Dear Parents of English Language Learner Students, I want to take a moment and welcome you to the U.S. I hope that this transition will bring you lots of opportunities, joy, and health. Immigration, with all the changes and necessary adaptations to the new environment, is a challenging journey, but it is doable. I am happy to be the teacher of your children and working hard to make sure they learn and enjoy their time in my classroom. I put an unprecedented amount of time in preparing special…
Multilingualism and The Dis-United States. The author illustrates two major reasons, which are reducing the cost of the federal spending and avoiding a series of severe constitutional crisis. First of all, the author states clearly in paragraph 11, “The federal government has spent over $100 million to study the effectiveness of bilingual education, only to discover that it is less effective at teaching English than English immersion programs are.” It means that even though the United States…
The student at Heritage High are not learning the materials to assist them in college courses such as proper English, spelling, punctuations and using their own English. Students are going to college and not doing as well as they should because of the teachers in high school. The English Department at Heritage High School need help to improve their English courses. Many teachers skip over the basic to other subjects. According to Graff, students have street smarts but they are not used regular…
because Arabic is my first language, not English, so when someone speaks to me in English the translation has to first take place in my head so that I can make sense of it. However, when they speak to me in Arabic the meaning goes straight to my heart. The significant event in my English literacy development took place when my family emigrated from Jerusalem to the United States. It affected my grammar, reading, and writing, all which…
required for high school for 2 whole years in order to get into a decent college. This is not right and there are so many reasons why. It is a waste of time, because it won’t benefit the student, and they could be taking other courses that would actually benefit them. Students shouldn’t be forced to take a foreign language for years, because, the immigrants should be forced to learn english, we probably won’t need it in the future, and it's not working very well as a course. Foreign language…
of 20 kids and there is a total of two teachers. The other teacher Ms. M has been at head start for 2 years and she is English speaking. In head start each room is filled with an English speaker and a Spanish speaker. The reason for this is because head start makes up 60 percent Latinos and 40 percent are Spanish speaking in their home language. The native language is half English and half Spanish speaking children. I teach them both languages in my classroom. The thing I like most about my job…
In English 1101 I have improved my writing skills. I learn things from grammar, about run on words and how to put my thoughts together and put them on paper. I learn how to research paper. I learn how to change my writing process based on the guidelines of the assignment that I was giving. I didn't do really well in that class because of my bad time managing skill, I didn't get a lot of work done on time. I have a lot of things going on in my life. After school I go straight to work, and after…
to add to this expertise again in English; they will just need to end up acquainted with the hints of English and to learn to separate sounds that are distinctive between their local language and English. Phonics can be tricky on the grounds that ELLs frequently experience issues segregating between comparable Phonics can be hazardous in light of the fact that ELLs regularly experience issues separating between comparable sounds, and on the grounds that the English language does not have a…
native language will not need to develop this skill again in English; they will only need to become familiar with the sounds of English and to learn to discriminate sounds that are different between their native language and English. Phonics can be problematic because ELLs often have difficulty discriminating between similar Phonics can be problematic because ELLs often have difficulty discriminating between similar sounds, and because the English language does not have a regular system of…
teaching (pedagogy) and his or her subject matter. Moreover, in “Supporting Young English Learners in the United States,” Barrow and Markman-Pithers allow the readers to embark on a unique journey—what it means to be an English language learner. Readers also get the opportunity to learn about different instructional approaches that he or she can implement in his or her classroom; hence, enabling him or her to meet needs of English…