languages, but then there is a kicker. “What does one call someone who only speaks one language?” to which the punch line is “an American.” According to the 2006 General Social Survey, only 25 percent of American adults are fluent in a foreign language, while only 7 percent cite the source of this education to formal schooling (Devlin

Bilingual Benefits: An Integral Aspect of Our Modern Global Community Growing up as a child in a military family, I had the fortunate experience of living in many places in the United States and abroad. With each new living adventure, we often met new families who were of mixed backgrounds and many of the new friends I made had one parent that was American and another that was of non-American or non-English speaking nationality. As such, these new friends were often bilingual. I often pondered

Bilingual Education: Frank Smith, a psycholinguist recognized for his contributions in cognitive psychology and linguistics, expresses the advantages of bilingualism —“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” However, only 18% of Americans can speak more than one language, while 53% of Europeans and 99% of Latvians are bilingual. The United States does not have a standard foreign language mandate at any level of education; some states permit individual

states that “bilingual education has the potential of being a transformative school practice, able to educate all children in ways that stimulate and expand their intellect and imagination, as they gain ways of expression and access different ways of being in the world” (p.12). Implementing a two-way Spanish and English immersion program provides students with a unique educational experience in which students have access to instruction in their primary language and a second language, with the goal

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

Bilingual language is beneficial for the child’s first language and English development “Language constitutes us, it gives us meaning and allows us to make meaning, and it develops and abolishes spaces.” (Benjamin, 2002). Critiques of bilingual education continually claim that children can only learn one language at a time after which they are taught a second language (Krashen, 2000). They assert that bilingual education cause confusion among children and limit their intelligence capabilities;

We learned in our text that the development of language is a complicated process that involves phonemes, morphemes, syntactic development among several other factors (Siegler, DeLoache, Eisenberg & Saffran, 2014, p. 218). Proper and effective development of these language skills has been shown to have a critical learning period that enables successful fluency of a language; this period usually occurs between the ages of 5 and puberty (Siegler et al., 2014, p. 220). I believe that this critical

There have been many informative studies information regarding the advantages of learning two languages. Bilingualism is a continually growing issue in the United States. Being bilingual as a child enhances knowledge so steps taken to promote bilingual education are very important. Children are not exposed to bilingualism even though the benefits have been well established.  Dual Language education is increasing throughout the United States giving students at a young age an advantage over their monolingual