Despite heated debate, American adults are being pressured to learn different languages to better communicate in the workplace and American students are being required to take a foreign language course in school, even though Americans are not leaving the country. ... (tell about the how much harder it is for children to learn a new language when they are older) More American students are studying foreign language than ever before. American students are becoming increasingly annoyed with the fact that students must take a foreign language course in order to graduate. Many high schools and ...

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American students should be required to learn a second language from an early age because it helps with cognitive skills, positively impacts foreign affairs and provides a better chance at achieving a higher income job. ... " Additionally she says that students who are learning a second language outperform students who are not, both in verbal and mathematics scores on standardized testing. ... In the study students who had time taken away from mathematics to study a second language outperformed students in mathematics when compared to students who did not study a language and had all th...

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Detractors argue that such programs require the Mexican-American student to maintain ties to two languages, causing confusion and learning difficulties. Other supporters argue that a working knowledge of two languages serves as useful preparation for a student's years after high school. ... According to Klein, many teachers who are uncertified or poorly trained serve to hinder the education of the student, because the Spanish-speaking student relies on the teacher's knowledge of two languages to help in the process of learning the English language. ... The expectation of many scho...

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Firstly, students might misunderstand the meaning or not find the right world. ... Translating into the target language also can help learn to think in that language. ... They learn paradigms such as verb conjugations, and they learn the native language equivalents of vocabulary words. ... Here the teacher and the students are more like partners in the learning process while in the other method the teacher is a kind of authority so the students do as he conducts. However, it is also important that students get the correct answer. ...

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I support bilingual education because it can be an effective pathway for foreign language speakers to learn the English language. ... According to Hadi-Tabassum, "Two-way immersion (TWI) bilingual education is an integrated language immersion program in which students who speak a majority language, such as English, study and learn together in the same classroom with students who speak a minority language.Both the language majority and language minority students learn the two languages simultaneously and acquire academic content knowledge through both L1 (English) and L2 (Spanish, Korean, ...

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In this particular situation, Non- native English speaker teachers are people who decided to learn a second language, and they have studied the language, the culture and the origins of a particular place around the world. ... The cultures, the language, the belief, the origins they have are different from what we have here in our country and this person has the challenge to learn about our country (Mahboob, 2010). ... Furthermore, during my practicum period at school, I have heard that to learn English is not important because they will not use it after finishing the school. ... Often, I thi...

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Another reason that immigrants may not have sought assistance to learn the English language is that they have not been provided with inviting or affordable resources. ... Students need to feel safe where they are learning, especially ESL students, since they are so vulnerable. ... All students should be interacting with each other regardless of the language they are used to speaking. ... As discussed before, no child is the same, therefore they do not learn the same way and teachers must come up with new ways for the ESL students to show what they understand. ... In order to properly accommod...

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Genie was able to learn a large vocabulary, including abstract and concrete terms, but she had a lot of trouble with grammar. ... The success and fluency of students varies from program to program. ... Students learn about the languages as well as the cultures. While the students do not achieve the same proficiency as for the other two programs, the FLEX program provides students with a solid basis for further foreign language study. Students in FLEX programs also seem to develop a more native-like pronunciation than students who are not exposed to foreign languages during elementary school. ...

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It is assumed that L2 English learners have 'no prior knowledge' and need to learn standard English, so they should be taught 'real' English as opposed to the 'locally acquired deviation' (Jenkins 67-68). ... This is advantageous to learners because of the shared teacher-student experience where the teacher can provide an 'appropriate and attainable model for their students' as well as 'understand the educational, social and cultural contexts in which they are working' (Jenkins 121). ... Another problem of L1-based English tests is that...

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Students have an easier time learning a foreign language such as English because at a young age it is easier to learn a new language, so they should start learning English for three years in high school. ... First of all, students use English for communication. ... Moreover, students can use English when they go to travel aboard. ... Secondly, a foreign language can be used for students' future careers. ... In addition, students will have chances to get good jobs when they graduated because most job applications usually require students to have a great knowledge of English skill, so job v...

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During the early 2000's we were hit with the No Child Left Behind Act, which ironically left ELL students behind, because states now had the right to set its own policies regarding ELL students. ... If the students were low performing they would shamefully get little to no Science instruction and the students that were meeting their performance goals would be able to have access to Science instruction. ... The blend was successful because the students were able to use a subject such as science and use the content as to read and write using academic vocabulary as well as learn the science ...

