SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD A BILINGUAL ENVIRONMENT IN SCHOOLS 指導教授: 張玉玲 博士 Advisor: Dr. Ye-ling Chang 研究生: 呂淑文 撰 Graduate: Shu-Wen Lu 中 華 民 國 九 十 五 年 十 一 月 November 2006 Significance of the Study The reason why this study is significant can be explained from three aspects. First, this study investigates Junior high school students’ perceptions, attitudes, viewpoints, and their participation towards the bilingual environment. Consequently, this research
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In chapter 3, Teaching Your Diverse Students, I learned many things that affect me as an educator. An important fact that interested me a lot was that the primary goal of multicultural education, it is to help students in school with diverse cultures, social class, racial and ethnic groups have an equal opportunity to learn like others. This can affect me as an educator because I will be able to help diverse students to achieve more positive attitudes toward different ethnic groups to integrate them
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official language movement has created a lot of controversy in both education and politics. Even former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, said "Citizenship requires passing a test on American History in English. If that’s true, we do not have to create ballots in any other language except English," (2007). Mr. Gingrich also stated that to allow bilingualism will pose long term dangers to our nation and that bilingual education should be replaced with immersion in English. There is even debate
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Texas Undocumented Students And Education Policy EDU 365 Politics of American Education September 3, 2012 The society group of undocumented immigrant students has impacted education policy in many ways over the last ten years, especially the Border States that are so highly affected such as; California, Arizona, and Texas. In this paper I will focus on Texas and how these policies including the rights of the students, funding issues, and language barriers have impacted the way in which
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address students’ unique backgrounds could result in a large portion of the future adult population of this country who cannot participate successfully as global citizens. Academic experiences and parental perceptions impact students’ attitudes toward education. To create enthusiastic, lifelong learners, effective teachers show students that what they are learning in school will equip them with the knowledge, confidence, and skills necessary to have fulfilling lives. Teachers’ expectations have a powerful
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There is considerable debate among educators, parents, policymakers, and researchers on how to best ensure the academic success of ELLs (Calderon, Salvin & Sanchez, 2011). One key factor in this debate, that is often political, is the language of instruction in schools (Reyes, 2011) because politics and pedagogy are difficult to separate emotionally. Language is more than just a set of words. Language and cognitive development are inseparable (Collier & Thomas, 2009) and teachers of ELLs must be
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with many people speaking English and their native language as well. In the small biography about Martin Espada, he talks about him battling bilingualism and trying to integrate the spanish language into American society. Espada believes that being bilingual gives people of sense of power, a little advantage over people who only
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309 Chinese. The six K-12 schools in the Russell County School District/my local school, offers about 25 ELLs education in English as a Second Language, in addition, assistance in reading, math and writing. The county also offers after school tutoring in basic skills. The Russell County School District’s classrooms are exclusively conducted in English, but the aim of the education department is to teach English language learners in the earliest possible time so that they, the learners can participate
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Hi Dr. Bahar Otcu-Grillman and Classmates, As shown in the two videos, the subject of Bilingual Education is one of the major issues that changed the learning structure in the United States. The Lau vs. Nichols video depicts the case of the Chinese Americans students living in the state of San Francisco with limited English proficiency. The students felt that they did not receive special help in their learning institutions because of their inability to speak English. They felt they had the entitlement
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Humans have the ability to acquire a language that is necessary to defend them in their daily living. The domain of a language code will vary according to their social needs and opportunities that people have. In the process of planning a language education, it is vital to explore the social context to determine their real need to learn the language and the language mechanism to achieve that learning. In Puerto Rico, even when there is a consensus on the utility of English for purposes of employment
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