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Bilingual Education Programs Subject Matter
1,124 wordsArguments For and (Bogus) Arguments Against Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics It is helpful to distinguish two goals of bilingual education. The first is the development of academic English and school success, and the second is the development of the heritage language. Good bilingual education programs achieve both goals, but my focus in this report is on the first. Confusion about the first goal is understandable: How can children acquire English, their second langua...
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Parallel Language Development In Deaf And Hearing Children
1,451 words... regulation. Hearing children use private speech for all these activities. In another study, Jamieson (1995) examined the use of private speech between two groups of deaf children. One group consisted of three deaf children with hearing mothers, and one consisted of three deaf children with deaf mothers. All mother-child dyads that included hearing mothers came from homes where English was the primary language, while all dyads that included deaf mothers used ASL as the primary language in the...
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Bilingual Education Programs English Language Learners
1,190 wordsThe Official Language Movement The Hispanic American minority includes the Spanish-speaking people from Spain, Mexico, Caribbean Islands, and Central and South America; the three largest Hispanic groups in the country are the Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and the Cubans. According to Morton Winsberg, a professor of geography at Florida State University in Tallahassee, these three ethnic groups comprise three-fourths of the total U. S. Hispanic population while the rest of the other groups are Brazilia...
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Language Minority Students York Cambridge University
3,109 wordsThe Study The participant was my daughter, Amy. As soon as she arrived in Hawaii, USA, from Mainland China in July 1998, I began observing how she reacted to the new environment and how she adjusted to it. Over a five-month period (July-November, 1998) I kept a journal of what she did (about 35, 000 words either in English or in Chinese), sometimes on the spot and sometimes upon recollection, and tape-recorded the conversations between us on three tapes. Amy was 12 when she came to Hawaii. She h...
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Mother Tongue Speak English
881 wordsPeople will face a lot of difficulty, when they learn a language that is not his first language. One of the big obstacles is that there is a culture gap that makes the language is even more difficult to learn. The essays Hunger of memory and Mother Tongue contain good and bad examples on how to learn a new language. In the process of learning English, I admire the article Mother Tongue rather then the article Hunger of Memory because it gives me a new insight, and it teaches me a good attitude. ...
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Gulf Of Mexico Sierra Madre
1,819 wordsMexico is the largest Spanish-speaking country and the second-largest Roman Catholic nation in the world. It extends from the 14 th to the 32 d parallel north of the equator in southern North America. Brazil and Argentina are the only Latin American countries that exceed it in area. The United States borders Mexico on the north, while Guatemala and Belize are found on the southeast, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea on the east, and the Pacific Ocean on the west and south. The countrys na...
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Visible Minorities Speaking Canadians
1,268 wordsIs sovereignty a viable option for Quebec? From the days of Upper and Lower Canada up until the Much Lake accord and Charlottetown agreements, there have been never-ending conflicts between Quebec and the federal government. For decades, Canada has been hearing cries of salvation for a dying language and a repressed culture. The Quebecois have, over the years, fought passionately to have their demands for special status met by Canada, but beyond the emotional statements of a culture fearing exti...
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