Language school

1. Personal Particulars Name and Surname : Sihle Ramatosa Date of Birth : 23 February 2002 Current Age : 14 years; 4 months Gender : Male School : Potchefstroom Primary Grade : 6 Home Language : Setswana Language of Instruction at School : English Language of Instruction During Assessment : English 2. Presenting Problem Sihle is a 14 year-old boy who is currently in Grade 6. He was referred to the Institute of Psychology and Wellbeing at

Since the early 20th century, speech and language services in schools have changed profoundly in scope and focus. Speech specialists, or speech teachers work with elementary students who have mild to moderate speech impairments in the areas of fluency, voice, and articulation. Children with disabilities were placed in institutions and were not given services at all. That is no longer the case, due to a number of professional, political, and social influences. After the landmark legislative cases

“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages opens every door along the way.” This quote by Frank Smith summarizes the overall idea of this essay perfectly. This quote is something I find to be not only interesting, but truthful in many ways. That is also why I will be discussing with you the many importances of foreign languages and why it is such a crucial skill to have in modern day society. We can accomplish these divisive skills by enforcing it in our educational systems. Education

presence continuously growing, the ubiquity of foreign language should be taken more seriously. “One reason to learn them [foreign languages] is because they are tickets to being able to participate in the culture of the people who speak them, just by virtue of the fact that it is their code,” begins McWhorter of TED (McWhorter, 2016). Consequently, schools should offer foreign language classes sooner in a child’s life than freshman year of high school because this type of learning introduces them to cultural

Foreign Language, Noun: Any language used in a country other than one’s own; a language that is mostly for cultural insight. In many Middle schools taking a foreign language in does not count towards high school. Our school should allow any student’s credits of taking a foreign language in middle school, count towards high school. Students would now be required to take Spanish 3 in freshman year to make those two years in middle school count, this can be very stressful for the student. An online

countries. They are also further behind in foreign language than the rest of the world. Children are more receptive to learning when it begins at an early age. To obtain a positive and better quality of learning, foreign language should be considered in being implemented in primary school. There are many arguments as to why there should not be foreign language integration into primary school in the United States. The many challenges of the public school system are; lack of parental involvement, standardized

foreign language, the most common response is: “I took a foreign language in high school but I don’t remember it” (Why Learn a Second Language?). This response is no longer an acceptable response as communities in the United States become more diverse, full of many different languages and cultures. Foreign language is defined as “any language used in a country other than one's own; a language that is studied mostly for cultural insight,” according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Foreign language requirements

Ms. Layne, Middle school is a very important time in every child’s life. It is full of drama, bullying, relationship changes, and year long fads and phases. We captured all of that and more in our play and we used language, jokes, insults, situations, and objects that we use in our everyday lives as middle schoolers right now. Slime, Pokemon Cards, and Fidget Spinners, are all very popular items in today’s middle school world and we included all of them for authenticity, and humor in our scene. Middle

The second reason that children should be taught foreign languages at a younger age is the academic benefits while learning the language. Multiple researchers have studied the advantages that children have if they have studied a language in the past. Almost all the findings have concluded that people that learn a language at young do better academically. In Blue Linder’s discussion on the importance of teaching foreign language in schools, she states that “Children gain a deeper understanding of

I learned how to read a second language other than my mother language, and I 've practiced it for almost ten years. One might think that I was rich, and I had a private tutor for that. I wasn’t. The reason behind that is the country I moved in was too interested in providing a better educational system than any others in western countries. Before any of this happened I was a five-year-old Palestinian girl living with her parents, two brothers, and two sisters at a small house in Jordan, the country