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During the early 2000's we were hit with the No Child Left Behind Act, which ironically left ELL students behind, because states now had the right to set its own policies regarding ELL students. ... If the students were low performing they would shamefully get little to no Science instruction and the students that were meeting their performance goals would be able to have access to Science instruction. ... The blend was successful because the students were able to use a subject such as science and use the content as to read and write using academic vocabulary as well as learn the science ...

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It is very obvious that children do not learn a language by simply memorizing but by imitating their elders. ... If you are moving to different hemisphere, the need to learn a new language might be needed. ... These beliefs are usually based on previously learned experiences and this is the best way for them to learn. ... All of the students were inhabitant speakers of English studying their heritage language as a second language. These results showed that the overhearers acquired a more native-like accent than the other students did. ...

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An important factor in deciding this question is whether bilingual programs are more effective than English Only programs in raising student academic achievement. ... This act provided for the education of students of "limited English speaking ability" (Wiese & Garcia, 1998, p. 1). ... Also important in the movement to obtain educational equality for bilingual students was the Supreme Court Case Lau v. ... The Supreme Court ruled that under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, all students have a right to equality in education, and non-English speaking students are not given an equal education just b...

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Second example is that only 6.5 percent of the students who are re-classified as fluent in English come from a group of students, only a third of whom are in bilingual programs and most of whom are in the kind of English-only programs mandated by Proposition 227. ... Some proponents take a step further and claim that denying bilingual education is discrimination against minority students. ... They site the research that shows that sheltered English immersion is the most effective method of helping non-English speaking children learn English. ... Hence, it is only fair that unified program be o...

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What sort of contexts (students, courses and institutions) are implied by the books/sections? ... All students share the same accent and probably the same mispronunciations. All the time, students struggle to gain a native-like pronunciation. ... Moreover, these students are the ones reaching our classrooms as actual teachers, therefore, the struggle is not vanished. ... Taylor (1993:2) adds to this matter and states that "While one would hesitate to say that any aspect of intonation is not learnable, it certainly seems to be the case that some aspects at least are not teachable, in as m...

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Most researchers agree that a child who is exposed to two languages at an early age, and simultaneously, will naturally learn to use both languages. ... It is also possible to learn a second language sometime after early childhood, but the older you get, the harder it is to learn to speak a new language as well as a native speaker. ... Under this view, the structure of the brain changes at puberty, and after that it becomes harder to learn a new language. This means that it is much easier to learn a second language during childhood than as an adult. ... In many European countries, children ...

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Consequently, it may be impossible for students to use the language appropriately without culture awareness. ... Furthermore, while communicating in foreign language, students are easily influenced by their mother tongue, which is deeply rooted and works subconsciously even when they have learned some history, geography and literature of English- speaking countries. ... Thirdly, social skills, which enable students to communicate with the target language community, are also referred as culture in the pragmatic sense. ... The analysis of the data indicated that the idea of using contexts famil...

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The only difference may be the diversity of words they could learn. ... To support this view, we may have a look at our students who are outstanding in pronunciation. ... (Brown: 116) While the motivation of classroom students, child or adult, most probably be instrumental, i.e. they learn a language as an academic course, there are other possibilities for both children and adults. For example, adults could learn a foreign language because they like the target culture, or they want to migrate to the community that speak the target language. Similarly, children may learn it because their parent...

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If there is a learner whose target language is little behind from other learners', teacher should consider this point and speak little slowly to that student so he/she could get less burden of learning new language. ... In our presentation, our goal was to show the audience that the teacher and learner have a close interaction so the learners could learn a new language in a non-defensive and non-competitive atmosphere. ...

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There is one faction that claims it makes foreigners feel accommodated and accommodated and also to facilitate the learning of thousands on non-English speaking students who go for studies. ... Considering the number of non-English speaking immigrants and the number of non-citizen students in the United States, bilingualism should not be an option but a civil right so that no group feels sidelined The controversy over bilingual was partly whether bilingual education programs should be introduced into the system. ... Proponents of bilingual education assert that any non-English speaking studen...

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However, have you ever wondered what influences the choice of which language to learn in addition to our mother tongue? ... In countries such as Nigeria, French is a compulsory part of the curriculum for students from grade one to nine (1-9). ...

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