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    The most effectiveness of education that stood up for me is Immersion Bilingual Education. I have the same experiences as the example of second language learning. “One of the limitations of immersion bilingual education is that for some students, the second language can become a school phenomenon. Outside the school walls, immersion students tend not to use the second language any more than ‘drip feed’ students (Swain & Johnson,1997) (Baker and Wright, 2017 p.257). This is very accurate to describe

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    part is not working well, it affects the entire system. Social Workers are able to analyze, interpret data and work with community groups and leaders to find solutions to improve the workings of that community to its full potential. This community immersion analysis will focus on its community’s social agencies, diversity and cultural richness. Systems Theory applies to this area as the macro system of this community’s main downtown street is filled with stores, restaurants, cultural establishments

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    her), it suggested that prompts be applied more to improve lower-level learners’ performance. Interaction is a two-way communication under the sociocultural theory promoting consciousness. From Swain and Lapkin’s (1998) study of two grade 8 French immersion students performing a jigsaw task, when students work out the story line and face linguistic problems, they use L1 and L2 to

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    Bilingual Education vs. English Immersion in California Growing up in a Mexican household, I had the fortune of speaking two languages. The first language I first mastered was Spanish and then came English as I entered primary school. My hometown is predominantly Hispanic, and in the area I live in is mostly Mexican. When one drives around the cracked streets of East Salinas, one can feel the strong presence of the Mexican culture. On one side, one can hear the man in a cowboy hat blasting Banda

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    America has always been a place where people from all over the world have strived to travel in hopes of creating a better and more promising future for themselves. In today’s classrooms, teachers are experiencing the culture and language related effects of that endeavor. With an increasing amount of non-English speakers entering the country each year, the population of students who speak English as a second language or no English at all increases as well. Not only are these students entering with

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    In activity 17.3.2 we weighed out 150g of chilled water and 150g of pat dried ice and we put it into a styrofoam cup along with an immersion heater, and a temperature sensor. We recorded the data on LoggerPro and as the experiment is running, we continuously stirred the mixture; We ran this experiment for roughly 16 minutes; We saw that the ice was melting and once it was completely melted, the water started to get warmer and boil, we also observed steam from the water. Analyzing our data, we compared

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    Jewish Cultural Immersion: Through my Eyes To become an effective counselor to Jewish Americans or any race or diverse population is to be aware of one’s thoughts and opinions concerning racism and racial advantage, as well increase knowledge of culture’s different from oneself (Hays & Erford, 2014). Jewish Americans are referred to those Caucasian individuals who have immigrated to the United States from another country, such as Eastern Europe (Hays and Erford, 2014). In this paper, I will identify

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    ual immersion education aims for students to become fluent in two languages, English and whichever language they are enrolled in. This education is done through a program where students are exposed to two languages in the classroom. Dual immersion education is beginning to expand towards more cities and needs to be better financed. As it expands, the popularity grows resulting in more parents becoming aware of the program and then wanting it offered at their child’s school. Dual immersion education’s

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    different identities and how will you foster a community that recognizes and appreciates these differences? (please limit answer to 400 words) From the time I was in preschool until I graduated high school, I was a part of the Hawaiian language immersion program, or Kula Kaiapuni. This program offers students the opportunity to receive a public education taught completely in the Hawaiian language. As a Native Hawaiian, I felt it was necessary for me to complete the program in order for me to connect

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    I contemplated for a long time on where I would do my cultural immersion experience. I wanted to go somewhere where I was an outsider in a part of my own culture. It was then that I realized I didn’t have to go far for this assignment. For as long as anyone can remember, my family has been Catholic. Despite that, I have never been to church and I don’t know much of anything about Catholicism. My mother suggested going to St. Charles Borromeo Church, the church that she and my father belong to.

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