English immersion programs

all over the world. During 2004 more or less about 5.3 percent or 2.8 million of Kinder-twelve grade students were classified as being limited in English proficiency. Most of these students came from homes where only Spanish was spoken by their parents and other family members living with them. I have chosen to do my research on “Should English immersions replace bilingual education”. This topic interested me as soon as I saw it because it is something I can relate to. When I was a child, my parents

the 1970s, almost ruling bilingual education as a requirement by President Carter; nevertheless, President Reagan turned the country against bilingual education by undoing President Carter’s proposal, cutting bilingual education funds, and enacting English-Only Laws in more states over the course of the 1980s (Jost 1039) . Despite the lingering criticism from the 1980s, President Clinton reenacts the bilingual education law in 1994; however, President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act, which

a better understanding of different cultures and a more meaningful education. In the article “The Education Effectiveness of Bilingual Education”, Rossell and Baker stated, “Bilingual education is the use of the native tongue to instruct limited-English-speaking children”, later explaining that this concept in widely used in public schools in the United States. While researching bilingual education, we found that there was a website about an organization called the National Association for Bilingual

school districts statewide are required to identify limited English Proficiency (LEP) students and adopt policies in providing programing which is mainly locally funded with some state aid. The Office for Bilingual Education and Foreign Language Studies were established in 1969. Over the last decade, there has been a growth in the number of dual language programs in the US with goals of bilingualism and biliteracy but many of these programs are expensive and exclusive. (Franklin, 2013) Texas has the

Our school systems play host to dozens of languages in addition to the standard fare of English. Starting in the late 1960s, partially as a swing off the Civil Rights Movement, school systems were required by law to provide bilingual education anytime twenty or more children spoke the same foreign language, and were found to be limited in their English proficiency. At first, the need for such programs was small, but over time it has been steadily increasing until now where the need has reached what

The goals for students in dual language education programs include high levels of bilingualism and biliteracy, academic achievement, and cross-cultural competence for all students (Lindholm-Leary, 2012). Dual language immersion programs integrate language and academic content instruction in English and a partner language to promote bilingualism and biliteracy. Heritage languages refer to the languages spoken by immigrants

skills allow people to communicate with each other and to negotiate more successfully. Foreign language skills also can be a useful tool to fill a gap between different cultures, which leads to the success in building a good business relationships. English is the accepted first language of international business, and because of this, Americans may feel foreign language is unnecessary. However, Americans who lack foreign language skills will face competition for jobs as more and more well-educated graduates

of teaching English as a language, and the two methods that people tend to subscribe to are 1) primarily focus on the technical side of the language or 2) primarily focus on the content. Stephen Krashen believed that “subconscious acquisition” of a language “is separate from conscious learning and is superior in the long run,” as H. Douglas Brown paraphrases in Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (289). As one of his hypotheses of language acquisition, he insisted that immersion into the language

We need to respect the rights of both English and French speakers. Learning a second language can expand your mind in ways seemingly unrelated to the actual communication and it has enormous benefits for your brain. There are a lot of advantages for people who can speak English and French in Canada. For example, if they want to get a better job, they should speak English and French fluently. The Canadian government wants the people to learn both English and French as well. In other words, there

English Learner Population across California and L.A.U.S.D According to California of Education (2011), 23.2 percent of total registration of students in California public schools are English language learners, and a 71 percent mainstream of these English learners are registered in the elementary grade levels with 29 percent being registered in the secondary grade levels and a less than 1 percent being put in an ungraded category, and according to LAUSD EL Data Dialog & Inquiry (2011), as of 2009