English Language Education : A Means Of Liberation And A Passport From The Gateway Of Prosperity

As our nation shifts towards a more culturally diverse population both educators and families have to find a common ground to ensure that English Language Learners are academically successful. All stakeholders must carefully consider the social cultural impact on an ELL education. The process of raising bilingual learners take more than a language a school and a language learned at home. The transition must have a purpose and a goal.

* support structures for learning and language development at home and at school (NALDIC, 1999)

The creation of schools is one of the leading ways to produce hope and stability in refugee camps. Many would love to go to school because, currently they have no other option, but to teach themselves. Refugees can recall having great memories of their past school experiences, which they use as motivation to continue to learn. On account of my involvement with a refugee relief organization, I have been assigned the job of creating schools in the Chechen refugee camps of Chechnya. The primary means of survival and daily focus for these refugees have been through humanitarian aid. That assistance is made

Although bilingual education has some merit, avoiding the implementation of the more popular language of a community is detrimental to the incorporation of mostly you people in society and hinders their ability to develop a keen sense of identity. For example, "language gets learned as it gets used (7).” In other words, one masters the language as he speaks it. Speaking and language skills tend to sharpen if they are used regularly. Rodriguez argues that learning both languages and using them rather than leaving one begins to lead to a better sense of identity and freedom. But according to Rodriguez it makes one become insecure, growing up

The school system do not take in consideration that ELL students not only have a language barrier that prevent them from performing on the standardized tests, but that they are transitioning from a completely different learning environment. ELL students are also classified as poor academic performers because of their language barrier. This language barrier explain the academic achievement gaps between ELL students and native english-speaking students. The test scores are not sufficient proof to argue that ELL students have a gap in academic achievement. This is questionable to the validity of the standardized tests on ELL students.(Youth)

The authors of the article explained how important it is to meet the needs of the students with limited English ability in the education system. One of the main point expresses about how frustrating it could be for these students, especially if they were never expose to this sort of environment or language before. Another point that was made in the article, explains how the educational system was not prepared for changes in this sort of population. In most cases, some of the curriculum that is being offered in school cannot be changed to accommodate English Limited Learners, also known as ELLs. Budget is also another issue, as schools are limited to hiring more ELL teachers.

Under these circumstances school and education are taking a big part in refugees’ lives for example it says, “I know Pink Boy will get me, but right now I feel smart” (Lai 188). This statement from the book “Inside Out and Back Again” represents how Ha is feeling back home again. She gets to go to school and feels smart just like she did back home. Ha is now becoming happier and feels like she is getting her life back. In the same way schooling and education are making refugees feel back again in the article “Refugees: Who, Where, Why” when it says, “Schooling is provided for children” (Gevert). This statement shows how schooling is helping refugees all over feel like they are back home again. They can get educated from the refugee camps. They may be overcrowded, but it is helping many refugees get a chance for there lives back. It helps refugees feel like there is hope on the other side waiting for them. In addition schooling and education is helping refugees when it says, “Getting better because we can go to school… couldn’t… in Croatia because we are muslims” (Lai ). This statement comes from the book “Inside Out and Back Again“ and is representing how Ha is now able to go to school, and doesn’t have to worry about her race. She feels like she belongs where she is now, and nobody can take that away from her. Given these points,

How I feel about the argument in the text of learning english is it would be hard to do daily tasks around the community. The argument thats been amplified to know is to speech the language is everything. A assumption about learning english is people want to study the language to have a better career to start a better life there are programs like ELS allowing immigrant and refuges to study english as their second language. However, ESL program takes time to learn and immigrant and refuges don’t have the time with the long hours of work to the busy schedules. A viewpoint about learning a new language would be very hard on me and the pressure of feeling like the outsider of a new country. The purpose for me to read about the language struggle

English language learners and partnerships with families, communities, teacher preparation, and schools is an article within the Handbook of Urban Education written by Ana Christina Dasilva Iddings, Mary Carol Combs and Luis C. Moll which focus on creating partnerships with families, communities, teacher preparation and schools to help English Language Learners become more successful in school.

Bilingualism and home language can be encouraged by the educator to ensure that the student learns successfully. As an ELL student it can be a challenge to learn a new language, this is why educators should allow students to use their first language to promote a meaningful connection with the second language that is being learned. At home it is quite evident that ELL students communicate using their primary language, therefore at school it is a complete turnaround. Educators, at this point can promote literacy skills in which the native language is used, but then transferred into skills that are valuable to learn English. The home language use in effect influences English learning in maintenance of cognitive aspects in bilingualism by the ELL students (Academic Writing Tips, 2011). For example, encouraging collaboration and peer groups of students of the same academic level, but of various cultures, will promote the student to use their language sparingly, but also become familiar with the second language. ELL students have to have the confidence and courage to learn a second language and develop the literacy skills that are involved in learning, this is when parental and community resources should be available to incorporate English acquisition skills.

This, however, ignores that fact that Gazans like this family are the poorest of all Palestinian refugees in Jordan. Thus the combination of limited scholarships, high university costs, and Gazans’ low income means that post secondary education is simply too costly an ambition. (Perez 415)

However, the first challenge is education. Refugees, immigrants’ parents, and children face this obstacle. Raising children in a new different school, language, culture, friends, and society would be challenging for parents and children in terms of education. In the begging, the children will find struggles in their school mostly; if they are unable to speak English. In other words, and according to Nunez, “kids are usually placed by their age in school level rather than their English ability, and for the kids who are unable to speak English they will probably not be able to keep up” (6). Also, the parents would not be able to help or solve their kid’s struggles; “parents may not have the education or language skills to assist

Training for a common society: Language as a Cultural Bridge – the foundation of The Abraham Fund Education for a Shared Society Initiative – attempts to command the instructing of Arabic dialect and society for all Jewish understudies in Israel's government funded schools, while advancing Hebrew dialect and society in Arab schools. As of now achieving more than 25,000 primary school-matured kids crosswise over Israel, The Abraham Fund is helping Jewish and Arab adolescents acknowledge and regard the dialect

Language is a key part of any family, community, culture and the human race. Without language the world today would be much different. From cavemen, to the Egyptian use of hieroglyphics, to Old English, to more than 6,500 languages spoken around the world today, the advances that humans have made in language is remarkable and inspiring. The ability to speak, read, write and understand more than one language is also remarkable and expands the liberties in life, especially for young people. High school students should be required to take at least two years of a foreign language class in order to graduate, as many recent studies support the benefits of doing so. Students who have learned a foreign language in high school have proven to have a

With the development of living standard in society, studying aboard has become more and more popular. Not only because of English as the world language is an agent to connect countries, but also speaking English fluently will be beneficial for the future personal development. In order to study oversea smoothly, the first step is to go through the language--English. Generally speaking, English has been divided into two different types according to the purposes which are English for Academic Purpose (EAP) and General English (GE). It is obvious that EAP teaches the knowledge which will be suitable for a higher education whereas GE is mainly focus on daily communications. Therefore, the teaching style or perhaps teacher’s role in the class is also different. In this essay, the writer will illustrate two different classifications by Harmer and Scrivener, after compare and contrast the two the teacher’s role, the writer will select one of the classification and justify it. Finally, the chosen classification will be put into practice ( justifying with the radios provided).