My Experience For A Student Leader For The Languages And Colleges Residential College

Although the subject of education, study behavior, has been viewed as a personal matter, we believe race and gender played a role in it. We interviewed a Senior Latino student named Irving Alvisurez. Alvisurez is a first generation college student that came from Los Angeles, California. When he first came to UCSB, he lived in FT and there was only four Hispanics on his whole floor, this gave him more opportunity to expose to foreign cultures and experiencing culture shock. He first majored in computer science and later changed to Chicano studies. As a first generation Latino, he felt more pressure from family rather than social pressures. His statement was supported by the arguments within his family based on his change of majors multiple times,

My personal and professional lives are undoubtedly interwoven, and have been affected by my independent emigration from my native Iran at the age of 17. I knew that my desire to pursue higher education would be better fulfilled abroad, so, with the support of my parents, I decided to move to France. After I gained a degree in French language there, I moved to Los Angeles with my eyes set firmly on graduate school. The linguistic, cultural, and financial difficulties I faced during these times have played a significant role in teaching me about independence, perseverance, and resilience. Additionally, my diverse exposure to three very different cultures and languages has allowed me to become more accepting of others who are dissimilar from me, and has made better capable at communicating effectively.

Hispanic studies at Penn recognizes the importance the increasing diversity that Hispanic and Latino cultures has on English culture. Language here is a commitment to lifelong understanding of complexity in order to apply

Education serves as the greatest gateway to advancement and progress in our society. However, not all students are provided a fair opportunity to reach their full potential. To address this problem, I founded the Herndon STEM and ESOL Academy in 2014 with the hope of meeting the unaddressed needs of unaccompanied young immigrants from the 2014 American immigration crisis to the Washington DC metropolitan area. The program seeks to aid non-English speaking students in their quest to master English and to connect them to resources that can help them transition to life in the U.S. while still celebrating their culture. Our ultimate goal is for students to reach far beyond their original dreams, onto a greater future.

I have been independently studying Italian, German, French and Norwegian for the past two years beyond the limited choices offered by my high school’s World Language program. I am absolutely ecstatic to finally be able to take challenging World Language, Linguistics, and Culture Study courses with experienced professors and Graduate students. UW-Madison also boasts an impressive study abroad program that I am eager to take part in for a semester after my Sophomore year.

On September 1, 2012 I moved to Virginia, United States. Many can say that, but to me it is one of the greatest things I have done in life. Being born in Puerto Rico, an island in which Spanish is the main language, the wish of learning English was constantly in my mind. As I grew up I started to take English courses in school; however, the courses were not as effective, since I only learned the basics of English. Later on after graduating from sixth grade I was enrolled in a bilingual private school. The fact that the school was mostly in English and that it was private challenged my learning even more than in a public school. Although the school was a great one, I was doing badly accademically. It wasn’t until the school year was over that I decided to move to the state of Virginia in order to begin with my journey. A journey in which I learned many things from life and because of this experience I am preapared to overcome anything that comes between me and what I want.

The SUNY is a diverse university which has around 43% of minority students, including Hispanic/Latino, Black or African American, Asian/ Pacific Islander, ESL, and international students. Those students often encounter difficulties in English listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and understanding the Western academic culture, especially for ESL and international students. Since I received the professional training in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) in the Master’s and Ph.D. programs at the Ohio State University and have English teaching experience to diverse learners in EFL and ESL settings for around 9 years, I would like to help those minority students at the SUNY Oneota understand the Western academic culture, overcome academic difficulties they encounter, and improve their overall English competence. Helping those minority students is my short-term career goal. My long-term career goal is to increase K-12 content and ESL teachers’ and

Eric Hoover, a staff reporter for the Chronicle, profiles a community college student in Philadelphia. Wrote an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education newspaper titled ( title ) “ An Immigrant Learns Two New Languages.” In the article, Eric Hoover (tone) sets an informal tone when describing the personal hardships and achievements of Ms. Maldonato. The author (audience) targets men and women over the age of 50 who are still fixed on attending college. Ms. Maldonato, a part-time student at the Community College of Philadelphia, learned two languages after emigrating from colombia. ( Purpose ) The author intends to entertain his readers by sharing the journey that Ms Maldonato took to become a successful immigrant. ( Thesis ) To learn a language is to piece together a puzzle that is never quite done.

Joining the debate club and paying close attention to events happening around the globe made me realise my passion for international business. Furthermore, I’ve been a member of the spanish club since middle school. I am fluent in spanish language and I plan to minor in it. Being proficient in spanish will help me enormously in the university of St. Thomas because I know the university has a foreign language requirement. I have been through a lot of challenges since I moved from Nigeria that have shaped the way I think and interact with people. I adapt to situations easily and learn from my past experiences. When I arrived in Minnesota, it was winter and terribly cold. I moved from a warm and sunny place to a place that experiences winter 6 months in a year on average. I started school a few weeks after arriving, and i was immediately teased for being different and having an accent. I solved this problem the same way i solved the winter problem, by learning from the

We also believe that as our society assumes an increasingly global focus, becoming proficient in at least one foreign language is important. To attain as many foreign language skills as possible during her high school years, Kaitlyn studied Spanish concurrently for four years at Aim Academy and augmented her Spanish courses with independent study, using a variety of print and online resources. In addition to her high school Spanish language studies, she has also demonstrated great personal initiative by engaging in further independent study of other foreign

Although my undergraduate minor was Spanish, following graduation there were few opportunities to practice Spanish; therefore, I

“Hi, Nick! This is Shepard with the University of Oklahoma and I was just giving you a call—I wanted to first congratulate you. We’re going to be sending you a contract offer of admissions.” (Shepard). It was this voicemail that started my journey here at the University of Oklahoma. When I arrived at the University of Oklahoma, I was unsure what to expect in an academic setting. However, after experiencing several discussion sections of varying classes, I developed a better understanding of how language played a role in academics. Although I knew that my social language would be different in an academic setting as compared to a social setting, it was not until I took English composition that I was fully able to understand the significance of that language plays in education. Because of my experiences at the University of Oklahoma, I now comprehend that, in an academic setting, patience, professionalism, and interaction are all necessary forms of language that must be used in order to fully grasp elements of education that are not written inside of textbooks.

In “Inventing the University,” David Bartholomae discusses how students are having to conform to their university’s vernacular to sound more educated than they actually are (1). Bartholomae enforces this thesis decisively through personal experience as through his doctoral studies and his current professorship at the University of Pittsburgh; when students have to become “a member of the academy [to] an historian [to either] an anthropologist or an economist” (2). The only way for them to be successful in those types of classes is through describing concepts or terms that their professors would use. A major may not even require the usage of an anthropologists’ skillset or the use of knowing specific dates when Christopher Columbus discovered

If I were fortunate enough to receive the scholarship that the “From a Different Perspective” organization, it would be an opportunity of a lifetime if I were able to embark France. If I were given this special opportunity, I would choose to embark Provence – Alpes – Côte d’Azur, a region in Southeastern France and formerly known as Provence. When I am visiting Provence, I will be staying in Marseille, which is the capital of Provence – Alpes – Côte d’Azur. This city is located on the South coast of France, beside the Mediterranean Sea. I am choosing to stay here because of the cultural diversity that surrounds the coastline. I am very interested in being close to the water and the Mediterranean Sea has a very beautiful view. Marseille is the second largest city

Jim McKay, a graduate from the University of Washington, with a degree in English, did not expect the reality that hit him when he went searching for a job. McKay wasn’t hired for any of the jobs he considered English major related. The newspaper wouldn’t hire him, nor would his university, nor a beer company as a sales