Bilingual Education Program Analysis

Se Habla Español is an article written by Tanya Maria Barrientos. She describes the struggles she dealt with while attempting to

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.

I taught for 25 years at an inner city school. My students were all second language learners, and often their parents were totally illiterate. I entered this career not as a teacher, but as a social worker turned teacher. The Los Angeles Unified School District was in dire need of bilingual educators, so they offered a district intern program where I took college courses while I worked in the classroom.

The primary goal of any school district’s English Language Learner policy should be to ensure that all students receive equitable access to the curriculum. The Office of Civil Rights memorandum (May 25, 1970) requires school districts to take affirmative steps to provide equal access to instructional program for students with limited English proficiency. The Illinois Constitution guarantees every child from kindergarten through grade 12, access to a free public education; which means, regardless of a child’s home language, he/she deserves a free and appropriate education (Illinois State Board of Education, 1998).

Linda had an easier time learning English than her parents did because of help she received at school. Upon enrolling in public school in the third grade, Linda was immediately sent to ESL class where she quickly picked up on the new language. Her parents, on the other hand, had a more difficult time adapting to American culture and the English language. Linda’s parents started out working low-wage jobs and eventually, through hard work and dedication, saved enough money to open their own travel-agency business. Linda’s father even had to enroll in language school in addition to his undergraduate education in order to increase his chances of

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.

Even though English is her native language, she became fascinated by learning other languages, particularly Spanish, when she was in high school and was taking her first foreign language class. She took Spanish I, II, and III during high school and decided to continue her pursuit in developing the language even further when she went to college. She said that she taught Spanish on the high school level for a few years but then later took a position working at an elementary school. At that particular school, she saw a number of students coming in with their parents and neither the parents nor children spoke very much English. She usually would be the one who had to translate to the appropriate people to help out. So she saw that need and decided that she wanted to help in that capacity and therefore lead her to what she has been doing for the past eight years.

She vowed never to return to the abject poverty that she had lived into in her own country. Aren further enrolled in a child care class and upon graduating, she was able to secure a job as a nanny for an affluent

years of her life. In those 17 years spent there she learnt how to speak english, and was beaten

I remember bursting out in tears running to my mom’s room and telling her how much of

-It is a place where students come if they don’t have food and their parents don’t have the money to buy food

My mom came to America and stayed with her big sister for couple years and took classes and made friends who taught her English. She wasn’t fluent,but at least she could understand english better. My mom got encouraged by some friends to attend Catholic University She left my aunt, who didn’t want her to attend college(don’t ask why) and

“Parents force schools to speak English--only”, it sparks the audience's’ attention by the title alone. Focuses on schools managing their parents’ expectations for their children to get into a good college and get a good education. Discusses how people and or parents of the students who sought the need for a common language to be taught through all the schools in the state of California. Additionally, it discussed and elaborated how that many of the teaches that taught the bilingual programs, were not certified for the job. Therefore, the end of the bilingual programs in schools, brought change to the California school system, that even reflects in the present day about education in

Besides the tight quarters, culture differences and language obstacles (she could understand better than she could speak), she excelled and succeeded.

Bilingual education is an academic approach followed by some instructors, which is using the native language for new English learners for instructions. Within the international context, bilingual education has become a necessity due to the high number of immigration, colonialism and the great number of local languages (Yushau & Bokhari, 2005). This approach in instruction has reflected back positively or negatively in many dimensions such as social, psychological, and pedagogical. However, bilingual instruction is an effective way of teaching English as a second language, in case of well implementation it can be seen as an educational advantage. This literature covers a wide variety of opinions that revolves around a topic that researchers find it controversial, this review will highlight the major question and findings which emerge in