Bilingual Education : A Part Of Our Education System

The need for bilingual education is not directly related to the need for the student to have a more pleasant learning experience, but based more on the increasing need for these individuals to learn about their heritage, how they can present themselves to others in different scenarios, and being knowledgeable in both languages at a dual equivalence. The key

Around 1959, bilingual education took flight in the United States. Starting in Miami and quickly making its way San Francisco, bilingual education soon led to the Bilingual Education Act, which promoted “No Child Left Behind”. Only twenty years later, the act acquired the attention of high schools around the country. Nonetheless, bilingual education is not always taken to be the cure-all for acclimating immigrants to the United States. In his article “Aria: A Memoir of Bilingual Childhood”, Richard Rodriguez argues that students should not take part in bilingual education by explaining how it takes away individuality and a sense of family through the use of ethos, diction, and imagery; Rodriguez also uses parallelism and ethos to point out how a bilingual childhood can help students feel connected to society.

Bilingual Education where Supporters feel that students miss a great deal by not being taught in their family’s language. That children that retain their family’s language will retain a sense of individuality. Their ethnic heritage & cultural ties. Helping Students acquire the skills of a classroom crucial for public success. Rodriguez also discusses the use of teaching and using a single language.

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.

It is no secret that the debate over what is the best course of action to educate our non-native English language students across the country is a highly charged topic that runs from the classroom to Capitol Hill. There have been many shifts in direction and focus of educational programs for English Language Learning (ELL) students during the past century in our nation's history. In 1968, with the passage of the Bilingual Education Act (Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) legislation was

The problem with both bilingual education and English-as-a-second language instruction in the United States lies in our unwillingness to treat English for non-speakers as an academic subject (Haas, 2007). While the bilingual programs in California are thought to be mostly for people who speak Spanish, there are also Asian students that need to be taught proper English before continuing their education. As one anonymous teacher points out: "I have had 32 different languages spoken in my classroom over a 25-year period. Eighty-four languages are spoken in our district."(Anon 1998 & Haas 2007). Which for most teachers mean that it is both educationally and economically impossible to teach every student in their own native language.

​The United States is a nation filled with a multitude of different cultures which come alongside with a variety of languages. These languages are what help society to communicate with one another and to expand their horizon of thinking. As the United States progresses so does the culture. The culture of the United States is no longer what it once was. A nation of a predominately Caucasian race, who only speaks one language, is now a thing of the past. The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (English Language Learners) states that from the 1997-1998 school year to the 2008-2009 school year, the number of English Language Learners in public schools increased from 3.5 million to 5.3 million which comes to be a 51 percent increase. They also reported that the overall student population grew to a 7.2 percent increase during this time. A huge generation of a multicultural society is rapidly growing and it is our responsibility as a nation to educate this new generation to its fullest potential. We as a nation can wither choose to ignore the reality of this new generation by forcing one language on students classified as English Language Learners, or we can choose to cultivate the knowledge of language so that this new generation may prosper in more ways than one. We do not want to become a society that promotes, as R.A. Berman summarizes in his statement from his article The Real

Texas and California are two of the biggest states in America. They also comprise two of the most diverse populations in the country as well. According to Robert E. Slavin, bilingual education “refers to programs for students who are acquiring English that teach the students in their first language part of the time while English is being learned” (2012). Bilingual education can also range from education that uses almost English for instruction to instruction that teaches partly in the student’s native language and partly in English. There are many theories as to which method is most effective and which should be used in schools. With so many diverse students becoming a part of schools, one can almost never apply one perfect instructional strategy

Bilingual education is a program in which children are taught their native language as well as their dominant language in society. Such a program would be beneficial in society because it would teach students academic material in their native language. If the problem was also bicultural, it would teach children the culture revolving both linguistic groups.

Texas lawmakers need to examine whether the state's bilingual education programs can be more effective at teaching students English. Bilingual education is instruction in all subjects in the student's native tongue in a separate classroom with other students who

Now, let us tackle into what an experienced bilingual afterschool program coordinator and a nonprofit organization, the National Association for Bilingual Education, have to say regarding the filed of English Language Learning. To gain more insight from a professional standpoint, I have had the honor to interview the coordinator of an afterschool program for immigrant children and families, where I have been doing my service learning for the past two years. The program coordinator’s beliefs are unanimous with the four literature review findings that using paired reading, gesture, and providing bilingual education are effective teaching strategies for English Language Learners. Furthermore, it is crucial to recognize the strengths of ELLs and being aware of their needs too. Paired reading will help with ELL’s English fluency because it encourages children to sound out the words to each other. It will also help them to stay focused on the books and to cooperate or foster social interaction skills. Using gesture, or even role-play or drawings can help children understand the readings and vocabularies in a more interesting way. Lastly, bilingual education is crucial in ELL’s learning. It helps children make connections with their native language and English while they are reading or speaking, and making connections between their home culture and the U.S. culture is a great way to help the children enjoy learning a new language.

One important thing I have learned about the education of emergent bilingual students is that there is not one correct way to teach them. Instead, there are many different factors that impact the way students are able to use their home languages and cultures as resources in the classroom that are important to their education. Leopold Elementary School is one example of a school in the US that must implement certain practices to support their population of bilingual students. While 42% of the student population at Leopold is English Language Learners, the school has many successes and areas of improvement that would benefit this group of students. Through the uses of students’ funds of knowledge, bilingual competencies, and a push for standards

The goal of a bilingual education program is to develop both academic and core content skills through the use of both English and the first language, and through this development, strengthen all aspects of English language learning. ESL programs focus on using strategies designed for learning a second language to develop a student’s English language learning. The goals for both programs are that students will be able to speak, listen, read and write English competently and that these program will comprise just one piece of the school setting for English learners. They are also alike in that they both focus on the English language

The first time I heard Spanish, I felt the same butterflies lovesick high schoolers lose their minds over. The first time a korean pop song flowed through my headphones, my heart raced like a cheetah. Every time I hear a new language, I fall in love; not only because of the way native speakers wrap their tongues around the syllables of their heritage, but because of the connections that can be formed through multiple languages. For bilingual American citizens, learning English isn’t always about a love for the language, but the need to communicate efficiently in America. Martín Espada and Richard Rodriguez, two bilingual American citizens, share their viewpoints on the term bilingualism, and its application in America.

Bilingual education is an educational system in which students are taught in both their native and international language. It has been practiced in various forms in different countries of the world. There are still conflicts between people in case of bilingual education because some people prefer bilingual education whereas, some refuse it, depending upon their own thoughts and reasons and they are still arguing about it. Whatever the argument is, bilingual education should be prioritized, especially in the country like United States where thousands of immigrants from all over the world are welcomed every year, because being linguistic has observable practical benefit in an increasingly globalized world rather than being monolingual. Bilingual education also helps maintaining the fluency of the native language, improving the academic proficiency of the second language learned, hence it is the better system of education. The Bilingual programs have shown many benefits academically and socially to the students. Being significant there are numerous example of people succeeding with the bilingual program; Critics like Temes and Nyika has deliberated bilingual education being effective educational program in cognitive development process of childrens.