Bilingual Identification Report

There are about 7,000 languages in the world today. In America, there are 350 languages alone. However, only about 25% of Americans can speak a language other than english. Despite the majority of Americans being monolingual, 43% of the nation believes it is important to learn a second language. Being bilingual has many benefits for the future. Knowledge of foreign languages can expand career potentials, help improve one's native language, and can aid opportunities to travel and experience new culture. Learning a foreign language is one of the most beneficial experiences for people in the future.

At my prestigious private school, for the three years of my attendance I heard students complain of how much they disliked it, including myself. It wasn’t that we didn’t appreciate the amazing education we were receiving. For private school kids, we were actually pretty good about recognizing how lucky we were. No, instead of hating school for the homework or difficult classes, we each complained about our peers and their exclusivity, the malicious gossip, or how we wished that everyone could forget their notions of who we were and let us break the mold we unconsciously formed for ourselves in middle school. In such a small school, the self-conscious, immature version of yourself from childhood followed you around long after you even vaguely resembled it. People still felt the sting of the sarcasm I had used to defend myself years before. Though I had long since become a kind, sincere person, I was remembered for the instances when I had been the

I grew up in a very religious household with both of my parents behind the wheel. My parents are very religious people and they believe deeply in Gods existents. So in result, my parents want me and my siblings to be just like them. As soon as possible I was enrolled into a Catholic school called Saint Mary’s Ballston Spa. Saint Mary’s was a catholic private school that taught kindergarten through fifth grade. This is where I learned all about

The state of Texas has specific regulations for their Bilingual and English as a Second language programs. These programs are a vital part of the Texas Education system as it supplies the educational needs that students with limited proficiency in the English language need to be successful. The TEC states that all English language learners will be provided with the opportunity to participate in a bilingual or ESL education. In these programs, they will be taught though instructional approaches that were specially created for the unique needs of English language learners.

The way I would answer my research question is by finding information on bilingual people and whether or not they had any struggles knowing or speaking two languages. I can also look up articles in social justice and literacy to give me a vivid background on both topics to tie it to my topic I chose. I will also be using the two articles by Tan and Anzaldua because they were both bilingual and both having interesting experiences they shared with the readers and these articles will help answer my question. I plan on finding all my resources through the library’s catalog and also looking up online to find articles, personal stories, statistics, or any website that will provide me more information on my topic. Some fields I can use are psychology,

Before I had moved to college, I lived in Mattoon, where diversity was basically non-existent.. Upon arriving at the university, I found myself immersed in a completely new world, full of diversity and opportunity. It was here that a met my first friend and roommate, with whom I connected well to. They had told me their previous life-story, which involved heavy drama and traumatic experiences. Although my friend had witnessed some atrocious things throughout life, I was able to provide a sense of comfort and connection throughout and we are currently close friends, and currently is gender-neutral (hence they/them pronouns). On campus, there was someone who used to work in student personnel that was a Christian, while I considered myself to

Being a person of strong mindedness and being very strong willed, i fought for what i believed in and what i believed was that Christianity was a superior religion in an extent; I thought Catholicism was, in a sense, some religion based off of Christianity used in the wrong sense. I did not get the point of “telling our sins” to a “Priest” or going to Mass and most of their core values bothered me to a point where i refused to pay attention or even want to participate in my Religion class. As a part of our grade, we are required to keep a journal, in my journal i would write out my frustrations and why i refuse to participate. I would question the teacher in class and verbally express how much i thought Catholicism was a “weird” Religion. I am

Soon after my birth, overwhelmed by their work schedule, my parents reluctantly sent me to China to live with my grandparents. At age four, I came back speaking only Chinese.

“What are you?” This is one of the toughest questions for me to answer, and probably the one I get asked the most by strangers. It’s completely understandable- to strangers my outward appearance is confusing and startling- African-American facial features accompanied with a very light complexion and huge, curly hair. I wouldn’t know what to think either.

In a team that counts 19 person, we work on organizing one major conference where we teach young students about global issues, politics and diplomacy. We push them into a moderated debate where they follow certain rules of procedures, where they learn how behave diplomatically, think logically, and discover logical fallacies in other members’ speech. My tasks basically focus on searching potential sponsors, contact them and try to set a sponsorship agreement with them, also one of my major tasks is to promote the Initiative’s media image, by attending Radio and TV shows, write articles and send them to different newspaper periodically. After the main event we organize open doors in different cities, where I have to search local sponsors and

Freshman year of high-school was a far different learning environment than the school I attended prior. Public high-school students have vast ethnic backgrounds, and personalities that I had never been with. Before high-school I was a student at the small Catholic school called Cathedral. For the most part my friends had the same or similar ethnic backgrounds that I had, and we all shared the same religion of Catholicism. Going into Ninth grade I was -albeit a little naive- and amazed at how many differing religious backgrounds and ethnicities all the students had, however I was greatly surprised when someone spoke out on how they thought their religious belief was right, and others were wrong.

After serving as an English language instructor to refugee populations in Amman, Jordan, I have realized how bilingual education improves the quality of educational services and the socioeconomic stability of ethnic minority peoples in the region. I believe that the role of inter-agency organizations and local community based organizations hold significant weight in enhancing bilingual practices and working alongside local governments to institute national policies that recognize the cultural and language knowledge of all individuals. Moreover, local governments can stress the importance of language policies and practices, proposed by international organizations, including the United Nations Education, Scientific, Cultural Organizations (UNESCO)

The task is to identify which group, the monolinguals, bilinguals, or multilinguals #1 or #2, performs better overall on four major neuropsychological tests: general intelligence, visuospatial abilities, executive ability, and memory. All groups are compared to each other to detect if there are statistically significant differences in scores, which will lead to the conclusion that that group enjoys the most cognitive benefits. For the test of general intelligence, the neuropsychological test WAIS-III is used. WAIS-III is composed of verbal and performance subtests and provides three overall scores: verbal IQ, performance IQ, and full-scale IQ (Taylor, 2001) . For visuospatial abilities, the Complex Figures Test is used, and more specifically

The need of least biased assessment approaches for bilingual children has been a growing concern for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) the last few years. Many times, bilingual children are assessed on the same standards as those of English monolingual speakers. Both children have very distinct backgrounds and the rate at which one learns English is very different from the other. English monolinguals grasp the language at a much quicker rate as opposed to bilinguals who must learn two different language rules and apply them in the correct context of the situation. The lack of least biased assessment approaches combined with the difficulty of balancing two languages for bilinguals calls upon misdiagnosing children. When bilingual children

Attending school facilitates a process of maturing because students brings life experiences that have exposed them to multiple perspectives and ideas that differ from the values, traditions or beliefs of others. At times these diverse beliefs and outlooks may cause conflicts among classmates, co-workers, bosses, and perhaps school administrators. Our upbringing also affects the way we deal with the challenges of working and interacting with others on a daily basis not just in school, but also in other settings. My particular individual situation involved unique circumstances and resulted in outcomes that included confusion, contradiction, and frustration. I have worked with students and instructors at school for much of my life and in a