Right now, Pennsylvania does not have as many immigrants entering its borders. This could be a reason for fewer people learning a second language. There is not a need for it.
This may change as the country becomes more globalized and receives more immigrants. Hopefully, as time progresses, languages become more valued. I related with this article so much. I experienced exactly what you described when you talked about high school language programs.
To this day the only Spanish I know are for kitchen items. This was by no fault of the teacher. Sadly, as you said, no one thinks learning other languages is important in the U.
For example my school only offered two foreign languages. This made it so everyone took the easiest on, or the one with the least amount of homework. I am currently in Russian 2, but imagine if I was able to learn in high school, I would save so much money.
Take Europe for example. It is safe to bet If you are French, you also speak German. Here in the U. I do think language is important and think more emphasis needs to be placed on it. I loved this article topic, because I can definitely relate to this. I feel that it is extremely important for everyone to be educated in more than one language, especially in this day in age.
There is so much going on in the world today, and in the work force, that it is imperative to know at least two languages.
More and more jobs are beginning to require applicants who are bilingual. For my college specifically, communications students are required to take a certain number of foreign language credits, and reach a particular level of mastering the material. I currently take French, and have done so since seventh grade. If you asked me, even after six years of French classes to speak a sentence of French aloud, I would not be able to.
A thirty-two year study by Thomas and Collier from George Mason University indicated that students who had a bilingual education and that spoke multiple languages had greater achievements than their monolingual peers, especially in maths, reading and vocabulary. Children who learn a second and third language have better memories and are more cognitively creative than single language speaking counterparts.
Research has indicated that bilingual people are usually better at remembering names, directions and items than those who speak one language. A recent study has shown that people who speak more than one language develop dementia symptoms an average of five years later and are able to cope with a greater level of brain dysfunction than their monolingual counterparts.
In an interconnected and rapidly changing world there is an increased need for a multilingual workforce and the ability to conduct business in more than one language is becoming more critical. Bilingual people often hold higher positions and earn better incomes than their monolingual counterparts in the same industry. The exposure to two languages assists students in developing an appreciation for the differences in cultures.
Students are able to engage with languages through folk tales, songs, idioms and other primary sources of information without requiring translation leading to more meaningful cultural exchanges. The executive function is a command system that directs the attention processes that we use for planning, solving problems and performing other mentally demanding tasks. Bilingual people are better able to sort out relevant information from irrelevant information, meaning they can focus better and be more effective thinkers and decision-makers.
Our unique bilingual international education provides our students with a unique international perspective. Ready to find out more? Students enrolled in these programs are not taught non-language related subjects in their native language. They will continue to be taught these subjects in a second language. This way, students will only receive grammar and language instruction in their native language, so it can be later applied to their foreign language instruction.
Late-Exit or Developmental Bilingual Education. Students are taught in their native language for a period of time, while simultaneously they are learning a new language.
This way, students improve literacy in their first language, which makes it possible for them to later apply this knowledge to the foreign language instruction they're receiving. Opponents of bilingual education in the classroom believe that the bilingual education programs cost too much and students living and educated in the United States should learn English—the lingua franca of American culture and society.
Even though congress has yet to pass a bill recognizing English as the national language in the United States, a large number of people, groups and organizations argue that using and teaching 'foreign' languages as secondary languages in the public school system is not only out of sink with the tradition of using English but represents a real threat to the stability, growth and sovereignty of the United States.
Those in favor of bilingual education in America's schools, argue just the opposite. Proponents of bilingual education believe that when non-English speaking students are educated in both their native language and English, they're ability to learn and speak English is greatly enhanced; they learn English in a more efficient manner and they're able to continue learning core subjects math, history, science, etc.
Bilingual education programs are in fact more expensive than English language only programs. However, does the cost of running such programs outway the benefit they provide? Bilingual education appears to be the most effective way to teach students whose dominant, or native, language isn't English.
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