This in turn led to calls for new immigrants to assimilate by learning the language and customs of earlier arrivals. ... While wavering political support characterizes the history of bilingual education, the common thread in educating U.S. bilinguals has been that learning English has been deemed important. ... In 1997, Spanish immigrant parents in Los Angeles complained that their children were not learning English in bilingual programs (One Nation/One California, 1997). Learning of this issue, an independent activist named Ron Unz founded "English For The Children" and drafted the now famous...

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In 2005, when I moved from Poland to the United States, I did not speak English. ... I knew that I have to learn English if I want to live in USA and find a job. I started to watch English movies and listen a lot of radio programs. Slowly and progressively I have learned English. ... Overall, learning a second language can be incredible experience for children. ...

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Also, there are many other advantages to learning a language, such as having an upper-hand on understanding another culture. ... She responds to critics who claim that Americans should only need to know English and that immigrants and others should learn English before they themselves learn another language by saying that while it is important for immigrants to learn English, it is still very important that more Americans learn another language to help compete in a quickly globalizing world. ... Learning a second language helps people find a higher income job. ... He also states that there are...

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Undoubtedly, this leads to feelings of isolation for many Hispanic-American children, and this is certainly detrimental to the learning process. ... The loss of self esteem may never be made up, so that even when English is finally learned, these students feel worthless or at best second-rate. Furthermore, Spanish speaking students may not learn to read quickly or well enough in these beginning stages Learning to read is a difficult enough task to accomplish without having to learn a new language at the same time. ... Bilingual education, which employs the child's native language for ...

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The Majority of Americans living in the U.S. know English, so it only makes sense for schools to teach in English, but what about the children who do not know English. ... My girlfriend's first language is Spanish and she learned English through an ESL (English as a Second Language) in elementary. ... Even though she was taught to learn English she still kept her language. ... Gonzalez states that "Reading programs taught in English to children with Spanish as their first language waste their acquired linguistic attributes and also impede learning by forcing them to absorb skills of rea...

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The growth in international adoption and immigration has spurred a variety of communication challenges and concerns regarding bilingualism and learning English as a second language in young children. ... However, the study also illustrates the potential loss of the native language other than English by both the bilingual children and the parents striving to develop two languages. ... The investigation's results showed that U.S. born bilinguals whose first language is one other than English, and bilinguals, whose first language is English, as well as non-U.S. born bilinguals, are not neg...

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Initially, it explores a familiar ambiguity in English - "tongue" refers both to the physical organ we use for speech, and the language we speak with it. ... Furthermore, the phonetic representations of the sounds of her native language Gujerati - of alien words, helps us to experience the duality of two languages and cultures, stressing the difficulty of pronouncing and learning foreign languages, and her confusion of languages, identities and cultures. ...

• Word Count: 538
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate