Educations are important in everyday learning. As we ages, we learn new important methods in becoming a successful student. Sometimes as a bilingual student, it seems to become harder to achieve our academic goals. I am that student, who done extra English development program in order to become who I am today, but I still struggle. Elementary school is where my academics learning begins. It started from the day I enrolled in English Language Development Program.
My memories are a blurred, but I remembered the day I started Kindergarten with not much knowledge of the language English. I knew for a fact that I was the weakling of my entire class because most of them knew English and no one knew my language, so it became hard. Life in school
“Early start on language only accelerates as it goes along”(Kruger). This is true because English Language grew with me to determine where I was at.
When I first enrolled in that program with the teacher named Mrs. Jackie, I was scared and didn’t know what I had to do to improve my English. In my head, I thought we had to take tests every week to determined our knowledge of what we had done every week. Soon I learned that this program was going to be fun and our teacher was kind and amazing. This class was like any other class. We used practice books, did fun educational activities, and earn prizes for our achievement. A few times a week, I was taken out my normal class to learn academic English standards. I learned to pronounced vocabularies words, used them in sentence structure, and even do my homework in that program. I felt that this class helped me to become the same education level as my classmates. “A bilingual brain is not necessarily a smarter brain, but it is proving to be more flexible, more resourceful one”(Kluger). I wasn’t the smart one because I got extra help. It was my courage and interest to become more knowledge about English
I attended the BOCES Program for the Hearing Impaired for eleven years. I initially liked BOCES but later grew to dislike this program. The teachers often made me feel incapable of doing what the "normal kids" were doing. I wanted to do more challenging things! I remember that one time I asked one of my teachers if I could take a Spanish class. Her reply was "NO!". She didn't think I could handle it because I had a hearing loss. I was persistent and took the class anyway. I did very well. I proved her wrong. But above all, I proved to myself that if I wanted something enough, I could do it. It was a great feeling!
Because America is such a diverse country, public schools are faced with the challenge of providing students from all over the world with a quality education. As Chen points out “public schools have embraced the linguistic challenge presented by immigrant students” (¶1). Then, No Child Left Behind law was approved, and it required every public school should have an English Secondary Language (ESL) program that will provide the “academic support” for English Language Learners (ELLs). ELL parents are happy that their children are getting education help from the school, but it has raised the question of how successful are the ESL programs? Do ESL programs provide enough “academic support” to all ELL students? Do ESL programs have enough tools to help students learn English? Some ELL parents complain that ESL programs do not help their child learn English. A successful ESL program is not based solely on the test scores, but also the ability to connect parents, teachers, and students together to strengthen tools that will help ELL students to learn a new language in reading, writing, and speaking.
Over the past year I have grown as both a person and a writer. My writing has improved
Bilingual education allows for an emotionally safe transition. This program lets children communicate in their native tongue, while being exposed to a new language. It's hard enough to be "the new kid" in school. It is easy to imagine the difficulty children have not being able to communicate with anyone and not understanding what is going on around them. Many argue that children will use the bilingual classroom as a crutch and will never learn English because of it. In actuality, it has been proven that children learn English faster if they are taught in their native language first. The goal of bilingual education is for students to learn while not falling behind. Without bilingual education programs, children come i...
Finally, the experienced you faced in life are the only ones who make you improve in life. These three experiences have made me more powerful, more secure of my self. Now I’m in 12th grade and I have learn more and a better English, is not perfect, but, I understand more then before, and I can write better then in 8th and 9th grade, everything thanks to the friends who help me out, the teachers and my motive to make it possible, ignoring all the ignorant people who always have to think on you. I have learned that in this country for be someone is important to learn and speak English, but you always have to be positive and make that come true. My goal now is to speak, read, write, and understand more by putting more of my part so I can defend my self from everything.
Over the course of this class I feel like I have become a much better writer. When I go back and look at some of my Journal entries and assignments that I did at the beginning of the semester, I can’t help but tense up at some of the things I wrote. Sometimes the things I was writing didn’t flow well, or I might have even have missed glaring grammar mistakes.
As a second language learner I have never expected myself to be a perfect writer throughout the semester. Even If English was my first language still, I would not be a perfect writer. It is not about first or second language, it is about how well I understand the learning objectives. Then organizing and writing with my own ideas and putting them in my paper. I am going to be honest, I am not good at English subject and English subject is my strongest weakness than the other subjects. In this paper I will discuss and analyze my own writing, reflecting on the ways that my writing has improved throughout the semester.
From my experience, bilingual education was a disadvantage during my childhood. At the age of twelve, I was introduced into a bilingual classroom for the first time. The crowded classroom was a combination of seventh and eighth grade Spanish-speaking students, who ranged from the ages of twelve to fifteen. The idea of bilingual education was to help students who weren’t fluent in the English language. The main focus of bilingual education was to teach English and, at the same time, teach a very basic knowledge of the core curriculum subjects: Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences. Unfortunately, bilingual education had academic, psychological, and social disadvantages for me.
The topic of what happens to those that have, "never heard the good news of Jesus Christ" weighs extremely heavy on my heart. I work with Atheist, Muslim, Hindu and Pluralist in the technology field. Frequently I am attacked just for being a Christian. For a while it was scary to know that I have become a minority in my own country. Some how each time I am attacked I love these guys that much more. My Hindu friend really knew nothing about Jesus before he met me. At lunch one day he asked me about Christianity and I was able to share with him the good news. But for some reason he rebeled and believes the Bible is, "the greatest book of fiction ever created." If not for the revelation God provided about His Word in my second year of Bible school, I probably would be a pluralist myself. I really want everyone I share Jesus with to go to heaven and it use to be tempting to think God might make an exception. However, there is only
My ninth grade English class was what truly motivated and encouraged me to write, speak and talk in English. I had the best teacher I could ever ask for, he not only did his job as an English teacher, but he was sure everybody was giving their best at class, that every student was learning new vocabulary and that we knew how to use grammar properly; what made me appreciate him the most was that he taught us about culture, how the world works, how to be organized, the importance of an education and the benefits of living in a free country, every time I walked out of his class I never thought of it as an English class but a life lesson. There was something else that helped me a lot with the English, watching television with subtitles, I spent the whole ninth grade watching movies like Gladiator, The Last Samurai or Braveheart because we did not have cable and had an old TV with DVD player included and a friend of ours had lent us a pile of classic film DVDs. I read more than I ever imagined per day and that did not only help me with the language but also helped me learn to appreciate more the motion picture industry. By then end of ninth grade, I was already becoming an American, I knew the Star Spangled Banner anthem, I had friends with whom I only spoke English with, I celebrated Thanksgiving and loved the fireworks
Embassy Summer Academy assists students with building the abilities students need in order to succeed in life through intensive English classes combined with sports, the arts, and social interaction. Embassy Summer Academy endeavor to strengthen students’ self-reliance in a civilized and culturally diverse environment by providing students with carefully selected instructors and coaches. The Intensive English program analyzes students’ language knowledge and schedules programs tailored to their level of understanding. The program enhances students’ understanding of English grammar and tutors to speak and write more precisely. Moreover, the Intensive English program improves students’ vocabulary and aware students with study techniques in order to help students increase, remember, store, and retrieve new vocabulary. In addition, the program enhances each student’s ability to understand spoken English and to be understood speaking English. Students also learn about the pronunciation problems of speakers of their mother tongue, and practice speaking more accurately and more
When I first started school, I really didn’t know any English. It was hard because none of the kids knew what I was saying, and sometimes the teachers didn’t understand what I was saying. I was put in those ELL classes where they teach you English. The room they would take us to was full of pictures to teach us English, and they would make us sit on a red carpet and teach us how to read and write. When I would go back to regular class, I would have to try harder than the other students. I would have to study a little more and work a little harder with reading and writing if I wanted to be in the same level as the other kids in my class. when I got to third grade I took a test for my English and past it I didn’t have to go to does ELL classes anymore because I passed the test, and it felt great knowing that I wouldn’t have to take those classes no more.
Growing up in a household that didn’t speak fluent English hindered my ability to start learning at home before heading into elementary school. It later obstructed my ability to communicate with teachers and students whenever I needed help or when being anti-social for such a long time made me dread school every day just because
Language has pioneered many interracial relationships and historical milestones. Language is a necessity for basic communication and cultural diversity. Being multilingual is a skill proven influential to a successful future. Due to rapid globalization, countries all over the world are stressing the importance of learning a second, or even third, language. With the exception of time and lack of resources, adults have very few widely applicable disadvantages to learning multiple languages. However, language learning as a child presents more complications. Some of those include not having enough funding at the elementary school level to introduce a program for secondary language, academic overload for the youth, stress for both the parent and student parties, and the mixing of languages. Not all of these complications are true in any or all situations, however, and the absence of them provides multitudes of opportunity for future career and academic success. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the parents or the education legislation to decide whether they encourage the learning of a secondary language at the young age necessary for retention. “The general consensus is that it takes between five to seven years for an individual to achieve advanced fluency,” therefore the younger a child begins to learn, the more likely they are to benefit to the maximum potential (Robertson). Keeping the language learning in high school or beginning the process earlier is a greatly controversial discussion that is important to address because of the topic’s already lengthy suspension.
In 2009, teachers of a New Jersey school banned foreign languages and stated, “any language other than English will not be tolerated" (Debaron 1). This situation was soon no longer allowed. While over ten percent of the total adolescent education systems contain emergent bilinguals, a whopping sixty percent of those students are educated in only English (Bale). Maria Estela Brisk, a Boston College Education professor, believes, “schools has wasted much energy in the search for a "perfect" model and the best way to learn English” when they could just focus on proving “quality education” to every student in the system (1). Teacher’s main priority should consist of effectively teaching their students to prepare them for the future, but currently there are a lack of certified bilingual education teachers. When students are taught more in different ways, they can educationally benefit their cognitive abilities, involving the brain with “mathematics, problem solving, logic and memory”, can be improved to create an overall better student. Even by learning another language at a earlier age can contribute to __________. Learning another language will be